Pork producers interested in submitting a proposal should do so by April 15. Progress Energy expects to award contracts by Oct. 1.
The state utilities commission ordered suppliers to work together to meet the statewide requirement to produce .07% of the energy they sell from swine waste by 2012 and .14% by 2015.
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