Glenn Farris graduated from the University of Alabama in 1978. He began his career at Dean Witter where he specialized in municipal bonds and finance. In February, 1987, Mr. Farris held the first meeting concerning the financing of the acquisition of the patents for the LIVG (low-inlet velocity gasification) process from Battelle Memorial Institute. The SilvaGas® technology was developed at the Battelle labs in Columbus, Ohio, over the course of several years with approximately $20,000,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Farris was able to successfully negotiate and close the acquisition of the patents to the SilvaGas® process, then known as the LIVG, from Battelle with a newly formed company, BG Technologies, Inc. The next four years were spent in preparation for the LIVG process for commercial demonstration. In order to develop a commercial scale unit for demonstration, Mr. Farris acquired additional funding from Mr. John Williams, Chairman of the Board of Post Properties, Inc. A new Company was formed Future Energy Resources Corporation (FERCO) the predecessor of FERCO Enterprises. BG Technologies, Inc. was dissolved and all assets (the LIVG patents) were transferred to FERCO in September 1992.

At this point, all efforts were placed on locating a site suitable for development of a commercial size biomass gasification plant using the LIVG process owned by FERCO Enterprises. Led by Mr. Farris, a team consisting of personnel from FERCO Enterprises, U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory was formed with the mission to locate such a site. In 1993, a site was located at the McNeil Generating Facility in Burlington, Vermont.
At this time Mr. Farris joined a team consisting of personnel from the engineering and construction firm NEPCO (a division of Zurn Industries), FERCO, and the owners of the McNeil station. Over the next two years Mr. Farris managed all facets of the design, engineering, and construction of the project. This project was financed in a public / private partnership with the U. S. DOE.

Mr. Farris left FERCO in November of 2000 and in late 2001 formed Biomass Gas & Electric, LLC (BG&E) to begin development and construction of commercially viable plants under a licensing agreement with FERCO Enterprises, the predessessor of FERCO.

Mr. Farris recognized the value of a new technology well in advance of its general acceptance. Mr. Farris is a recognized expert in the industry, having been a featured speaker and presenter of technical papers at industry conferences. He is an expert in industry contract and financing negotiations. He has built the only facility of this type in the world.