Energy Dept., USDA Award $24 Million in Biofuels and Bioenergy Research Grants
By Scott Doggett November 13, 2009
The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy today announced $24 million in research-and-development grants for biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products.
Of the $24.4 million, the Energy Department plans to invest up to $4.9 million with the USDA contributing up to $19.5 million.
The grant recipients announced today will contribute a minimum of 20 percent of matching funds for R&D projects and 50 percent of matching funds for demonstration projects.
Awardees include:
- Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, CO) up to $1,780,862: to develop a yeast fermentation organism that can cost-effectively convert cellulosic-derived sugars into isobutanol, a second generation biofuel/biobased product.
- Exelus, Inc. (Livingston, NJ) up to $1,200,000: to develop a biomass-to-gasoline technology that represents a fundamental shift in process chemistry and overall approach to creating biofuels.
- Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) up to $933,883: to develop an analysis of the global impacts of second generation biofuels in the context of other energy technologies and alternative economic and climate change policy options.
- University of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN) up to, $2,715,007: to assess the environmental sustainability and capacity of forest-based biofuel feedstocks within the Lake States region.
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