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USDA, DOE Announce Biofuels Research Grants
10/11/2006
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USDA and the Dept. of Energy today announced nearly $17.5 million for 17 biomass research, development and demonstration projects, to help break our nation's addiction to oil. The funding was announced at the General Session at Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance, a jointly hosted USDA-DOE conference aimed at furthering President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI).
The AEI seeks to accelerate the commercialization of clean, affordable alternative and renewable sources of energy by changing the way we power our cars, homes and businesses.
Grants announced today are intended to develop technologies necessary to help make bio-based fuels cost-competitive with fossil fuels in the commercial market. The projects selected will carry out research, development and demonstrations on biobased products, bioenergy, biofuels, and biopower. Of the $17,492,466 announced today, $12,784,733 is funded by USDA (FY'06) and $4,707,733 is funded by DOE (FY'06-'08). DOE funds go to three projects developing cellulosic biomass.
USDA will provide funding to address such topics as feedstock production and product diversification. Under the Biomass Research and Development Initiative, a joint USDA-DOE effort established in 2000 and reauthorized in the comprehensive Energy Policy Act of 2005, award projects must demonstrate collaboration among experts in the field of biomass. The Initiative aims to enhance creative approaches in developing next generation advanced technologies; and promote research partnerships among colleges, universities, national laboratories, federal and state research agencies and the private sector.
10/11/2006
advertisement
AgWeb.com Editors
USDA and the Dept. of Energy today announced nearly $17.5 million for 17 biomass research, development and demonstration projects, to help break our nation's addiction to oil. The funding was announced at the General Session at Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance, a jointly hosted USDA-DOE conference aimed at furthering President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI).
The AEI seeks to accelerate the commercialization of clean, affordable alternative and renewable sources of energy by changing the way we power our cars, homes and businesses.
Grants announced today are intended to develop technologies necessary to help make bio-based fuels cost-competitive with fossil fuels in the commercial market. The projects selected will carry out research, development and demonstrations on biobased products, bioenergy, biofuels, and biopower. Of the $17,492,466 announced today, $12,784,733 is funded by USDA (FY'06) and $4,707,733 is funded by DOE (FY'06-'08). DOE funds go to three projects developing cellulosic biomass.
USDA will provide funding to address such topics as feedstock production and product diversification. Under the Biomass Research and Development Initiative, a joint USDA-DOE effort established in 2000 and reauthorized in the comprehensive Energy Policy Act of 2005, award projects must demonstrate collaboration among experts in the field of biomass. The Initiative aims to enhance creative approaches in developing next generation advanced technologies; and promote research partnerships among colleges, universities, national laboratories, federal and state research agencies and the private sector.
