Department of Energy Announces $800 Million in Funding to Biofuels

By Chris de Morsella on May 6, 2009 Comments Off on Department of Energy Announces $800 Million in Funding to Biofuels advanced biofuels, algal biofuel, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, biofuel, biofuel catalyst, biofuel production, biofuel research, bioproducts, biorefineries, Brooke Coleman, combined heat and power systems, Corn Ethanol, DOE, DOE biomass program, E85, Energy Returned on Energy Invested, Energy Secretary Chu, ERoEI, ethanol, ethanol research, flex-fuel vehicles, fossil fuels, fuel-producing microbes, Funding Opportunity Announcement, global warming, green energy economy, Integrated Biorefinery Technologies, New Fuels Alliance, Office of Science Bioenergy Research Center, Renewable Fuel Standards, Steven Chu, US Department of Energy

US Department of Energy Secretary Chu announced plans to provide nearly $800 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act targeted towards advancing biofuels research and development and for commercial-scale biorefinery demonstration projects. The $786.5 million in Recovery Act funding a mix of new funding opportunities and additional funding for existing projects, will be allocated over four main areas. Integrated pilot- and demonstration-scale biorefineries projects are to receive the bulk of the funding with the remainder going to commercial-scale biorefinery projects, fundamental research in key areas to advance cutting-edge conversion technologies, including generating more desirable catalysts, fuel-producing microbes, and feedstocks and to ethanol research.