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USDA announces availability of $181M to support development of advanced biofuels projects

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Eligible entities include Indian tribes, State or local governments, corporations, farmer co-ops, agricultural producer associations, higher education institutions, rural electric co-ops, public power entities or consortiums of any of the above. Sapphire Energy’s “Green Crude Farm” in Columbus, N.M.,

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DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation (Columbus, OH) up to $1,800,000: to demonstrate, at scale, the operation of a dry fermentation system that uses pre- and post-consumer food wastes from supermarkets and restaurants, waste sawdust, grass, leaves, stumps and other forms of wood waste to produce biogas, heat, and electrical power.

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Rentech Planning to Build Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Electric Power Plant in California

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a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. Rentech has entered into a licensing agreement with SilvaGas Corporation for biomass gasification technology for the Rialto facility. Click to enlarge.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Schlumberger Carbon Services , Columbus, Ohio. West Virginia University Research Corporation , Morgantown, W.V. Battelle Memorial Institute , Columbus, Ohio. Ideally, this will be followed by long-term deployment at large-scale operating CO 2 storage projects. Headwaters Clean Carbon Services , Lawrenceville, N.J.

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DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees), and urban wood wastes. of Columbus, Ohio (up to $4.9 Feedstocks or combinations of feedstocks that were considered include: agricultural residues, energy crops (e.g., switchgrass, miscanthus, energycane, sorghum, poplar, willow), forest resources (e.g.,

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