USDA, DOE Announce $18 MILLION Biofuel Grant Initiative

Avatar for Matt Hopkins By Andrea Klosterman Harris|11 June 2007

The $18 million solicitation [up to $14 million from USDA and up to $4 from DOE(FY’07)] will fund projects in the following four categories (with share of overall funding): the development of technologies to convert cellulosic biomass into intermediaries for biobased fuels (45 percent); product diversification (30 percent); feedstock production (20 percent); and analysis for strategic guidance (5 percent).

Since 2002, USDA has awarded $58.1 million in grants to 55 projects in 27 states and the District of Columbia under the Biomass Research and Development Initiative. Since the beginning of 2007, DOE has announced nearly $1 billion in funding for biofuels R&D.

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For more information on these grant solicitations, visit: www.grants.gov .

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