4 December 2009-- The departments of Energy and Agriculture awarded up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to 19 integrated biorefinery projects in 15 states.
Up to $483 million of the funds will go to 14 pilot-scale and four demonstration-scale biorefinery projects. The remaining $81 million will go to accelerating the construction of a project that previously received funding. The projects will be matched with more than $700 million in private and non-federal cost-share funds for a total of $1.3 billion in investment.
The projects will validate refining technologies and produce advanced biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts using biomass feedstocks at the pilot, demonstration and full commercial scale.
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