The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded cellulosic ethanol grants to help with the construction of cellulosic ethanol biorefineries.
The Renewable Fuels Association released the full list of grant recipients.
Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas, LLC of Chesterfield, Missouri, up to $76 million for a
proposed plant in Kansas to use 700 tons per day of corn stover, wheat straw, milo stubble, switchgrass, and other feedstocks.
ALICO, Inc. of LaBelle, Florida, up to $33 million for a proposed plant to 770 tons per day of yard, wood, and vegetative wastes and eventually energycane.
BlueFire Ethanol, Inc. of Irvine, California, up to $40 million for a proposed plant in Southern California to use 700 tons per day of sorted green waste and wood waste from landfills.
Broin Companies of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, up to $80 million for a plant in Iowa to use 700 tons per day of agricultural residues including wheat straw, barley straw, corn stover, switchgrass, and rice straw as feedstocks.
Iogen Biorefinery Partners, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, up to $80 million for a proposed plant in Shelley, Idaho, near Idaho Falls tol use 700 tons per day of agricultural residues including wheat straw, barley straw, corn stover, switchgrass, and rice straw as feedstocks.
Range Fuels (formerly Kergy Inc.) of Broomfield, Colorado, up to $76 million for a proposed plant in Soperton (Treutlen County), Georgia to use 1,200 tons per day of wood residues and wood based energy crops.
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“I think it’s a step in the right direction,” Petrus said after the vote. “It shows Arkansas is serious about doing this.”
Fulton, Missouri… home of Westminster College, which is home of Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech… could soon be home to Missouri’s newest biodiesel plant. The city’s council has approved a plan to have a 10-million-gallon-a-year refinery on a parcel of land owned by the city.
Cherry says it is a precision-timed catalytic glow plug, which he calls a “Smart Plug,” with several international patents pending that makes the unusual mix of fuel and water possible. In fact, he says the engines have more torque and horsepower, they run cooler, have lower emissions, and of course, ethanol and biodiesel are easier to produce and easier on the environment. 
Cherry recently hit the road with his water and ethanol and diesel powered vehicles and stopped in South Dakota to show off his new technology. He says most people were excited about his invention. “Comments like ‘Wow!’ or ‘This does better than my truck!’ ” Cherry says people were also impressed with the acceleration and the actually pleasant aroma from the exhaust. And he adds, despite some bitterly cold temperatures when he was in South Dakota, there was no danger of the water-ethanol mixture freezing since it has a slush point of 100 degrees below zero.
Top state officials will keynote the 
Brueggeman said biodiesel fuels can be made from oils derived from Montana’s farm crops. By using these homegrown, renewable energy resources, he said, Montana could help curb the country’s dependency on foreign oil. 
In what might seem like a bit of an ironic twist, oil giant Chevron is getting into the biodiesel business. The California-based company has a 22% share of a 20-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel refinery set to open next month in oil-central Galveston. The