DOE Selects Six Cellulosic Ethanol Plants for Up to $385 Million in Federal Funding
Funding to help bring cellulosic ethanol to market and help revolutionize the industry
28 February 2007

On 28 February 2007 in Washington DC, US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Samuel W. Bodman, announced that DOE will invest up to $385 million for six biorefinery projects over the next four years. When fully operational, the biorefineries are expected to produce more than 130 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year. This production will help further President Bush’s goal of making cellulosic ethanol cost-competitive with gasoline by 2012 and, along with increased automobile fuel efficiency, reduce America's gasoline consumption by 20 percent in ten years.

Projects selected:

• Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas, LLC of Chesterfield, Missouri, up to $76 million.
• ALICO, Inc. of LaBelle, Florida, up to $33 million.
• BlueFire Ethanol, Inc. of Irvine, California, up to $40 million.
• Broin Companies of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, up to $80 million.
• Iogen Biorefinery Partners, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, up to $80 million.
• Range Fuels (formerly Kergy Inc.) of Broomfield, Colorado, up to $76 million.

For more information see:

www.energy.gov/news/4827.htm