FDC Enterprise, Abengoa, Mendel, Show Me Energy and Alliant Energy among winners of DOE feedstock systems grant

In Ohio, the U.S DOE announced that FDC Enterprises of Columbus, became one of five winners to share in a $21 million grant to develop supply systems to handle and deliver feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production. According to DOE’s press release, the selected grant winners represented, “the best projects to stimulate the design and demonstration of a comprehensive system to handle the harvesting, collection, preprocessing, transport, and storage of sufficient volumes of sustainably produced feedstock.”

Project participants in the FDC team included: Abengoa Bioenergy, Kansas Bioscience Authority, Mendel Bioenergy, Kansas State University, Idaho National Laboratory University, Show Me Energy and Alliant Energy.

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