U.S. Department of Energy seeks demonstration projects for large-scale biofuel production

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Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a call for proposals to allocate $200 million over a six-year period from fiscal year 2009 to fiscal year 2014 to fund large-scale projects for the production of biofuels, using algae as a raw material to manufacture high-grade biobutanol, green gasoline, and other innovative biofuels. The Department of Energy will implement Obama’s comprehensive energy strategy for **energy, the economy, and** by reducing the United States’ dependence on foreign oil and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. While actively encouraging the development and increased use of biofuels, the U.S. Department of Energy will continue to increase funding for research and development of advanced biofuel production technologies. There are two requirements for applying for federal **funded demonstration projects for large-scale biofuel production: one is that the project must be at an experimental scale. The daily processing capacity of raw materials must be no less than 1 thousand tons, and the funding provided by the federal government shall not exceed 70% of the total project cost ； The second is large-scale demonstration projects. The daily processing capacity of raw materials must be no less than 50 dry tons, with the enterprise and the federal ** each contributing 50% of the total project cost.