Canada lifts green funding
Federal and provincial funds have been injected in ethanol facilities and research projects in Canada.
British Columbia has pledged more than $32.6 million (€24.5 million) to commercialise approximately $200 million in provincial renewable energy technology projects.
The Innovative Clean Energy Fund has awarded more than $22.6 million to 19 projects and another $10 million in provincial funding will support eight projects to develop cellulosic ethanol, biodiesel, and biofuel technologies that demonstrate low greenhouse gas emissions.
The province has mandated that by 2010 petrol and diesel used in British Columbia must contain a minimum of 5% renewable fuel.
Lignol Innovations was awarded $3.4 million to produce cellulosic ethanol and other products using forestry residues indigenous to the province, leading to the creation of an engineering design package for a commercial biorefinery within the province.
The company also has received $1.82 million from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.
Other companies receiving funding include: Northwind Ethanol, which obtained $1.24 million to build a 500,000 gallon woody biomass-to-ethanol demonstration-scale facility; and Pure Power Global which received $880,000 to design and build a biorefinery in Quesnel that will convert 10 tonnes per day of woody biomass into cellulosic ethanol, lignins and xylose.
Canada’s ecoENERGY for Biofuels programme, which supports the production of renewable alternatives to petrol and diesel, recently awarded Permolex Red Deer, Alberta, ethanol production facility up to $23.2 million.
Canada’s Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program is investing $12 million in the Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative research network. Triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye, contains high yielding potential with disease and environmental tolerance.
British Columbia has pledged more than $32.6 million (€24.5 million) to commercialise approximately $200 million in provincial renewable energy technology projects.
The Innovative Clean Energy Fund has awarded more than $22.6 million to 19 projects and another $10 million in provincial funding will support eight projects to develop cellulosic ethanol, biodiesel, and biofuel technologies that demonstrate low greenhouse gas emissions.
The province has mandated that by 2010 petrol and diesel used in British Columbia must contain a minimum of 5% renewable fuel.
Lignol Innovations was awarded $3.4 million to produce cellulosic ethanol and other products using forestry residues indigenous to the province, leading to the creation of an engineering design package for a commercial biorefinery within the province.
The company also has received $1.82 million from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.
Other companies receiving funding include: Northwind Ethanol, which obtained $1.24 million to build a 500,000 gallon woody biomass-to-ethanol demonstration-scale facility; and Pure Power Global which received $880,000 to design and build a biorefinery in Quesnel that will convert 10 tonnes per day of woody biomass into cellulosic ethanol, lignins and xylose.
Canada’s ecoENERGY for Biofuels programme, which supports the production of renewable alternatives to petrol and diesel, recently awarded Permolex Red Deer, Alberta, ethanol production facility up to $23.2 million.
Canada’s Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program is investing $12 million in the Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative research network. Triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye, contains high yielding potential with disease and environmental tolerance.
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