US DoE and EPA announce funding to support advanced biofuel projects

The US Department of Energy (DoE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $6 million (€5.8 million) in funding for three projects that will advance biofuel development.
The projects are located in New York, California and New Hampshire.
Funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the projects will support research to improve performance and reduce costs of high-impact biofuel production technologies; scale up production systems with industry; and support the US bioeconomy.
Located in three states, these projects will support DoE’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge goals by developing biofuel technologies that use sustainable biomass and waste feedstocks.
The projects will provide industry with new technologies to meet EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Programme requirements to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and expand the nation’s renewable fuels sector, while reducing reliance on imported transportation fuel, heating oil, and jet fuel.
This funding will address the development of advanced biofuels through the topic area of pre-pilot scale up of integrated biorefinery technologies.
Projects that have completed work around Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 and are ready to move to TRL 4-5, piloting a single process step, prior to TRL 6 integrated piloting. Feedstocks will align with the RFS Programme’s definition for feedstocks that could be used for advanced biofuels.