Thanks in part to a $25 million federal grant, Colorado-based biorefiner Zeachem broke ground in early June on a cellulosic ethanol demo plant in eastern Oregon near Boardman. Company officials say the facility will produce 250,000 gallons of ethanol annually, plus ethyl acetate. The plant is using poplar fiber from Greenwood Resources irrigated fiber farms [...]
Colorado Moves On Biomass Ventures
Following up on a previous post announcing the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture funding 30 projects in 14 states totaling $57 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for Wood-To-Energy and biomass utilization, Colorado initiatives recently received $250,000 each to: Help convert wood collected during wildfire- and pine-beetle mitigation efforts for a prison boiler [...]