Bioenergy Research Gets US Department of Energy Cash Injection of $125 million
Researchers from the University California Davis will partner in a new $125 million bioenergy research centre funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE).
Bioenergy has received a cash boost from government in the USA.
The chosen researchers are said to be experts at turning plants (bio-crops) into energy for transportation, buildings and industry.
The funds will establish and support the partnership of three national laboratories and three research universities in Northern California, including UC Davis, to be known as the federal Energy Department’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI).
The JBEI partners are UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Start-up leadership for the project will come from the Berkeley Lab.
“The DOE JBEI will be organized like a biotech startup company, with very focused research objectives, and a structure to enable it to quickly pursue promising scientific and technological developments,”
said Keasling Jay Keasling, director of Berkeley Lab’s Physical Biosciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor of chemical engineering, who will be the chief executive officer for Northern California’s new bioenergy research institute. More…
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