Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:49 -0800 (PST) From: Rob Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Grants under the Biomass Research and Development Initiative To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Certainly someone in this group will bite on this. How about grants from $200,000 to $2M directed toward innovation. This years' focus is on development and demonstration projects that lead to greater commercialization. Excerpts below - read full announcements at website: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/USDA/NRCS/2890/67-3A75-5-22/Attachments.html#upload4211 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) jointly announce the availability of fiscal year 2005 (FY05) funds and solicit applications for financial assistance addressing research, development, and demonstration of biomass based products, bioenergy, biofuels, biopower, and related processes. This funding opportunity, herein referred to as the “solicitation,” is intended to promote greater innovation and development related to biomass, and to support Federal policy calling for greater use of biomass-based products, feedstock production, and processing and conversion." "2. General Information USDA and DOE are seeking applications to address four specific Technical Topic Areas as set out below. The agency supporting each Topic is indicated, and Topic Areas are discussed in greater detail in Appendix B. The Topics listed here are the only eligible topic areas under this solicitation. Each individual application must respond to only one of the four Technical Topic Areas. However, an applicant may submit multiple, unique applications and thus respond to multiple topics. The Technical Topic Areas are: Topic-1: Feedstock Development and Production Topic-2: Biobased Products Development and Environmental and Economic erformance Topic-3: Integrated Resource Management and Biomass Use Topic-4: Incentive Analysis for Commercialization" "1 The primary applicant can be a private sector entity, an institution of higher education, a national laboratory, a Federal research agency, a state research agency, a non-profit organization, or a consortium of two or more of the listed entities. Consortia are encouraged in order to bring important capabilities together to best achieve the desired innovation on biomass projects. Institutions of higher education include colleges and universities beyond the secondary education level. Private sector entities include companies, corporations, farms, ranches, cooperatives, and others that compete in the marketplace." "Pre-applications must be received no later than 6:00 p.m., eastern standard time, on February 15, 2005. All applicants are requested to use an express mail service (e.g., Fed-Ex, USPS, UPS, or other) to submit their pre-applications. No hand-delivered, e-mail, or Fax pre-applications will be accepted. " --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, From the Biomass Research and Development Initiative website: Successful Deployment of Biomass Technologies, Jan. 5th, 2005 article: http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/news/DisplayRecentArticle.asp?idarticle=164 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
