Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new investments in 33 states to support the production and usage of advanced biofuels. Vilsack highlighted these projects as ways the Obama Administration is working to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil by creating alternative energy sources and promoting economic development and job creation.
“The Obama Administration is working aggressively to bring greater energy independence to all of America by promoting the production of renewable energy in rural communities,” said Vilsack. “This funding will help the nation’s advanced biofuel industry produce more fuel from sustainable rural resources, and in doing so create jobs, a new revenue stream for agriculture producers and stimulate rural economies across the nation.”
Authorized under Section 9005 of the Farm Bill, the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels authorizes payments to eligible producers to expand production of advanced biofuels. Payments are based on the amount of advanced biofuels a recipient produces from renewable biomass, other than corn kernel starch. Eligible examples include biofuels derived from cellulose, crop residue, animal, food and yard waste material, biogas (landfill and sewage waste treatment gas), vegetable oil and animal fat.
The producer payments are intended to provide a financial incentive to biorefineries – a necessary step towards meeting the nation’s renewable energy needs. The following is a list of biofuels producers that have received funding under USDA’s Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels. Recipients of payments less than $500 are not listed.
Alabama
• Greenlight Biofuels, LLC; $13,211.40
Arkansas
• Futurefuel Chemical Company; $384,227.34
• Pinnacle Biofuels, Inc.; $14,165.71
Arizona
• Pinal Energy, LLC; $943,335.07
California
• Imperial Western Products, Inc.; $38,865.18
• American Biodiesel, Inc.; $6,753.89
• Yokayo Biofuels, Inc.; $5,859.88
• New Leaf Biofuel, LLC; $4,432.73
• Energy Alternative Solutions, Inc.; $3,010.99
• Imperial Valley Biodiesel, LLC; $1,410.26
Florida
• Agri-Source Fuels, LLC; $5,009.97
• G2 Energy, LLC; $1,518.14
• Bio Fuel Consultants of North America; $1,413.92
Georgia
• Nittany Biodiesel; $138,905.11
• U.S. Biofuels Inc.; $74,906.71
Hawaii
• Pacific Biodiesel, Inc.; $6,104.86
Iowa
• Renewable Energy Group, Inc.; $695,014.53
• Western Iowa Energy; $210,509.52
• Western Dubuque Biodiesel, LLC.; $178,926.98
• Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC.; $152,758.89
• Central Iowa Energy, LLC; $80,571.13
• Sioux Biochemical, Inc.; $9,847.05
• Maple River Energy, LLC; $6,871.08
