Industry input sought by government to advance biofuels for military
Farm and Ranch September 2, 2011 The Secretaries of Agriculture, Energy and the U.S. Navy this week announced the next step in the creation of a public-private partnership to develop drop-in advanced biofuels. Drop-in fuels being those that can replace existing fuels without changes to distribution networks or engines. The main objective of this partnership is the construction or retrofit of several domestic commercial or pre-commercial scale advanced drop-in biofuel refineries. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says this next step is a Request for Information from industry. Mabus: “This request for information is industry‘s first chance to tell us what sort of technology, what sort of financing, what sort of geographical dispersion, what sort of job creation they would envision. And it is the first in a long series of negotiations and conversations and dialogue between government and industry so that we can get this going.” Earlier this month the Agriculture and Energy departments and the Navy announced an investment in the private sector of up to 510 million dollars during the next three years to produce advanced drop-in aviation and marine biofuels. You can learn more about this information request at FedBizOpps.Gov I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report. ?
