Constellation Energy and Chromatin Announce Partnership to Test Sorghum Biomass as Fuel to Generate Power

The Wall Street Journal: Market Watch
Sept. 21, 2011, 8:00 a.m. EDT

California Power Plants to Test Closed-Loop Biomass as Fuel

EL CENTRO, Calif., Sep 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Constellation Energy, through two of its subsidiaries, and Chromatin Inc., a supplier of biomass feedstock for energy producers, today announced that they had signed a memorandum of understanding that could supplement current fuels at two California power plants with a sustainable supply of renewable biomass grown specifically for use as fuel in the plants.

In anticipation of this, Chromatin is growing three fields of biomass sorghum, a non-food crop that has a high energy content, is adapted to marginal lands, and requires less than half the water and chemicals of field crops such as corn or sugar cane.

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