Chromatin secures $5.7m from US DOE

NewEnergyWorldNetwork.com
4 Jan 2012

US bioenergy feedstock supplier Chromatin has won a $5.7m contract as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) initiative.

The money will fund a three-year development programme to manufacture new variants of sweet sorghum for use as an energy-rich, low cost feedstock for transportation biofuels.

Dave Jessen, chief technology officer for Chromatin, said, ‘Building on our success deploying our proprietary technology that can add multiple sets of genes to sorghum, we are able to produce sorghum varieties that meet the specific needs of renewable-energy producers. In collaboration with academic and industry experts, this award will accelerate Chromatin’s optimisation of sorghum as a feedstock for drop-in biofuels and energy-rich replacements for coal and petroleum.’

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