DOE increases funding request for biomass, biorefinery activities

Ethanol Producer Magazine
By Erin Voegele February 15, 2012

The U.S. DOE has released information detailing President Barack Obama’s $27.2 billion Fiscal Year 2013 budget requested for the department. According to the DOE, nearly $2.34 billion, or 8.61 percent of the total budget, would support energy efficiency and renewable energy activities and projects.

“The United States is competing in a global race for the clean energy jobs of the future,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “The choice we face as a nation is simple: do we want the clean energy technologies of tomorrow to be invented in America by American innovators, made by American workers and sold around the world, or do we want to concede those jobs to our competitors? We can and must compete for those jobs. This budget request includes responsible investments in an American economy that is built to last.”

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