Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the successful projects that will receive almost $3m in funding from the 2011 Forest Service Woody Biomass Utilization Grant program. This year the program objective was to fund advanced engineering studies for woody biomass to energy projects.
Nationally 17 projects were selected for funding, including 3 from California, from a total of 34 submitted. The successful projects are listed below and locations are shown on the map.
|
Applicant |
City |
State |
Grant Amount |
|
Matanuska-Susitna Borough |
Palmer, |
AK |
$ 80,000 |
|
Placer County |
Kings Beach, |
CA |
$ 50,000 |
|
Kiara Solar |
Anderson, |
CA |
$ 250,000 |
|
Trinity River Lumber |
Weaverville, |
CA |
$ 250,000 |
|
Community Power Corporation |
Littleton, |
CO |
$ 125,000 |
|
Idaho Forest Group |
Coeur d'Alene, |
ID |
$ 135,000 |
|
Yellowstone Power |
Emmet, |
ID |
$ 250,000 |
|
EcoPower Generation, LLC |
Lexington, |
KY |
$ 250,000 |
|
Stoltze Land & Lumber |
Columbia Falls, |
MT |
$ 190,720 |
|
Pyramid Mountain Lumber, Inc. |
Seeley Lake, |
MT |
$ 202,727 |
|
University of Montana |
Missoula, |
MT |
$ 250,000 |
|
Burrows Paper Corporation |
Little Falls, |
NY |
$ 250,000 |
|
New York Power Authority |
White Plains, |
NY |
$ 250,000 |
|
City of Vernonia |
Vernonia, |
OR |
$ 25,000 |
|
ColPac Quinault Indian Nation |
Montesano, |
WA |
$ 50,000 |
|
Thilmany LLC |
Kaukauna, |
WI |
$ 132,400 |
|
University of Wisconsin--Superior |
Superior, |
WI |
$ 250,000 |
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The table below shows the split of the grant money between the 9 Forest Service regions. California is Region 5 and came in the top 3 regions due to the great applications that were submitted. We would like to congratulate the successful California applicants (Trinity River Lumber, Placer County and Kiara Solar).
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