India and US Unite for Biofuel Research
The US-DOE has announced that, for an initiative entitled Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC), which aims at the development of alternative energy throughout South Asia, the University of Florida and the Indian government will enter into a research collaboration to work on a biofuel project. The project will focus on the benefits of biofuels and the production of biofuels from non-food crops. DOE has awarded a $125 million for the five year project. The project will also look into the development of solar energy, apart from biofuels. NREL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will lead the biofuel part of the show.
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology will join hands with the researchers from UoF and other universities in the US to work on biofuels. This project will focus on the development of different types of fuels from algae and also on the dedicated energy crops plantation. Hope this collaboration will pave way for the new understanding concerning biofuel and how it could play into both countries’ plans for sustainability and alternative energy.
