{"id":1063,"date":"2009-05-13T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2009-05-13T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T05:22:00","slug":"gpre-and-bioprocessalgae-llc-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/gpre-and-bioprocessalgae-llc-complete.html","title":{"rendered":"GPRE and Bioprocessalgae LLC Complete $2.1 Million Grant for Algae Pilot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Press release:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc.  and BioProcessAlgae LLC have executed a grant award agreement with the Iowa Office of Energy Independence for a $2.1 million research and development grant from the Iowa Power Fund to build an algae pilot project at Green Plains\u2019 ethanol plant in Shenandoah, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Power Fund grant provides matching funds to install a series of photobioreactor units at Green Plains\u2019 Shenandoah ethanol plant. Water, heat and carbon dioxide will be recycled from the ethanol manufacturing process to support continuous algae production. The grant provides funding through the end of the first quarter of calendar year 2010 with installation of the pilot project expected in the third quarter of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBioProcessAlgae and its technology partners have made significant progress in the engineering, design and development of photobioreactor systems for algae production,\u201d said Kevin Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of BioProcessAlgae. \u201cThe project will give us the opportunity to test our systems on a larger scale. This is a very important step toward system commercialization of algae technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Shenandoah algae project is an opportunity to help the environment, the ethanol industry and the Iowa economy,\u201d Becker stated. \u201cGreen Plains is committed to the advancement of next generation technologies and we appreciate the vision and assistance of Iowa Governor Chet Culver and the Iowa Office of Energy Independence in the development of this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpreinc.com\/press\/99\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related blogs:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/iowa-approves-2-million-for-algae-fuel.html\" title=\"permanent link\"><span style=\"color:#990000;\">Iowa Approves $2 Million for Algae Fuel Project<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/iowa-approves-2-million-for-algae-fuel.html\"><span class=\"item-action\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press release: Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. and BioProcessAlgae LLC have executed a grant award agreement with the Iowa Office of Energy Independence for a $2.1 million research and development grant from the Iowa Power Fund to build an algae pilot project at Green Plains\u2019 ethanol plant in Shenandoah, Iowa. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-energy-companies","category-algae-photobioreactor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}