{"id":1302,"date":"2009-12-21T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2009-12-21T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:57:00","slug":"sapphire-energy-receives-545-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/sapphire-energy-receives-545-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Sapphire Energy Receives $54.5 million Through the Biorefinery Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack have announced the selection of 19 integrated bio-refinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.<\/p>\n<p>California-based Sapphire Energy will receive a non-ARRA loan guarantee for up to $54.5 million through the Biorefinery Assistance Program (BFA) to demonstrate a biorefinery process that will cultivate algae in ponds. The BFA program authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill promotes the development of new technologies for fuel production from non-corn kernel starch biomass sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pal-item.com\/article\/20091220\/NEWS01\/912200324\">See more<\/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. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack have announced the selection of 19 integrated bio-refinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. California-based Sapphire Energy will receive a non-ARRA loan guarantee for up to $54.5 million through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","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=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}