May 22, 2006—The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded $4.2 million recently to 18 small enterprises that will use the money to develop innovative products and renewable energy from woody biomass from national forests.
Although many of the recipients are forest products companies, funds were also awarded to such organizations as Nevada’s Lake Tahoe Unified School District, which plans to fuel a cogeneration system with biomass fuel; Big Valley Power, a biomass power plant in Redding, CA; and the Montana Community Development Corporation, which has been experimenting with using wood waste from logging operations to fuel a boiler at a paper mill.
For more information visit the USDA.
