Of that amount, up to $483m will go to 14 pilot-scale and 4 demonstration-scale biorefinery projects in 15 states. The remaining $81.1m will go to accelerate construction of a biorefinery project being developed by Bluefire in Fulton, Mississippi.
The states are California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Collectively, these biorefinery projects chosen by DOE