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Colorado labs, universities and businesses — including the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Solix Bio fuels Inc. — are part of two consortiums awarded $78 million in federal funding to develop biofuels.
The stimulus-fund grants were made Wednesday by the Department of Energy.
Solix and Colorado State University are part of a group, led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, using $44 million to focus on algae- to-oil technology.
Solix has an algae-to-oil pilot plant on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation near Durango.
A second group led by Golden-based NREL and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will use a $33.8 million grant to research the development of infrastructure compatible with biomass-based hydrocarbon fuels.
