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Biomass is a clean, renewable energy source that can help to significantly diversify transportation fuels in the United States. The Biomass Program is helping transform the nation's renewable and abundant biomass resources into cost-competitive, high-performance biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower.

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Turning Corn Cobs Into Fuel

Learn how one farmer is at the forefront of helping supply the United States with a promising renewable fuel: cellulosic ethanol. More...

Growing Biofuels, Protecting Resources

Researchers at Argonne National Lab are exploring the potential of marginal or degraded lands and contaminated water to grow biomass for fuel. More...

Recovery Act Funding

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is helping accelerate critical projects focused on biomass techonologies. Read about recent Recovery Act investments in advanced biofuels research, development, and deployment. More...



Program Technology Pathways

Learn about the steps required to create sustainable biofuels from feedstocks and deliver them to end users. Click on the process steps below to find out how the Program's technology areas are making advances through research, development, and demonstration.

The biofuels life-cycle: At each stage of the life-cycle, energy is spent to harvest, transport, refine, distribute, and use the biofuels. Distribution Processing and Conversion Biorefinery Transportation Feedstock End-User