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Somerset Biofuel, Inc., through its Somerset Pellet Fuel Division, received a $192,097.17 Project Grant from the Rural Business Cooperative Services (RBCS) under the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels (CFDA 10.867) awarded on January 22, 2026. The grant supports the production of advanced biofuels derived from renewable biomass sources other than corn kernel starch. As a manufacturer specializing in wood-based energy and biofuel production technologies, Somerset Biofuel utilized this...

This two-year, $217,923 National Science Foundation project grant funds collaborative research on human networks, sustainable development, and lived experience in a nonindustrial society. Led by researchers from multiple universities and tribal communities, the grantees will investigate relationships between spatial patterns of social interaction and quality of life over 800 years in the Southwestern United States. They will combine existing demographic, socioeconomic, health, and...

This $108,970 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of methods for extracting the backbone from dense, unweighted networks to facilitate analysis. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award to Michigan State University from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2023 will result in three key products. First, common steps in existing backbone extraction methods will be identified. Second, each step will be implemented into a new...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund $291,152 over three years to develop new statistical and econometric methods for analyzing social network data. Northwestern University will use the funding to build new nonparametric regression frameworks and investigate the informational content of partial network data generated through referral sampling and contingency tables. The researchers will characterize the...

This $452,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research on improving the interconnection process for renewable energy generators to connect to the U.S. power grid. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will analyze how the current interconnection queue design acts as a bottleneck to renewable deployment and quantify the costs and benefits of potential policy reforms. It will construct new datasets on...

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund $191,630 to the University of California, Los Angeles to investigate how technological progress is impacted by network connections between individuals. Specifically, the university researchers will develop an equilibrium model to analyze the interconnection between technological diffusion and discovery within social networks. The model will consider how incentives for...

Federal Grant Award Summary Cargill, Incorporated received a $109,053.29 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services under the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels (CFDA 10.867), awarded on January 27, 2026. The grant supports the production of advanced biofuels derived from renewable biomass sources other than corn kernel starch. As an eligible advanced biofuel producer, Cargill utilized the funding to manufacture solid, liquid, or gaseous...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Office of the Chief Economist awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to the University of California, Davis under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA 10.290) effective September 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2027. The project will conduct economic analysis examining the interactions between biofuel policies and their market impacts, with particular focus on biomass-based diesel incentives and...

The Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service awarded a $5.475 million Project Grant to Central Indiana Ethanol, LLC (CIE) through the Biofuel Producer Program. The grant will support CIE's production of biofuels from May 2022 to May 2024. The Biofuel Producer Program (CFDA 10.378) provides payments to eligible biofuel producers for unexpected market losses due to COVID-19. Given this context, the funding will likely help offset financial losses CIE experienced in its Indiana biofuel...

The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service Washington Office Rural Business Cooperative Services awarded a $1,040,989.37 Project Grant to Al-Corn Clean Fuel, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, under the Biofuel Producer Program (CFDA 10.378). The grant will provide funding for unexpected market losses experienced by the biofuel producer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biofuel Producer Program makes payments to eligible biofuel producers affected by the pandemic. This...