BUSINESS BRIEFS PEOPLE, PARTNERSHIPS & PROJECTS
Poet partners with FBN on lower-carbon farming Poet has formed a partnership with Farmers Business Network to boost profits for farmers while promoting sustainable agricultural practices. The partnership will leverage FBN’s GRO Network, which matches farmers who use environmentally friendly practices with buyers who pay a premium for lowcarbon corn. The program measures the
benefits of conservation practices used by farmers on their land. This results in farmlevel carbon-intensity scores that support low-carbon fuels. “At Poet we know that agriculture is the key to combating climate change, and we want to support farmers who share our mission to be good stewards of the Earth by using environmentally friendly practic-
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es,” said Poet Founder and CEO Jeff Broin. “We are excited about the potential of the GRO Network to promote sustainable agriculture and utilize the resulting low-carbon corn to produce even greener bioethanol and bioproducts.”
ClearFlame wins $1.1 million DOE grant ClearFlame Engine Technologies has been awarded a two-year, $1.1 million Phase II grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Innovation Research program. The funding will support the company’s development of clean engine technology for the heavy-duty truck, offhighway and industrial markets. The company’s engine technology en-
ables low-carbon fuels such as ethanol to be integrated into existing diesel engine platforms. “The results we achieved in Phase I of the DOE SBIR program successfully demonstrated the methodology and experimental process for optimizing a diesel-style engine to be more efficient using decarbonized liquid fuels,” said Julie Blumreiter,
chief technology officer and co-founder of ClearFlame. “During Phase II, we’ll focus on additional validation through our collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign.”
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