UC Davis Gets $25 Million Grant from Chevron.

Chevron has ponied up $25 million for UC Davis researchers to develop new transportation fuels from farm and forest residue, urban waste, and certain energy producing crops.

The five year project will focus on things like plant stems, branches and leaves.

Leading the project is UC Davis professor Bryan Jenkins, an expert on turning biomass into energy who is the Director fo the California Biomass Collaborative, a largely state-funded group that coordinates the efforts of academia, state, and environmental groups trying to develop alternative fuels from biomass.

UCD Gets $25M for biofuels [Davis Enterprise]