Chronicle Staff Report
Friday, September 21, 2007
The new home for a pioneering biofuels research center appears to be Emeryville, after the University of California regents' approval Thursday of a lease for the project in that small city.
The $125 million Joint BioEnergy Institute, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and headed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was announced in June. A location was not announced, though it was expected to be in the East Bay near the Berkeley lab.
The regents' action did not specify the location of the center. Ron Kolb, a spokesman for the lab, said the exact location is being withheld pending Department of Energy approval.
In a separate bio-energy project, a team led by UC Berkeley received a $500 million grant from petroleum giant BP for a separate research institute on biofuels. The contract for that project is expected to be signed in the near future, according to UC officials.
This article appeared on page B - 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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