Clean Energy Technologies affiliate selected as USDA grant recipient

Clean Energy Technologies announced that Vermont Renewable Gas, an affiliate of CETY in which CETY indirectly retains 49% ownership interest, has been selected by the United States Department of Agriculture as one of 171 Wood Innovations Grant recipients. Administered by the USDA’s U.S. Forest Service, this $74 million initiative is made possible in part by the bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. VRG was selected to receive $300,000 towards installation and testing of CETY’s high temperature ablative fast pyrolysis reactor at VRG’s planned facility in Lyndonville, Vermont. This grant will also support an operator training program at the facility. VRG and 170 other Wood Innovations Grant recipients were selected based on their ability to spark innovation, create new markets, and support renewable energy. Centered around CETY’s HTAP Biomass Reactor technology, CETY will design, build, and operate the VRG – Lyndon facility. VRG will convert waste biomass from Northeastern Vermont’s working lands into renewable fuel gas and BioChar fertilizer as a byproduct. The renewable fuel gas generated will be converted into renewable electricity and heat. The plant is expected to deliver in excess of 18,000 MWh of renewable electricity and 1,500 tons of BioChar annually and be fully commissioned within 12 months.