As part of the partnership, the companies will supplement current fuels at two California power plants with a sustainable supply of renewable biomass grown specifically for use as fuel in the plants.
In anticipation of this, Chromatin is growing three fields of biomass sorghum, a non-food crop that has a high energy content, is adapted to marginal lands, and requires less than half the water and chemicals of field crops such as corn or sugar cane.
The harvested biomass will be test burned to determine the feasibility of using sorghum as a fuel source to produce electricity at two power plants in California that are co-owned by Constellation Energy and North American Power Group.
The process of generating power from renewable biomass is referred to as closed loop biomass.
Chromatin expects to deliver the first shipments of processed sorghum biomass to the Rio Bravo plants in a few weeks.
Chromatin is developing sustainable renewable energy-crop feedstocks for power, fuel and chemical producers.
