As printed in the Denver Business Journal, June 26, 2007.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is part of team that has won a Department of Energy bid for a $125 million bioenergy research center to find new ways to produce biofuels, the DOE reported Tuesday.

The laboratory is in Golden.

Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory (ORNL) will lead the DOE Bioenergy Science Center team, which also includes the University of Tennessee, Dartmouth College, the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, and three companies: ArborGen in Summerville, S.C.; Diversa (now Verenium Corp.) in San Diego; and Mascoma in Cambridge, Mass.

The team also includes seven individual researchers.

The DOE Bioenergy Science Center will be located on the ORNL campus.

More information on the Bioenergy Science Center is at www.bioenergycenter.org.

Two other centers for bioenergy research also were announced Tuesday, the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and the DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute.

This article appeared in the Denver Business Journal, www.bizjournals.com/denver, on June 26, 2007.