Regional Biomass Feedstock Partnership

Annual Review and Planning Meeting

Crop-year 2010

San Antonio, Texas

February 23 & 24

Challenge Meeting renewable energy/products

goals with sustainable production, collection, and distribution of sufficient quantities of lignocellulosic feedstock.

DOE/USDA billion ton study established the resource base at approximately 1.3 billion tons of biomass

SGI Regional Feedstock Workshops Identified major feedstocks and projected

potential sustainable supply within regions 2006

Southeast and North Central 2007

Western, South Central, and North East

SGI/DOE Partnership Development

Objectives Development of more accurate cost supply

information and improved communication with partners in the feedstock supply chain Replicated field trials across regions to determine the

impact of residue removal on future grain yield. Replicated filed trials to develop energy crops within

geographical regions. Regional assessment of feedstock resources which can

be used to determine supply curves

Regional Feedstock Partnership Tasks

1. Biomass Resource Assessment Regional data bases on existing feedstock

supply

2. Biomass Resource Development Field trials of dedicated feedstocks Impact of residue removal on sustainability

3. Education and Outreach BioWeb Regional Feedstock Partnership web site

Partnership Task Teams1. Biomass Resource Assessment

Mark Downing NE – Peter Woodberry SE – Sam Jackson SC – Mark Gregory NC -Mike Wimberly W – Chris Daly

2. Sustainable Corn Residue Removal Doug Karlen

Partnership Task Teams3. Sustainable Cereal Crop Residue Removal

Russ Karow

4. Herbaceous Biomass Feedstock Development Vance Owens

CRP – DK Lee Energy Cane – Brian Baldwin Miscanthus – Tom Voit Sorghum – William Rooney Switchgrass – Vance Owens

Partnership Task Teams5. Woody Biomass Feedstock Development

Tim Rials Poplar – Bill Berguson Willow – Tim Volk

6. Education and Outreach Kim Cassel Sam Jackson

General Roles & Responisbilities Field Plot PI

Conduct field trial(s) & collect data Provide field trial data to data warehouse Analyze data from own field trial(s) and provide

report

General Roles & Responisbilities Species lead

Facilitate sighting and data collection for all field plots for species

Facilitate data uploading for species to data wharehouse

Analyze/summarize data for species across the nation and report

General Roles & Responisbilities Team Lead

Coordinate activity/communication of team Primary contact with Project director Facilitate selection of species leads and plot

locations Nation wide summarization/comparison of data

between species on team and report

General Roles & Responisbilities Regional GIS Coordinator

Gather literature data from region and analyze it for their region.

Augment data from species leads Upload garnered data to data warehouse Provide regional analysis of feedstocks within

their region and report

DOE Funding of Partnership Crop-Year 2008

FY07 - $4.5M Crop-Year 2009

FY08 – $2.9M & FY09 - $2.0M = $4.9M $400K added sustainability data

Crop-Year 2010 FY10 - $4.9M budgeted

Crop-Years 2011 to 2013 Assumed to be as previous crop-years

Plus 20% cost-share

Outcomes to date Completed 2 crop-years of field trials at 59

locations in 37 states

Outcomes to date Most data from 1st crop-year uploaded to

ORNL share-point. Continued refinement of individual

components of residue removal tool. Supported efforts of 5 modelers.

Regional GIS teams have compiled existing data resources and are beginning to analyze

Status of Crop-Year 2010 Funds FY10 funds not yet awarded to SDSU Team leads are assembling necessary paperwork

“packets” to be forwarded to Project Director at SDSU – Due March 1 Only new field plots/PIs are completing NEPA

Crop-year 2010 funds will be disbursed as soon as awarded to SDSU and Sub-award approval clause released by DOE-GO

Outcomes for this Working Meeting Update on each Task Team’s Crop-Year

2008/2009 results, activity, successes and obstacles.

Open discussion leading to possible revision and finalization of experimental plans for Crop-Year 2010

Continued dialog and coordination of activity among Task Teams (especially Resource Assessment), SGA, DOE, and USDA

Outcomes for this Working Meeting

Status check on progress toward stated objectives and desired outcomes

Dialog and potential solutions to issues identified over the past 2 crop-years and during this meeting.

Brainstorm and capture possible opportunities to expand and leverage the Feedstock Partnership.

Meeting Logistics Agenda

Skyline Atrium – working lunches Tango2 – whole group meetings

Working Lunches Report presentations will be posted on the

Feedstock Partnership web page.