EdeniQ to commence multi-year trial of energy crops in California’s Central Valley

In California, EdeniQ said that it has commenced a multi-year, field-to-fuel trial to evaluate low-carbon, non-food energy crops, like switchgrass, in the Central Valley. The company commenced a pilot-scale field trial of switchgrass this spring near Visalia using seed varieties from energy crop developer Ceres.

Over the course of the trial, EdeniQ will evaluate the impact of different inputs like water, and even renewable compost, on biomass yields from two commercial switchgrass varieties. The company has previously tested high-biomass sweet sorghum in the Central Valley and has a trial of energycane underway in the Imperial Valley.

EdeniQ developed the Corn3 technologies that increase corn ethanol yields by more than 10 percent, and is developing cellulosic ethanol process technology.

Ceres is developing switchgrass, sorghum, miscanthus, energycane and short-rotation woody crops.

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