The Centers for Renewable Energy and Biomass Utilization provide expertise in biomass feedstocks, biopower, bioproducts, biofuels for transportation, wind energy, renewable hydrogen, and building efficiency for industry, stakeholders, state agencies and institutes, and entrepreneurs.
The EERC has mastered the art of leveraging government research dollars by developing true working partnerships with private sector clients, the research community, and government to research, develop, refine, demonstrate, patent, and commercialize innovative technologies that provide practical solutions to strategic global energy and environmental issues. This is the philosophy and culture of the EERC.
The EERC welcomes new partners in developing renewable energy technologies. A partnership may be as simple as conducting a series of tests on a client's technology or working collectively on joint technology.
Recent Partners
- Agricultural Research Institute
- Alliant Energy
- American Lung Association
- Ankur
- Archer Daniels Midland
- Agricultural Utilization Research Institute
- BBI International
- Basin Electric Power Cooperative
- California Energy Commission
- Cargill
- Catacel
- Central Electric Power Cooperative
- Chippewa Valley Ethanol Corporation
- City of Grand Forks
- Ensyn
- Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.
- Electric Power Research Institute
- Global Energy
- Grand Forks Truss
- Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development
- Great River Energy
- Hydrogenics
- ICM
- J.D. Irving, Limited
- J.R. Simplot Company
- Manitoba Hydro
- Minnesota Corn Growers Association
- Minnesota Power
- Minnesota Soybean Growers Association
- Minnkota Power Cooperative, Inc.
- MDU Resources Group
- North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Council
- North Dakota Corn Growers Association
- North Dakota Department of Agriculture
- North Dakota Department of Commerce Division of Community Services State Energy Program
- North Dakota Forest Service
- North Dakota Industrial Commission
- North Dakota State Board of Agricultural Research
- North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center
- Northwest Manufacturing
- Otter Tail Power Company
- Phillips Petroleum
- Power Generation Inc.
- Sauder Woodworking
- South Dakota State University
- South Dakota Soybean Council
- South Dakota Soybean Processors
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Textron Lycoming
- University of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota - Mankato
- University of Minnesota - Morris
- University of North Dakota Chemical Engineering Department
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory
- U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- U.S. DOE Office of Science
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Verendrye Electric Cooperative
- West Central Research and Outreach Center
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Laboratory
- Xcel Energy
