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University of Illinois clean energy research gets $120 million | Crain's Chicago Business

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will take the lead on more than $120 million in funding to support research in biofuels and bioproducts for the Bioenergy Research Center, which is one of four large-scale U.S. Department of Energy-funded research centers focused on innovation in clean energy.

The announcement extends funding for the Center for Advanced Bioenergy & Bioproducts Innovation, or CABBI, where U of I helps lead research, for five more years until 2027 and will now total more than $230 million across a decade of research. The first five-year commitment was announced in 2017.