Renewable Energy

Benefitting America's Farmers and the Country

South Dakota State University is the lead institution in the Agriculture Experiment Station, the 2010 BioProcessing Center, and the Sun Grant Initiative. The mission of this partnership is to develop, distribute, and implement significant advances in biobased energy technologies for the benefit of America’s farmers and the country.

Emergent biobased and non-biobased renewable energy research fields in the Brookings area include:

• Anaerobic digestion
  
• Ethanol and biodiesel
  
• Nano-scale photovoltaics
  
• Feedstock genomics and production
  
• Wind energy