Fifteen applications totaling $2.55 million dollars were approved by the Biofuels Center Board on 15 April 2008.  For the rest of the awards, please see the Loans Award winners.

List of Grant Winners 2008:

• $197,033 ~ Development and Evaluation of reduced input planting, harvest, storage system strategies for economic production of biofuels from Industrial Sweet Potatoes ~ NCSU - SPARCS
• $195,000 ~ Biofuels Production Laboratory Equipment Funding ~ Central Carolina Community College
• $135,845 ~ Haywood County Biofuels PET Project ~Haywood Community College Foundation
• $200,000 ~ The Abell Foundation Commercialization-Focused Woody Biomass Gasification Project utilizing NC Pilot Plant ~ The Abell Foundation, Inc.
• $27,314 ~ Renewable Fuels Program ~ Washington High School
• $200,000 ~ High-Value Transportation Fuels from NC Feedstocks ~ NCSU
• $200,000 ~ Expansion of the Carbon to Liquids Development Center in Durham, NC - Enabling Development & Commercialization of New Biomass to Fuels Technologies for NC ~ Southern Research Institute
• $138,688 ~ Developing  Dekkera bruxellensis for bio-ethanol production ~ NCSU
• $198,178 ~ Producing Ethanol from Biomass by Extracting value Prior to Combustion ~ NCSU
• $187,700 ~ Bioenergy Plantations: technical economic study to establish feasibility of affordable, abundant, renewable biomass selected for efficient conversion to transportation fuels and power for NC ~ NCSU
• $148,800 ~ STARworks Biofuels ~ Yadkin-PeeDee Lakes Project, Inc. dba Central Park NC
• $199,733 ~ Growing Duckweed on Swine Wastewater for Ethanol Production ~ NCSU