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April 30, 2013
Montpelier, Vt., broke ground in mid-April on its biomass thermal project to serve downtown public and private buildings. The project, a joint undertaking by the city and state government, is expected to be complete later this year. READ MORE
April 30, 2013
Natural Power has this month been awarded its first biomass contract in Ireland. The contract will see Natural Power provide owners engineer services for Biotricity Ltd. on the company's Rhode Biomass Plant in County Offaly, Ireland. READ MORE
April 29, 2013
The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection has published a final study on the state's existing renewable portfolio standard (RPS). The analysis recommends changing the way biomass and biogas power are treated under the program. READ MORE
April 29, 2013
More than 100 organizations have delivered a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees urging them to adopt a new Farm Bill with robust mandatory funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. READ MORE
April 26, 2013
The Pew Charitable Trusts has published the 2012 edition of its "Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?" report. The analysis offers an update of Pew's reports tracking clean energy investments over the past nine years. READ MORE
April 26, 2013
Christiane Egger, deputy manager of the Upper Austrian Renewable Energy Agency, explained how the region is utilizing renewable resources to meet 100 percent of its heat and energy needs by 2030 at the 2nd annual Heating the Midwest Conference. READ MORE
April 26, 2013
Toray Industries Inc. has jointly announced with Genomatica Inc.that it has successfully made a partially bio-based PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) using 1,4-butanediol (BDO) made with Genomatica's bio-based process technology. READ MORE
April 26, 2013
University of Wisconsin-Madison chemists have identified an approach to use oxygen gas to convert lignin, a byproduct of biofuel production, into a form that could allow it to replace fossil fuels as a source of chemical feedstocks. READ MORE
April 26, 2013
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the April issue of its Monthly Energy Review, reporting net electricity generation for wood biomass and waste biomass in January. READ MORE
April 26, 2013
It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. READ MORE
April 26, 2013
Graham Construction has been appointed to undertake the design and construction of a major new facility for importing, storing, and onward transfer of renewable fuels (wood pellets) at Associated British Ports' Port of Immingham. READ MORE
April 25, 2013
Viaspace Inc. has provided an update on the Tibbar Energy 7 MW anaerobic digestion power plant project on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, noting that Tibbar is continuing to plant its Giant King Grass nurseries. READ MORE
April 25, 2013
Just as it is readying to opening a 500,000-metric ton wood pellet production facility in Woodville, Texas, German Pellets announced that it plans to build an additional 1 million-metric ton plant in Louisiana. READ MORE
April 25, 2013
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has renewed a historic agreement with U.S. dairy producers to accelerate the adoption of innovative waste-to-energy projects and energy efficiency improvements on U.S. dairy farms. READ MORE
April 25, 2013
On April 23 Joule Unlimited announced it was selected as a 2013 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The company also recently announced progress with its Sunflow-G and Sunflow-J processes. READ MORE
April 25, 2013
Drax Group plc recently announced that it has agreed to a GBP 75 million ($114.83 million) amortizing loan facility maturing in June 2018 with Friends Life, underpinned by a guarantee from HM Treasury. READ MORE
April 24, 2013
A report by Carbon Connect says that biomass power stations and carbon capture and storage could play an important role in replacing the electric capacity that is shut down in the U.K lieu of stricter pollution laws. READ MORE
April 24, 2013
The comment period of the U.S. EPA's proposed rules for a voluntary renewable identification number (RIN) integrity program closed on April 18. The proposed rule creates a structured process for buyers of RINs to verify their validity. READ MORE
April 24, 2013
Work on international standards for solid biofuels continues to expand, with new projects for thermally treated solid biofuels and safe handling of pelletized biofuels the latest to be introduced at the International Organization for Standardization. READ MORE
April 23, 2013
Pending legislation in Minnesota could alter the state's ethanol mandate, allowing for the use biofuels under than ethanol to meet the current 10 percent renewable content requirement for gasoline. The measure is included in H.F. 976. READ MORE
April 23, 2013
Helius Energy plc has announced that the Helius CoRDe Ltd. in Rothes, Scotland, is being accredited as a combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plant under the Renewables Obligation. READ MORE
April 23, 2013
The U.S. DOE announced Frontline Bioenergy LLC, Cobalt Technologies Inc., Mercurius Biorefining LLC and BioProcess Algae LLC will receive $17.7 million with the aim of producing drop-in biofuels that meet military specifications. READ MORE
April 22, 2013
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), an operator of global markets and clearing house, has announced the introduction of new North American environmental futures contracts for three categories of renewable energy numbers (RINs), including D4, D5 and D6. READ MORE
April 22, 2013
Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP3) members from across the nation descended upon the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus April 15-18 to discuss strategies for advancing research and development of algae-based technologies. READ MORE
April 19, 2013
The International Energy Agency has made its annual report to the Clean Energy Ministerial, reporting that renewable technologies are one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy. READ MORE
April 19, 2013
An Israeli delegation of top academic and industrial biofuels research scientist and innovators met with their U.S. counterparts to discuss collaboration opportunities for advanced biofuel development. READ MORE
April 19, 2013
NexSteppe, a company dedicated to pioneering the next generation of sustainable feedstock solutions for the biobased industries, has announced the launch of its first sorghum hybrid products in the U.S. and in Brazil. READ MORE
April 18, 2013
The U.S. EPA has published data on renewable identification numbers (RINs) generated in March. While no D3 cellulosic RINs were generated during the month, 8,332 D7 cellulosic diesel RINs representing 4,901 gallons of fuel were generated. READ MORE
April 18, 2013
Cereplast's financial statements show that preliminary financial results for the three-month period ended March 31 demonstrate that total revenue for the first quarter of this year exceeds the entire revenue reported for 2012. READ MORE
April 18, 2013
Royal DSM has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a strategic partnership with Rostekhnologii (Rostec), a Russian State corporation, in the fields of biotechnology and functional materials. READ MORE
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