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June 06, 2013
A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Co. and Cummins Power Generation, a business unit of Cummins Inc., have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. READ MORE
June 06, 2013
Avantium and ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH have announced their joint development agreement for the development of PEF bottles. The goal of the collaboration is to bring 100 percent biobased PEF bottles to market by 2016. READ MORE
June 05, 2013
On June 5, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements held a hearing on the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS). No members of the biofuel industry were invited to testify. READ MORE
June 05, 2013
The 29th annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo, the ethanol industry's largest and longest-running conference, will take place June 10-13 in St. Louis. The conference will feature more than 140 speakers and four program tracks. READ MORE
June 05, 2013
The World Bioenergy Association has made available a comprehensive fact sheet that discusses current and potential global biogas supply for a variety of uses or markets, including electricity, heat and transportation fuels. READ MORE
June 05, 2013
London-based Active Energy Group plc has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Nikofeso Holdings and its principal subsidiary Nikwood, a Ukrainian wood chip exporter that is contracted to supply feedstock to an Italian power plant. READ MORE
June 05, 2013
Morbark Inc. has announced its redesigned 40/36 Whole Tree MicroChipper, which includes an enhanced drum set with 16 knives, a slide-in forestry grate system to reduce oversized chips, and a mechanically driven chip accelerator. READ MORE
June 04, 2013
Greenleaf Power, an owner and operator of green energy power plants and a portfolio company of Denham Capital, announced that it has finalized the purchase of the Tracy Biomass Plant located in Tracy, Calif., approximately 45 miles east of Oakland. READ MORE
June 04, 2013
The U.S. EPA has published data on renewable identification numbers (RINs) generated in April. While no D3 cellulosic biofuel or D7 cellulosic diesel RINs were generated during the month, about 28.22 million D5 advanced biofuel RINs were generated. READ MORE
June 04, 2013
BioAmber Inc. has partnered with Brenntag in the Americas for distribution of its Bio-SA biobased succinic acid and derivatives, including bio-based 1, 4-butanediol. BioAmber currently supplies commercial Bio-SA from a European production facility. READ MORE
June 04, 2013
With United Airlines's strategic partnership, AltAir Fuels will retrofit part of an existing petroleum refinery to become a 30 million gallon advanced biofuel refinery near Los Angeles, Calif. READ MORE
June 04, 2013
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed legislation into law repealing the state's renewable fuel standard (RFS), calling the program a state mandate on Florida businesses that is duplicative of the federal renewable fuel standard. READ MORE
June 03, 2013
SaniGreen Bioenergy is planning to construct a $30 million anaerobic digester in South Saint Paul, Minn., to produce biogas fuel. The facility will utilize 150,000 tons of solid and liquid organic waste each year and produce pipeline-quality biogas. READ MORE
June 03, 2013
The Germany-based ENTRADE Group has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire all shares of Agnion Energy Inc. from its existing owners, which includes shares held by Waste Management and three venture capital companies. READ MORE
May 31, 2013
DECC is consulting on increasing the tariff levels for heat generated by ground source heat pumps, large biomass and solar thermal kit accredited under the Government's Renewable Heat Incentive scheme. READ MORE
May 31, 2013
The University of Illinois-Urbana will begin construction this fall on a new bioprocessing laboratory to research biomass-derived biofuels, such as cellulosic ethanol. READ MORE
May 30, 2013
Global renewable chemicals company Myriant Corp. announced on May 30 the successful scaling and commercial production of bio-succinic acid at ThyssenKrupp Uhde's biotech commercial validation facility in Leuna, Germany. READ MORE
May 30, 2013
Fife, Scotland-based paper product company Tullis Russell said this week that it will switch over to biomass-derived heat and power in October. READ MORE
May 29, 2013
Quasar energy group officially began construction of an anaerobic digester in Franklin, Ohio, the company reported May 29. READ MORE
May 29, 2013
The U.K.'s first open access bio-liquid natural gas (bio-LNG) filling station, built by Gasrec, was officially opened on May 23, accompanied by Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Transport, Norman Baker MP. READ MORE
May 29, 2013
Among existing innovations of the Vermeer Tier 4i HG6000 and HG6000TX horizontal grinder is the all-new chip drum, which allows the grinder to produce a consistent sized chip necessary for many applications, including biofuel chip production. READ MORE
May 28, 2013
The U.S. Department of Defense has issued three contracts totaling $16 million for biofuel plants intended to help power fighter jets and destroyers by 2016, as part of the Defense Production Act's Advanced Drop-In Biofuels Production Project. READ MORE
May 28, 2013
Grocery chain Kroger has brought a new anaerobic digester on line that is generating biogas from food waste to help power its distribution center in Compton, Calif. READ MORE
May 28, 2013
Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. announced that it has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste into jet and diesel fuels, and that it has been awarded a $4.7 million grant by the U.S. Department of Defense. READ MORE
May 28, 2013
Chemical engineering researchers Wei Fan, Paul Dauenhauer and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reported that they've discovered a new chemical process to make p-xylene, an important ingredient of common plastics. READ MORE
May 24, 2013
A gasification technology developed by the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands will be applied on a global scale in the new few years, as ECN has signed a license agreement with Dutch company Royal Dahlman. READ MORE
May 24, 2013
The U.S. DOE has announced it will provide technical assistance to five new tribal clean energy projects through its Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team Program, two of which involve biomass energy. READ MORE
May 24, 2013
The U.S. EPA has released a notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow renewable diesel, renewable naphtha, and renewable electricity used in electric vehicles produced from landfill gas to generate cellulosic or advanced biofuel RINs. READ MORE
May 23, 2013
Sister companies Pacific Ag Solutions and Pacific PowerStock, both innovators in agricultural supply chain logistics, have merged to become PacificAg, the the largest agricultural residue and hay harvesting business in the U.S. READ MORE
May 23, 2013
CME Group is pleased with the interest generated in its new renewable identification numbers (RINs) futures contracts. The commodities trading exchange reported that 60 lots of D5 advanced biofuels RINs were traded earlier this week. READ MORE
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