On March 4, the Minnesota House of Representatives Energy Policy committee held hearings for two biomass energy-related bills, H.F. 623 and H.F. 780.
The last and biggest hurdle to building the BlueFire Renewables cellulosic ethanol plant in Fulton, Miss., is obtaining the necessary debt financing. The company is still actively working to complete the 19 MMgy project.
In support of the ethanol industry and targeting emergency responders everywhere, the Renewable Fuels Association partnered with Pinnacle Engineering, Inc., in authoring "Fuel Ethanol: Guideline for Release Prevention and Impact Mitigation."
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association today announced that Kountry Korner in Baxter, Iowa, is now offering E15 as a registered fuel, joining Linn Coop Oil in Marion and Fredericksburg Coop in Fredericksburg, in offering the fuel.
Corn imports are up and exports down, supporting higher expected feed and residual disappearance, according to the March 8 World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate report.
Denmark-based Dong Energy has released its 2012 financial results, along with a business strategy through 2020. Notably, the company intends to increase the share of biomass from Danish power stations through the end of the decade.
Denmark-based Dong Energy has released its 2012 financial results, along with a business strategy through 2020. The company has also announced the expansion of the Inbicon cellulosic ethanol plant.
Addressing the fourth Annual Growth Energy Executive Leadership Conference, Tom Buis, CEO of Growth Energy, discussed the significant progress the industry has made despite constant attacks and the strategic goals for the upcoming year.
The search for a less-expensive, sustainable source of biomass, or plant material, for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to duckweed, that fast-growing floating plant that turns ponds and lakes green.
NREL develops faster, more precise biomass analysis tool
By National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Bill Scanlon
March 08, 2013
A screening tool from the U.S. DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory eases and greatly quickens one of the thorniest tasks in the biofuels industry: determining cell wall chemistry to find plants with ideal genes.
The RSB Services Foundation has announced that SkyNRG is the first biofuel operator worldwide to earn the RSB certification for their supply chain of renewable jet fuel including separation, blending and logistics.
Anaergia Inc. has announced that the biogas upgrading facility at Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana is now operational. Anaergia designed, built and now operates the facility that converts biogas from cow manure into transportation fuel.
Biomass Power Louisiana, a subsidiary of Biomass Secure Power Inc., secured a six-month option to lease a site where it is proposing to build a new pellet plant. The plant is a four-phase project set to be completed over several years.
The Biopolymers and Biocomposites Research Team at Iowa State University has received a National Science Foundation planning grant to develop a center at that will focus on bioplastics and biocomposites.
Reps. Ron Kind, D-Wis., and John Lewis, D-Ga., have introduced a bill that would provide qualifying biogas technologies with a 30 percent investment tax credit.
ICM Inc. has announced that IGPC Ethanol Inc. of Ontario, Canada has purchased its patent-pending Selective Milling Technology, which includes a license for operation of this latest ICM platform technology.
Recent heavy snowfalls were most welcome across the Corn Belt. And, while the eastern Corn Belt states of Ohio, Indiana and southern Illinois are now officially out of the drought, much of the western Corn Belt is still in various levels of drought.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has published a white paper outlining eight issues it has identified as being central to the biofuels industry in 2013, including fuel mandates, cellulosic biofuel production, blending economics and politics.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has published a white paper outlining eight issues it has identified as being central to the biofuels industry in 2013, including fuel mandates, cellulosic biofuel production, blending economics and politics.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has signed legislation into law that could make biomass power a more attractive option for utilities within the state by them to, under certain conditions, recover some costs associated with the purchase of biomass power.
Local and state officials joined officials from the Millinocket Regional Hospital in late February to take part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the commission of their wood pellet-powered steam boiler.
Ballard Power Systems has announced the sale of a 175 kW ClearGen distributed generation fuel cell system to the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe of Humboldt County, Calif. The fuel cell system will be integrated with a biomass gasifier.
Gevo Inc. has announced financial results for the final quarter of 2012. The company reported revenue of $1.9 for the three months ended Dec. 31, a decrease compared to the $14.2 million reported during the same period of 2011.
The government of Brazil has published an official notice to increase the mandatory blend level of anhydrous ethanol from to 25 percent, effective May 1. The current blend level is set at 20 percent.
NASA researchers have begun a series of flights using the agency's DC-8 flying laboratory to study the effects of alternate biofuel on engine performance, emissions and aircraft-generated contrails at altitude.
Stoel Rives LLP has published a white paper that provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. EPA's proposed rules for a voluntary renewable identification number (RIN) integrity program.
Legislation is working its way through the Minnesota state House of Representatives and Senate that would open the door for E15, biobutanol and other biofuels. The underlining objective is to displace 30 percent petroleum by 2025.
Stoel Rives LLP has published a white paper that provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. EPA's proposed rules for a voluntary renewable identification number (RIN) integrity program.
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