Australian algae company Plentex Ltd. has released its financial results for the first half of its fiscal year. Chairman Peter Streader noted that the company is focused on producing a portfolio of products from both macroalgae and microalgae.
Interest in the Beta Renewables SpA commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant undergoing commissioning in Crescentino, Italy, has been high, attracting nearly 10 tour groups per week.
Northeast Pellets' Matt Bell on designing Maine's first pellet mill, losing it to a fire, and rebuilding with safety and fire abatement priorities.
President Barack Obama nominated a new administrator of the U.S. EPA March 4. Gina McCarthy, current assistant administrator for the EPA's office of air and radiation, is on deck.
President Obama has nominated Ernie Moniz as Secretary of Energy. Moniz is a physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A nuclear physicist, Moniz has served as director of MIT's Energy Initiative.
Proper employee training, robust safety procedures and accident prevention techniques will result in a safer work place and dollars saved.
The continual attacks on E15 get frustrating and tiring for those of us that recognize the positives of the fuel.
With the recent promulgation of the Boiler MACT regulations, biomass power generators will be obliged to meet additional emission limitations.
President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy as U.S. EPA administrator. McCarthy currently serves as assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. If confirmed, she would replace former Administrator Lisa Jackson.
The RFA has packed 40 facts about ethanol into a video that ought to be shared with your Congressional delegation.
President Obama has nominated Ernie Moniz as Secretary of Energy. Moniz is a physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A nuclear physicist, Moniz has served as director of MIT's Energy Initiative.
Glenn Farris, marketing manager, biomass, at AGCO Corp. is a featured speaker in the "Walking the Sleeping Giant: Equipment and Approaches for Harvesting and Collecting Agricultural Biomass," panel at the 2103 International Biomass Conference & Expo.
The Milken Institute has released a new report, noting that the U.S. could replace 20 percent of its petrochemical consumption with biobased products over the next decade, while creating jobs and capturing a larger share of the biochemical market.
Germany-based RWE Innogy GmbH, a subsidiary of RWE Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, has sold its share of two small-scale biomass power plants to Koehler Renewable Energy GmbH. However, the company is remaining active in the large-scale biomass sector.
Rob Vierhout, secretary general of ePURE, the European Renewable Ethanol Association, spoke to Ethanol Producer Magazine about the recent European Union decision to impose an $83.03 per metric ton tariff on imported U.S. ethanol.
Longwood University received a $50,000 Dominion renewable energy grant to commission a pre-planning study for a biomass fuel processing center. The focus of the study is to find efficient ways to dry sawdust used to fuel the biomass boilers.
Fat worms confirm that researchers from Michigan State University have successfully engineered a plant with oily leaves, a feat that could enhance biofuel production as well as lead to improved animal feeds.
A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to repeal the E15 waiver and require additional testing of the fuel, despite extensive testing by the U.S. DOE. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., introduced H.R. 875.
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