The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission is enhancing its rebate program for residential pellet heat, offering a 30 percent system and installation rebate of up to $6,000 on bulk-fed wood pellet central boilers and furnaces.
August 22, 2011
Seed corn developer Syngenta announced it has a new blog to help farmers, and anyone else for that matter, figure out the social media and begin using this new forum to become agvocates, or just build their networks.
A foreclosure auction is scheduled to be held Aug. 24 for the 60 MMgy Clean Burn Fuels LLC corn-based ethanol plant in Raeford, N.C. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year and later converted the filing to a Chapter 7.
A new study by Lux Research Inc. has found that although investment in alternative fuels remained flat last year, a four-year low at $930 million for startups, funding for feedstock-agnostic and end-product flexible technologies was more common.
Corn and DDGS exports to China will be getting added scrutiny this fall by some buyers. Syngenta has launched an informational campaign, plus filed suit against one of those buyers, regarding its newly released Agrisure Viptera trait.
Millar Western Forest Products Ltd., a market pulp mill in Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada, hopes to build a 5.2-megawatt biomass power plant that would use its mill wastewater. The mill produces pulp that is sold to paper mills.
Vineyards LLC is developing a data center campus, Vineyards Data Center Park, which will be powered by a 50-megawatt biomass plant. The use of biomass for energy provides attractive power pricing that should be enticing to potential occupants.
A $5,000 research grant was awarded to undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by British Petroleum. The purpose of the grant is for students to learn the engineering properties of biomass.
Fram Renewable Fuels, a wood pellet producer in the U.S., has entered into an agreement with Telfair Forest Products to build a wood pellet manufacturing facility at TFP's Lumber City, Ga., location.
The two companies have formed a joint-venture to build an industrial biorefinery to produce Genomatica's butanediol (BDO) for use in Novamont's bioplastic products.
The U.S. DOE has announced a team of researchers in its BioEnergy Science Center have pinpointed the gene that controls ethanol production capacity in a microorganism.
The U.S. DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy targets the “white space� of existing energy research
August 22, 2011
Intellect, experience and business sense make them the industry's dream
Royal DSM is making significant inroads in the biorefining sector, and it shows no signs of slowing down
SDSU researchers evaluate use of biochar as a soil amendment
August 22, 2011
Clean technology firms with strong energy practices
Mirel bioplastic selected for a new line of film products
August 22, 2011
A synthetic biologist engineers program to test DNA sequences in superbugs
August 22, 2011
The Kbase will reveal relationships between microbes and environments
USDA announces more BCAP project areas, but the program's fate is unclear
Ineos Bio makes progress on nation's first cellulosic biorefinery project
How MSW will be efficiently, economically utilized in the Tar Heel State
NatureWorks to broaden biopolymer portfolio with new Ingeo lactide
August 22, 2011
Danish city to test Dong Energy/Inbicon-inspired MSW-to-bioliquid process
The U.S. military still sees benefits in biofuels
People, Partnerships & Deals
What biofuel companies need to know about the FCPA
The U.S. must establish itself now as a center of excellence in biomaterial supply before it's too late
Can America afford to stick around for the second act?
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