The Energy & Environmental Research Center has been awarded a $906,000 contract from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. in East Hartford, Conn., to develop alternative, gasification-based liquid fuels for U.S. military applications.
President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum on Feb. 21 to expand and strengthen the USDA BioPreferred program. The directive aims to drive innovation and job creation in rural America through biobased and sustainable product procurement.
A team of chemical engineers at UMass Amherst coined the discovery the "mini-cellulose" molecule, and it reveals for the first time the chemical reactions that take place in wood or prairie grasses during high-temperature conversion into biofuels.
Minneapolis-based biobased chemical technology developer BioAmber Inc. has closed on a Series C round of financing worth a total of $30 million. The financing was closed in two tranches, the second being $10 million from German company Lanxess.
ZeaChem signs a contract to get its portion of a $40 million USDA grant and will spend the money on its 250,000 gallon per year Oregon cellulosic ethanol demo plant, to develop drop-in fuels and chemicals.
Seattle-based firm Blue Marble Biomaterials and Anheuser-Busch Companies LLC have signed a memorandum of understanding for Blue Marble to begin development of a pilot biorefinery to be co-located at a North American Anheuser-Busch brewery.
NUI Galway researchers will be responsible for the initial step of producing some of the biomass required for conversion into biofuel. Specifically, NUI Galway participants will cultivate macroalgae, or seaweed, at sea in a one-hectare pilot plot.
A producer and collector tax credit has improved economic sustainability in Oregon's biomass industry
More than 400 professionals gather to talk biomass in The City by the Bay
Biobased polylactic acid polymer producer NatureWorks and biosuccinic acid developer BioAmber formed a new joint venture company, AmberWorks, to commercialize a new family of biobased compounded polymer resin grades through NatureWorks' Ingeo line.
The undisclosed amount of USB funding will enable Biobent Polymers to accelerate solutions dedicated to assessing and solving several key technical challenges, provide production capacity refinements and significantly expand its biopolymer markets.
Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Bedford, Mass.-based Joule Unlimited Inc. to design and build its first demonstration-scale renewable fuels production facility near Hobbs, N.M.
The White House has released its Fiscal Year 2013 budget request for the USDA. The administration is asking for a total of $23 billion in discretionary funding, which is a nearly 3 percent decrease compared to the funding levels enacted for FY 2012.
A research project at Montana State University discovered a fungus that can eat algae and effectively ooze oil when dried. It was found through studies in extreme Archaea in Yellowstone hot springs that live in low-pH, high-temperature environments.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry held a Farm Bill hearing on Rural Development and Energy Feb. 15. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack opened the testimony by speaking about the importance of energy policy in the Farm Bill.
BlueFire Renewables together with its wholly owned subsidiary SucreSource have signed agreements with GS Caltex, a Korean petrochemical refining company, to build a cellulose-to-sugar production facility in Korea converting 2 tons/day of C&D waste.
Dynamic Fuels LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between Tyson Foods and Syntroleum, and Mansfield Oil have signed an agreement to supply renewable diesel to Norfolk Southern Corp., one of the country's largest transporters of coal and industrial products.
Stable policy is needed, and there are options available for obligated parties outside of an all-out waiver retroactive to last year.
Florida-based PetroAlgae Inc. has changed its name to Parabel Inc. According to information released by the company, the new name better reflects its strategic changes and commercial milestones. Its pending IPO registration was amended in December.
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent to Congress his federal budget for fiscal year 2013 and has seemingly followed through on his verbal commitments to renewable energy delivered in his Jan. 24 State of the Union Address.
The U.S. DOE released information detailing Obama's $27.2 billion budget requested for the department. Nearly $2.34 billion, or 8.61 percent of the total budget, would support energy efficiency and renewable energy activities and projects.
Westar Trade Resource president and CEO, Cindy Thyfault, has some advice for U.S. renewable energy companies looking to enter the global marketplace.
UPM recently announced plans to develop a biorefinery in Lappeenranta, Finland, to convert crude tall oil into renewable drop-in diesel biofuel. Construction on the 100,000 metric ton plant is scheduled to begin this summer, with startup in 2014.
Getting the biorefining word out there
The USDA has announced a $25 million Notice of Funding Availability for its Repowering Assistance Program, which is designed to provide a financial incentive for biorefineries to use biomass in place of fossil fuels for heat or power production.
The website, AllAboutAlgae.com, developed in concert with the National Biodiesel Board, provides information, videos and photos all about algae-derived products such as biodiesel, aviation fuel, biochemicals, animal feed and nutritional supplements.
OriginOil Inc. has signed a joint commercial agreement with Aquaviridis Inc. to help develop the multiphase algae production rollout of its Mexicali, Mexico, pilot site, followed by future potential algae sites across the Southwest U.S. and Mexico.
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