A recently retired ACE board member helped the organization focus in on the wants and needs of the target market, writes Ron Lamberty. This column appears in the February issue of EPM.
Active pressure continued in most commodity markets with concerns coming from commercial and investment traders through early January. Global worries created widespread stock market pressure in the United States and several foreign markets.
Three Poet biorefineries will expand ethanol production capacity by a combined total of 25 million gallons in this year. Poet Biorefining – Hanlontown, Poet Biorefining – Hudson, and Poet Biorefining – Caro will all expand capacity.
Amyris Inc. recently announced the availability of its Pathways Program, a program that provides partners a low-cost, low-risk opportunity to access Amyris's industry-leading synthetic biology technology.
CHS Inc. has released financial results for the fiscal first quarter of 2016. The company reported $385.3 million in revenue from its renewable fuels business, down $109 million, or 22 percent, compared to the same period of the previous year.
The idea of replacing fossil-based fuel with a renewable source of sustainable energy is enough to get any environmentalist excited. USDA scientists have advanced a process to produce a crude liquid called “bio-oil� from agricultural waste.
On Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of the Navy will launch the first vessels of its Great Green Fleet at the San Diego Naval Air Station North Island, Carrier Pier. The carrier strike group will deploy using alternative fuels.
After a decade of ethanol mostly being priced lower than gasoline, the ethanol/gasoline price ratio has been above 1.0 for the past four months, according to University of Illinois economists Scott Irwin and Darrel Good.
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently announced it has initiated anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of U.S. distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) exported to China, prompting a U.S. industry response.
December 2015 was the warmest December on record across the United States. Natural gas prices responded in line with the warm weather and the prompt-month NYMEX futures contract plunged to a 16-year low.
The Scottish government has announced it will aid in the funding of a district heating biomass project in Broomhill, Glasglow. The Cube Housing Association District Heating Project will provide heat and hot water to 701 homes.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is seeking proposals from firms qualified to provide technical information, economic and technical modeling, and policy and economic analysis in the area of renewable heating and cooling.
Second-generation biofuel crops like the perennial grasses Miscanthus and switchgrass can efficiently meet emission reduction goals without significantly displacing cropland used for food production, according to a new study.
Given the challenge that countries face in transitioning off carbon intensive technologies, now is the time for world leaders to acknowledge the enormous potential of biofuels, writes Bliss Baker. This column appears in the February issue of EPM.
Second-generation biofuel crops like the perennial grasses Miscanthus and switchgrass can efficiently meet emission reduction goals without significantly displacing cropland used for food production, according to a new study.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced that with the harvest season almost finished, the sugarcane crush in the south-central region reached approximately 594.08 million tons at the end of December.
Just over a month ago, I wrote a blog on how oil had dipped below $36 per barrel, and speculated a little on its implications to the wood pellet and wood-using energy industries.
OSHA penalties are increasing for the first time since 1990 and employers need to be aware and more cautious than in the past, writes Brent Soderstrum. This column appears in the February issue of EPM.
Nippon Paper Industries USA Co. Ltd. and FSE Energy have issued a joint statement announcing the resolution of a legal dispute over a biomass boiler installed at Nippon Paper's mill in Port Angeles, Washington.
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers has announced it has filed a motion to intervene in the recent lawsuit brought by members of the ethanol industry against the U.S. EPA regarding its recent renewable fuel standard (RFS) rulemaking.
For eight years, Joule has been working under the radar to develop and commercialize its CO2-to-fuel technology. This story appears in the February issue of EPM with the headline 'Industrializing photosynthesis.'
The U.S. EPA's vehicle emissions modeling system is inadequate and unreliable as a tool for estimating the exhaust emissions of gasoline blends containing more than 10 percent ethanol, according to a new comprehensive third-party evaluation.
Scientists from Rice University, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have discovered how two bacterial enzymes work as a team to break apart lignin.
BioHiTech America has partnered with Natural Systems Utilities and others to test a process that will allow BioHiTech's Eco-Safe Digester to digest, tank, and deliver the effluent to anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities anywhere in the world.
On Jan. 8, U.K.-based React Energy plc announced it has secured a loan facility from EBIOSS Energy AD. The company will use the proceeds from the facility for the continued investment in its portfolio of U.K. biomass gasification projects.
The BioAg Alliance, Novozymes' and Monsanto's collaboration to improve crop harvests through naturally-occurring microbes, recently announced results from its 2015 field trial program. Those results included a corn inoculant product.
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers has announced it has filed a motion to intervene in the recent lawsuit brought by members of the ethanol industry against the U.S. EPA regarding its recent renewable fuel standard (RFS) rulemaking.
The big news is that the Chinese government did decide to proceed with their anti-dumping case vs. U.S. ethanol producers. The only good news is that it is a now known fact, with a more definitive timeline.
Scientists from Rice University, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have discovered how two bacterial enzymes work as a team to break apart lignin.
Anellotech recently announced that the ithas entered into the next phase of its strategic partnership with Suntory Holdings Ltd. The partnership is focused on developing cost-competitive biobased plastic beverage bottles.
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