Fighting the Good Fight
October 25, 2013
Biomass thermal coincides with the Oregon Army National Guard's energy security goals and has larger-picture benefits such as aiding wildfire reduction and job creation.
Farmers are now harvesting and delivering cob bales for the 2014 opening of Project Liberty in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Project Liberty is Poet-DSM's 20 MMgy cellulosic bioethanol plant under construction today.
Greenleaf Power recently announced it finalized the purchase of the Quebec-based St. Felicien Cogeneration Power Plant from Enel Green Power, Canada. The 21-megawatt (MW) facility first began operations in 2001.
On the heels of surging E15 and E85 sales, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has declared the so-called E10 blend wall dead. The Organization has released the first month of sales data for E15 in Iowa following its Sept. 16 reintroduction.
Vermont's Norwich University celebrated the opening of its $6.2 million biomass heating plant Oct. 25. The facility will source and combust 13,000 tons of wood chips annually from locally harvested wood sources within a 100 mile radius.
Anchoring Air Force Energy Goals
October 25, 2013
Alaska's first landfill gas-to-energy project provides the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with seven times its renewable energy mandate per the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
The U.S. EPA has released its third year of greenhouse gas data gathered through its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which tracks more than 8,000 facilities in the U.S. An online tool provides users with easy access to the information.
Amyris Inc. and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, the largest low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding that could pave the way for GOL commercial flights to use Amyris biojet in 2014.
Study highlights GHG reduction potential of butanol, drop-in biofuels
By Staff
October 25, 2013
Trial testing of Enogen corn at Bonanza BioEnergy LLC has convinced Conestoga Energy Partners LLC to sign a second commercial agreement to use Syngenta's corn with enzymes built right into it at two of the three plants it manages and operates.
After being shut down and idle for more than five years, the ethanol plant in Pratt, Kan., is back in business under the ownership of Pratt Energy, a partnership between The Scoular Company and Pratt Biofuel Investors.
Sweetwater Energy Inc. and Naturally Scientific Technologies Ltd. are expanding their relationship, announcing a joint venture to produce sugar from carbon dioxide. The joint venture will add flexibility synergies to Sweetwater's business model.
Sweetwater Energy Inc. and Naturally Scientific Technologies Ltd. are expanding their relationship, announcing a joint venture to produce sugar from carbon dioxide. The joint venture will add flexibility synergies to Sweetwater's business model.
The Finance Authority of Maine (FAME) Board recently approved a $25 million loan guarantee to support a proposed torrefied wood pellet project in Millinocket, Maine. The project is under development by Thermogen Industries.
U.K.-based Estover Energy Ltd. recently announced it has received planning consent from Dover District Council to proceed with a biomass-fired combined-heat-and-power (CHP) facility at Discovery Park at Sandwich, Kent, in England.
Energy, road and rail projects worth GBP 33 billion ($53.35 billion) were prequalified after applying for a U.K. government infrastructure guarantee program. Biomass power projects were among those prequalified for the program.
Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has issued a request for proposals for electric power produced by Class I biomass, landfill gas and run-of-river hydropower facilities. Applications are due Nov. 18.
KiOR Inc. has announced the execution of $100 million in committed equity-related financing in two separate private placement transactions to support the company's recently announced expansion of production capacity at its Columbus, Miss., location.
The Renewable Fuels Association and U.S. Grains Council have announced that Export Exchange 2014 will take place Oct. 20-22 in Seattle. The event, held every two years, is the nation's premier international trade conference on coarse grains.
Waste Management has broken ground on a renewable natural gas plant at the Milam Landfill in Fairmont City, Ill. The site is the 134 landfill developed by the company to produce generate electricity, produce renewable gas or displace fossil fuel.
Edeniq Inc. has announced that Flint Hills Resources Renewables LLC will expand its use of Edeniq's Cellunator proprietary technology by installing Cellunators at two additional locations. Flint Hills already employs the process in Fairbank, Iowa.
Thirteen members of Congress have sent a letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission advocating for an investigation into the role fraud and manipulation have played in the volatility of the renewable identification number (RIN) markets.
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