A safety training course for ethanol producers will be held April 10-11 in Brookings, S.D., sponsored by the Engineering Extension Office, College of Engineering, at South Dakota State University. It qualifies as a 10-hour OSHA training course.
Iona Capital has announced the successful completion of an investment into JFS Howla Hay Biogas Ltd., a joint venture company with developer JFS & Associates Ltd. and a family run Farm in North Yorkshire, England.
For ethanol producers with on-site rail spurs, rail safety training could help avoid accidents causing injury, amputations and death as well as serious financial impacts to the company.
European Bioplastics has published data demonstrating that less than 0.006 percent of global agricultural area is currently required to grow feedstock for the bioplastics industry. That percentage is expected to grow to 0.022 percent by 2016.
Project development is in the financing stage for a nitrogen fertilizer facility to be co-located with Tharaldson Ethanol Inc., a 153 MMgy facility located in Casselton, N.D. The fertilizer plant would produce urea, anhydrous ammonia and UAN.
Lee Enterprises Consulting of Little Rock, Ark., the world's largest alternative and renewable fuel consulting group, is pleased to announce the formation of a strategic alliance with ICM Inc. of Colwich, Kan.
Katrinefors Kraftvarme AB (KKAB), a 50/50 joint venture owned by Metsa Tissue, part of Metsa Group, and the local municipal energy company VänerEnergi AB, will build a new biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plant in Mariestad, Sweden.
The U.K. Department of Energy & Climate Change recently released an updated set of statistics on energy trends and prices. According to the release, power generation from plant biomass more than doubled in 2012.
The Renewable Fuels Association has responded to the questions posed by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce in a white paper entitled, "Examining 'Blend Wall' Challenges."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered the U.S. EPA to reconsider the 2012 renewable fuel standard (RFS) obligation for cellulosic biofuels in January. EPA is now voluntarily reconsidering the 2011 obligation for cellulosic biofuels.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered the U.S. EPA to reconsider the 2012 renewable fuel standard (RFS) obligation for cellulosic biofuels in January. EPA is now voluntarily reconsidering the 2011 obligation for cellulosic biofuels.
The U.K. Department of Energy & Climate Change recently released an updated set of statistics on energy trends and prices. According to the release, ethanol accounted for 55 percent of the biofuels consumed in the U.K. during 2012.
Anaergia Inc. has announced that the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority in Hesperia, Calif., unanimously voted to enter a 20-year power purchase agreement with Anaergia.
The USDA has published a notice of funding availability for the Rural Energy for America Program for fiscal year 2013. The program provides financial assistance in the form of grants and guaranteed loans for renewable energy projects.
Asian Markets for Wood Pellets
By Allen M. Brackley
April 04, 2013
Wood pellets may play a limited but significant role in the renewable portfolios of Japan, South Korea and China.
In a welcome move for corn buyers, the U.S. corn market dropped dramatically in recent days on news of higher-than-expected corn inventories. The corn market took off nearly $1 a bushel since the March 28 USDA Grain Stocks report.
Ventures Inc. has announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. and PGF Biofuels Inc. have entered into a long term strategic agreement for marketing and distribution.
The U.S. DOE has announced it will fund its three Bioenergy Research Centers for an additional five-year period, subject to continued congressional appropriations. The centers were established by the department's Office of Science in 2007.
Raw Material Rationale
By Keith Loria
April 04, 2013
Pellet producers share conceptions regarding hardwood, softwood and blended fuel pellets.
In a new FarmDocDaily post University of Illinois professors Scott Irwin and Darrel Good discuss the on-going cost of renewable fuel standard (RFS) compliance and the price of gasoline.
The USDA has published a notice of funding availability for the Rural Energy for America Program for fiscal year 2013. The program provides financial assistance in the form of grants and guaranteed loans for renewable energy projects.
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