Pennsylvania Grain Processing LLC, a 110 MMgy ethanol plant that sat idle for about a year, has resumed operations. The former Bionol Clearfield facility was purchased at auction last spring after the original owner filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
A relentless focus on yield requires vigilance and nimble decision making.
August 06, 2012
The drumbeat to modify the RFS continues and ethanol haters are jumping on the bandwagon. All this talk of waiving ethanol blending requirements because ethanol uses too much corn is having the market effect of driving the price of corn down.
Ontario Power Generation has signed a contract awarding Aecon Group Inc.'s Industrial Division design and construction work for the Atikokan Generating Station biomass conversion project.
Customized design cost-effectively addresses fouling issues
Not all ethanol leaving the fermenters goes to the tank.
A method for controlling infection and maximizing ethanol yields
People, Partnerships & Deals
A new yeast product promises to save producers pennies per gallon when pennies count the most.
Following on the success of its long-running "Right Here, Right Now" ads, the Renewable Fuels Association is debuting a new ad which focuses on ethanol's ability to lower gas prices at the pump and offer consumers relief in a difficult economy.
Global energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus has launched the first published market price assessment for California Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits.
A day after more than 100 representatives sent a letter to the U.S. EPA, urging relief from the renewable fuel standard, two trade associations of the ethanol industry laid out many reasons why a RFS waiver is not needed.
A 500,000 metric ton pellet production facility under construction in Virginia, and the $90 million it will cost to complete the project says a lot about the positive link between economic development and wood pellets.
The Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and the Northwest Territories government have invested over $5.7 million to create opportunities for a sustainable woody biomass industry in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Three important tax credits for biofuels were included in a bipartisan package of tax extenders included in a tax package passed Aug. 2 by the Senate finance committee, offering hope to advanced biofuel developers.
Commissioning is well under way at the commercial-scale Ineos New Planet Bioenergy LLC facility, dubbed the Indian River BioEnergy Center, located near Vero Beach, Fla.
Doyon Utilities LLC held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to celebrate the opening of the first landfill-gas-to-energy project in Alaska, which is powered by GE's ecomagination-qualified Jenbacher gas engines.
The ethanol businesses of Valero Energy Corp. and Archer Daniels Midland Co. showed significantly decreased earnings in the ethanol business segment the last quarter.
Algae.Tec held a grand opening for its algae-to-biofuel plant in New South Wales, Australia, on Aug 2., a facility that the company said is the first of its kind in the country.
ICM Inc. announced Aug. 2 that it has signed a contract with ACA Bio Cooperative Limitada to design a dry-mill corn ethanol plant with a 40 MMgy production capacity, located near the city of Villa Maria, in the central province of Cordoba, Argentina.
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