I recently received an email from a gentleman named Patrick about an upcoming Woody Biomass Field Day at Michigan State University's Forest Biomass Innovation Center, which is happening Aug. 21 in Escanaba, Mich.
The Ontario government announced it is moving forward with plans to convert its Atikokan Generating Station to biomass, which will be one of the largest biomass power plants in the world when complete.
A proposed Canadian biomass power facility shows that finance veterans believe in energy crop production.
Sweden-based ABioNova and Minnesota-based WoodMaster celebrated their first in a series of "Made in America" commercial wood pellet boiler system installations at a ribbon-cutting ceremony highlighted by special guest, Swedish Ambassador to the U.S.
The U.S. ethanol industry is on track to be a net exporter of ethanol in 2012, although at lower levels that last year's record. The EIA highlighted ethanol in its July 18 report, "This Week in Petroleum."
A new bioenergy hub in Europe that will focus on the deployment and investigation of sustainable bioenergy sources was announced July 17 by U.K. Minister of State for Universities and Science David Willetts.
The U.S. Navy has made it official; advanced biofuels used to fuel air or sea applications require zero modification to existing infrastructure. The achievement occurred during a two-day demonstration of the Navy's Great Green Fleet.
A week after it became the first retail gas station to offer E15 under the waiver granted by the U.S. EPA, a celebration was held at Zarco 66 "Oasis" station in Lawrence, Kan. From 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. consumers could fill up with E15 at a discount.
A national low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) could provide a new framework to incentivize alternative transportation fuels and lower the nation's carbon intensity, according to the National LCFS Project which released its findings July 18.
Weltec Biopower GmbH is building a 370 kW biogas plant in Bure, Switzerland for Bio.Etique.Energy SA. The facility's power will be fed into the grid, while surplus heat will be used to heat local training barracks for the Swiss Army.
California-based Ceres Inc. recently announced financial results for the third quarter 2012, which ended on May 31. As part of the release, the company also provided an update on its operations, including its business in Brazil.
Southern Co. announced July 18 that the nation's largest biomass plant is putting electricity on the grid in Texas. A ceremony was held at the Nacogdoches Generating Facility to mark commercial operation for the 100 MW unit.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently toured the Pennsylvania-based Pennwood Farms anaerobic digestion operation for a first-hand account of what USDA and the Rural Energy for American Program helped support deployment of.
Continued drought is impacting the futures prices for corn and ethanol, resulting in significant movement in the last three weeks. Emotions are high, said Rick Kment, Telvent DTN biofuels analyst, as the possibility of tight corn supply looms large.
As drought conditions continue to creep across much of the lower 48 states, the ethanol industry is preparing for the possibility of tight corn supplies for the second year in a row. A majority of the corn crop is now in fair or worse condition.
USDA makes more counties eligible for disaster assistance
By USDA
July 18, 2012
The USDA has designated 39 additional counties in eight states as primary natural disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by drought and excessive heat. During the 2012 crop year, the USDA has designated parts of 29 states as disaster areas.
Protabit receives NSF award for biofuels research
By Protabit
July 17, 2012
The National Science Foundation awarded a Small Business Innovative Research Phase I grant to Protabit LLC, a Pasadena, Calif.-based spin-out from the California Institute of Technology. The grant will be used to engineer cellulase enzymes.
U.S. producers of wood pellets will likely need to meet or exceed sustainability standards set by the European Union for solid biofuels in order access the European export market. Two reports have recently been published that examine the issue.
GE Energy has signed a contract with Cambodian industrial conglomerate Soma Group to supply two of its engines to power a biomass gasification facility. About 1.5 MW of electricity will be generated in total at the facility using rice husk feedstock.
A biofuel technology created by Michigan State University researchers uses microbes to produce both liquid biofuels and hydrogen from biomass feedstock. The process creates energy at levels more than 20 times higher than existing methods.
The U.S. DOE awarded a five-year, $12.1 million grant to researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and their collaborators to develop a new model plant system, Setaria viridis, to advance bioenergy grasses as a biofuel feedstock.
Danforth Center wins DOE funding to study drought, biomass crops
By Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
July 17, 2012
The U.S. DOE awarded a five-year, $12.1 million grant to researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and their collaborators to develop a new model plant system, Setaria viridis, to advance bioenergy grasses as a biofuel feedstock.
Top mileage on ethanol
July 16, 2012
Here's a winner for you. How about 6,800 mpg on ethanol? No fooling. Don't ask me how they measured it, or what the design was, but a team of students from Thailand achieved the highest mileage of all entries at Shell Eco-marathon Asia on July 7.
Rather than focusing on a single microbe capable of converting cellulose to ethanol in a fermenter, researchers at Michigan State University are culturing two bacteria that grow synergistically.
Dyadic International Inc. unveiled its latest biofuels enzyme advancement, AlternaFuel CMAX3. This next generation product enables the production of cellulosic biofuels and bio-based chemicals from a wide range of renewable non-food feedstocks.
AdvanceBio Systems LLC recently announced that the National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain has ordered its SuPR2G reactor. The system will be used for research, development and demonstration activities in CENER's Second Generation Biofuels Center.
South Dakota to award grants for flex fuel pumps
By Growth Energy
July 16, 2012
Growth Energy applauds South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Office of Economic Development for authorizing the Ethanol Infrastructure Incentive Program, providing $960,000 in funding during Fiscal Year 2013.
With such wide differences between the existing versions of the farm bill in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives it's unknown if Congress will be able to agree on a new farm bill before the old one expires Sept. 30.
We've heard both sides of the crop residue harvesting argument time and time again, but new data says that crop residue can be a responsible part of good farming management.
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