Nebraska-based Rayeman Elements Inc. is producing 100 percent distillers grains supplemental products for forage animals, compressing the DGs into cubes with minimal fines.
Sec. Tom Vilsack announced 13 new biobased product categories eligible for federal procurement preference. Now more than 1,500 additional bioproducts will be offered for preferred purchasing consideration by all federal agencies and contractors.
Tennessee-based ethanol marketing firm Eco-Energy Holdings Inc.is developing an ethanol unit train and storage facility to serve the Atlanta, Ga., area, similar to one being completed in Denton, N.C.
Lee Enterprises Consulting Group announced the addition of California-based solar experts, Bob Parkins Renewable Energy Consultants, as its newest strategic alliance. The group is expanding from its biodiesel roots to encompass all alternative fuels.
Apple to fuel data center with biogas
By Anna Austin
April 10, 2012
Apple Inc. has filed an application with the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to construct a 5 MW, 100 percent biogas-powered fuel cell facility in Catawba County, N.C.
USDA left the feed grain balance sheets for the current marketing year unchanged in its monthly WASDE report. After a couple of reports without a mention of ethanol, the April report simply noted that nothing changed.
Q&A, Twitter-style
April 09, 2012
USDA had another historic first – “virtual office hoursâ€� April 5 with live Q&A with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack – 140 characters at a time on Twitter.
USDA supports Western Plains Energy biogas project
By USDA
April 09, 2012
USDA approved a $5 million payment to Western Plains Energy LLC to support the construction of a biogas anaerobic digester in Oakley, Kan.
Valero Renewables Fuels Co. LLC in Jefferson, Wis., has settled with the state of Wisconsin on an air pollution complaint.
Renewable oil and bioproducts firm Solazyme Inc. and Bunge Global Innovation LLC have agreed to form a joint venture to build, own and operate a commercial-scale renewable oil production facility adjacent to Bunge's Moema sugarcane mill in Brazil.
Alaska bill proposes low-interest loans for home heat conversions
By Anna Austin
April 09, 2012
The Alaska House Finance Committee has approved a bill that would provide low-interest loans to homeowners who wish to convert their homes to biomass, district heating or electric heat, natural gas or propane.
Fagen Europe partnered with Ethanol Europe to build the Hungarian version of a 50 MMgy Fagen/ICM Inc. ethanol plant in Dunafoldvar, Hungary. The plant recently began producing ethanol.
Biofuel groups support RFS, EPA in federal lawsuit
By Renewable Fuels Association
April 09, 2012
Six biofuel trade associations have filed a motion in the U.S. District Court of Appeals to intervene in support of the U.S. EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard 2012 final rule being challenged by the American Petroleum Institute.
The round of funding will be used to directly support the development of its "active and on-schedule" 300-acre integrated algae-to-biofuel demonstration facility, coined the Green Crude Farm, currently under construction in Luna County, N.M.
The potential for expansion of biobased automotive parts and components manufacturing in the Great Lakes region is high, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mass. DOER report includes biomass thermal
By Anna Austin
April 09, 2012
Following a request from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Meister Consultants Group completed a study that evaluates renewable heating and cooling impacts and opportunities in the state.
A study conducted in Minnesota showed turkeys fed 20 percent distillers grains had similar body weight to turkeys fed a corn-soy diet but that problems developed depending on what alternative feed ingredients were included in the ration with DDGS.
Global Industry Analysts has released a comprehensive global report on the soy chemicals market. Factors catalyzing growth in the market is the increasing demand for biodiesel and renewable plastics and shift in industry focus toward alternatives.
Wood Resources International LLC reported this week that wood pellet exports from the U.S. and Canada reached a record high in the fourth quarter of 2011, and attributed it to increasing demand in the U.K.
Biomass energy studies underway at 10 Vt. Facilities
By Anna Austin
April 06, 2012
The U.S. Forest Service and Vermont have teamed up to conduct preliminary feasibility studies for small-scale biomass energy systems at 10 public buildings across the state.
A Bellevue, Wash.-based clean energy consulting firm has issued a 2012 Washington State Clean Energy Roadmap that provides three scenarios to help the state meet its energy goals by 2035.
The pellet industry is not lacking in creativity, evidenced by a number of novel project strategies
Forest certification standards are increasingly important in the pellet industry, but can be confusing to producers and customers alike
Ontario will benefit from greater use of purpose-grown biomass, according to a study released by the Western University Research Park, Sarnia-Lambton campus.
The new technique, a dynamic sensor-regulator system, tripled the amount of biobased diesel produced from glucose in one demonstration. It is able to detect metabolic changes in microbes during the production of fatty acid-based fuels or chemicals.
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