The opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers to continue exporting significant quantities of corn ethanol to Brazil in 2012 will rely significantly on the outcome of Brazil's latest sugarcane harvest, according to a recent Rabobank report.
Progress in New York City
March 09, 2012
A few months ago, I got a call from a woman in the New York City Council's office. She was wondering about biomass energy because the council speaker wanted to propose a renewable energy project for the city and was exploring all the options.
Al-Corn Clean Fuel, a 50 MMgy plant in Claremont, Minn., is working with a St. Paul company investigating secondary production of green diesel at a new or existing ethanol plant. The project is fueled with $248,000 in grant money from the state.
A majority of the U.S. Senate voted March 8 in support of an amendment to the transportation bill to develop affordable and achievable Boiler MACT rules.
Chandler, Ariz.-based Yulex Corp. and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. have entered into a joint development agreement to evaluate and develop biopolymer and biobased resins derived from the guayule ("why-you-lee"), a desert shrub, for tire applications.
With a $25,000 grant, The Oakdale Renewable Energy Plant on a University of Iowa satellite campus will locate and procure additional sources of feedstock to supplement the oat hulls and wood waste its boiler already uses.
Industry supports extension of cellulosic, advanced tax credits
By AEC, Growth Energy, RFA
March 08, 2012
The Renewable Fuels Association, Advanced Ethanol Council and Growth Energy March 8 expressed support for an amendment to the Senate transportation bill offered by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
Itochu Corp. and ZeaChem Inc. intend to acquire partners in Japan, as well as in the U.S., to expand ZeaChem's novel cellulosic ethanol and biobased chemical technology platform worldwide with aims of deploying it at commercial scale by 2014.
Testing proves scalability of Cobalt's pretreatment process
By Cobalt Technologies
March 08, 2012
Next-generation n-butanol developer Cobalt Technologies announced the achievement of major progress toward commercial scale by successfully demonstrating its biomass pretreatment process.
By the end of this month, several U.K. primary schools could be in line to receive biomass boilers, possibly with investments from their regional planning entity in West Yorkshire, England.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a request for proposals to construct a facility that will convert trash into energy and help reach the goal of diverting 75 percent of the city's waste from landfills.
President Obama unveiled new initiatives aimed at increasing the affordability of alternative fuel vehicles and the number of alternative fueling stations during remarks delivered March 7 at the Daimler Trucks manufacturing plant in Mt. Holly, N.C.
The Senate will be voting today or in the next couple of days whether to extend the biodiesel and renewable diesel tax credits.
Itasca Community College, located in Northern Minnesota, has partnered with the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, Skogforsk, to further develop the forest-based bioenergy supply chain in Minnesota.
By using Repreve Renewables' giant miscanthus in its process, Cool Planet Biofuels was reportedly able to achieve a 4,000 gallon per acre conversion rate. This number reflects potential of the crop when grown under optimum growing conditions.
Al-Corn Clean Fuel, a 50 MMgy plant in Claremont, Minn., is working with a St. Paul company investigating secondary production of green diesel at a new or existing ethanol plant.
A corn ethanol plant that has been idle since October 2007 and was sold at auction in the fall of 2010 is now being reinvented as a 10 MMgy sugar beet-to-ethanol production facility.
Plans for Beaver Wood Energy's 34 MW CHP facility co-located with a pellet plant in Fair Haven, Vt., are still moving along, but construction depends on the state's pending RPS.
Cobalt Technologies' dilute acid hydrolysis pretreatment process, which extracts sugars from lignocellulosic biomass, was validated on woody biomass, bagasse and agricultural residues at an Andritz pulp and paper mill in Springfield, Ohio, recently.
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for engineered ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI) enzymes that will be used to optimize the company's biobutanol production process.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has provided financial support to three Minnesota biomass power projects that are among a group of nine recipients narrowed down from 18.
The largest advanced waste water treatment facility in the world is installing a CHP facility and has hired Pepco Energy Services to design, build and operate it.
The National Algae Association opened a new Testing Center, part of its algae production incubator program to assist new algae startup companies test commercial photobioreactors, harvesters and extraction systems before entering the algae industry.
Plenty of Pellets at Biomass Conference
March 06, 2012
Next month's International Biomass Conference & Expo will feature an entire track dedicated to pellets and densified biomass, as well as the Rocky Mountain Forest Restoration & Bioenergy Summit, which most likely will touch on the topic.
Wood pellet boilers are now classified as a conventional, primary heating source, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and consequently will now qualify for Federal Housing Authority Funding.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed legislation that amends state law to include algaculture, meaning the farming of algae, in the law governing agriculture, including those addressing county and township zoning, and current agriculture use valuation.
DDGS learning opportunity
March 06, 2012
I'll be attending a half day meeting in Des Moines to learn more about corn oil extraction and the corresponding changes to DDGS. Will I see you there?
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