In partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Mountain View, Calif.-based biobased n-butanol technology developer Cobalt Technologies recently completed multiple fermentation runs of its advanced biocatalyst in a 9,000-liter vessel.
Legislation that would have extended the biodiesel and renewable diesel tax incentives through the end of the year was voted down by the U.S. Senate this afternoon. The amendment to the Surface Transportation Bill was sponsored by Sen. Stabenow.
You know you live in a small town when the fact somebody went viral makes front page news.
Biomass energy production facilities that began operating before 1999 are now officially classified as renewable energy producers in the state of Washington.
After a 30-month development and construction period, a crowd of approximately 150 stakeholders and employees watched Massachusetts-based Ameresco Inc. and the U.S. DOE cut the ribbon at the Savannah River Site Biomass Cogeneration Facility.
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.
No changes to the U.S. corn balance sheet from the previous month were made to the USDA's monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report released Friday morning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Senate will be voting today or in the next couple of days whether to extend the biodiesel and renewable diesel tax credits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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