People, Partnerships & Deals
December 12, 2011
Enterprising retail operators install E85 pumps despite pricing uncertainties
Researchers investigate enzyme movement to improve ethanol production
The Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy is using a $4.8 million grant to purchase advanced harvesting equipment. The first piece of equipment purchased was a Stinger Stacker 6500 bale�handling truck.
Farmers harvest biomass, delivery on hold
SIGMA joins group seeking alternative fuel credit
EU joins China in investigating U.S. ethanol trade practices
December 12, 2011
Shell scouts commercial-scale cellulosic opportunities
It's been a bumpy road to full-scale adoption of anaerobic digestion technologies at ethanol plants
A look back at a year of booming U.S.imports to Brazil and ahead to increased U.S.-Brazil ethanol exchanges
December 12, 2011
Ethanol really is a success story in capitalism – a story of entrepreneurs and dreamers who envisioned a way to use abundant supplies of corn and address the need to build a little energy security into the equation.
Pacific Ethanol Inc. has signed with a group of institutional investors to raise $8 million in a private placement transaction and acquired an additional 7 percent ownership stake in the Pacific Ethanol production facilities.
Getting the waiver was easy, compared to the work required to fulfill requirements for E15 implementation
The second annual U.K. Biomass Directory has been released, and it indicates that the country is in line to meet its goal of producing 10 percent of its energy with biomass by 2050.
The Mediterranean island of Malta may soon combine waste biomass sourced from olive production with carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS), making the country one of the only in the world to operate on a carbon negative energy balance.
The U.K. Committee on Climate Change has released its Bioenergy Review, which finds that without bioenergy the country is not likely to meet its long-term emissions goals.
Letters for and against an amendment that would prevent the U.S. EPA from using appropriated funds to implement the E15 waiver have recently been sent to leadership of the Appropriations Committees.
Cellulosic ethanol technology developer Mascoma Corp. has finalized an agreement with petroleum refiner Valero Energy Corp. to finance the construction and start-up of its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Michigan.
The U.S. Grains Council's latest DDGS promotion in China was a successful pair of workshops in Guangzhou and Qingdao. Despite the anti-dumping investigation, China is still the No. 2 export market for U.S. distillers grains.
December 09, 2011
The Maximum Achievable Control Technology rules have been proposed, released, rereleased, revised and reconsidered. And it's getting ridiculous.
The Renewable Fuels Association says free ethanol trade between the U.S. and Brazil cannot be achieved until Brazil addresses its trade distortion measures.
Days Creek School in Douglas County, Ore., sped through a typically months-long process in roughly a week, becoming a biomass user capable of reaping the benefits the county's forest economy can offer.
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