A free training program in California is offering valuable continuing education training to retrain displaced workers.
After nearly five years with cellulosic ethanol developer Coskata, Wes Bolsen has left to serve as vice president and chief marketing officer for biotech outfit Codexis. Bolsen is now responsible for Codexis' corporate marketing and communications.
Codexis names Wes Bolson chief marketing officer
By Codexis
December 05, 2011
Codexis Inc. announced Wesley J. Bolsen has been named vice president and chief marketing officer. In this new position, Bolsen will have responsibility for the company's corporate marketing and communications.
Getting positives in the news
December 05, 2011
It would be great if we could see many more of these short, positive stories noting the contribution biofuels makes. Maybe as an industry we have to invent some awards.
Canadian company completes DME to green gasoline testing
By Bryan Sims
December 05, 2011
Toronto-based CORE BioFuel, with contract partner RECAT Technologies, successfully completed testing the final stage of its wood-to-biogasoline process via catalytic conversion of dimethyl ether into benzene-free, 94-octane green gasoline.
The University of Montana-Missoula has suspended indefinitely its proposed biomass power project, due to the current low cost of natural gas.
The Defense Logistics Agency will purchase 450,000 gallons of advanced drop-in biofuels for the U.S. Navy from Dynamic Fuels LLC and Solazyme Inc. in May 2012, making it the largest biofuel purchase in government history to date.
Time for Me to Say Goodbye
By Rona Johnson
December 02, 2011
What can I say, they made me an offer that I couldn't refuse and now I have to say goodbye, at least in part, to the biomass industry.
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council elected new members to the board of directors and named Joseph Seymour as executive director.
Following a reconsideration period, the U.S. EPA has proposed revisions to its Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards for certain boilers and incinerators.
Inbicon selects preferred engineering firm
December 01, 2011
Cellulosic ethanol technology developer Inbicon A/S has certified the U.S. division of Helsinki, Finland-based engineering firm Pöyry as meeting all of the quality, reliability and professional standards necessary for engineering Inbicon projects.
REX American Resources Corp. reported a 20.3 percent increase in net sales and revenues compared to the previous quarter. The numbers went from $84.5 million from $70.3 million thanks to jumps in prices for ethanol and distillers grains.
Troubled ethanol plant looks to sell water for fracking
December 01, 2011
Idled ethanol plant Bionol Clearfield LLC is working to get approval to sell some of the water it would be using for ethanol production to sell to the natural gas extraction industry for “fracking.�
Ontario Power Generation's biomass repowering project in Atikokan, Ontario, has entered the last part of the regulatory approval process: a 30-day public comment on the Ontario Ministry of Environment's review of its Certificate of Approval.
Cereplast announced a three-year distribution agreement with GAMA Plastik AS to supply bioplastic resin in Turkey. GAMA Plastik plans to purchase 200 metric tons a month of the biobased resin next year, with a significant increase in 2013.
Most recently Thomas H. Ulrich was an INL advisory scientist working with OriginOil to create a strategic partnership between the two, and he launched the first Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between OriginOil and INL.
Algae systems provider Algae.Tec Ltd. has signed a collaboration contract to build its first algae biofuels production facility in Asia. The facility will be built in Sri Lanka in conjunction with cement and building materials company Holcim Lanka.
Butamax Advanced Biofuels signed on its first early adopter, Highwater Ethanol, a 50 MMgy corn ethanol plant in Minnesota, to incorporate its isobutanol production technology.
Toronto-based CORE BioFuel, with contract partner RECAT Technologies, successfully completed testing the final stage of its wood-to-biogasoline process via catalytic conversion of dimethyl ether into benzene-free, 94-octane green gasoline.
Honeywell will invest in the company via the supply of engineering services and equipment. AliphaJet will use Honeywell controls, instrumentation and advanced solutions, including its Experion Process Knowledge Systems and UniSim process simulations.
The staff at East Kentucky Power Co-op's Dale Power Station in Winchester, Ky., is excited about a new project led by the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research that will bring algae photobioreactors to the co-op's power station.
Mobile application streamlines corn sales
November 30, 2011
A mobile application, developed the Dupont business Pioneer Hi-Bred and Farms Technology LLC, streamlines corn sales enabling growers to trade directly from their mobile devices.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued reexamination rulings on two isobutanol-related patents owned by Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, and both companies involved, Butamax and Gevo Inc., responded on Nov. 28.
Within the next two weeks, RWE npower's Tilbury, England, coal plant will be commissioned as a dedicated biomass power plant with an astonishing output of about 750 megawatts.
Just months after announcing development of a new pellet mill in North Carolina, Enviva LP announced another new facility, this time for Courtland, Va.
The Biomass Power Association joined with the 1603 Coalition Nov. 30 to sign onto a letter to Congressional leadership urging the extension of the Department of the Treasury's Section 1603 Program.
As requested by ePURE, the European Producers Union of Renewable Ethanol, the European Commission has launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in response to dramatic increases in imports of U.S. ethanol.
Winnebago, Minn.,-based Corn Plus LLLP pleaded guilty on Nov. 23 to charges that it violated the Clean Air Act by delivering falsified emissions reports to the U.S. EPA earlier this year and on multiple occasions in 2010.
Expanding Ports for Pellets
November 29, 2011
A number of ports in the U.S. are expanding their capacities to handle wood pellets, allowing them to take part in the exploding global pellet market.
A vote by the Springfield, Mass., City Council to appeal the building commissioner's approval of permits for a 35-megawatt biomass power plant has been delayed by a call for a financial impact analysis.
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