DuPont Industrial Biosciences has announced plans to sell its 30 MMgy cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa. The move comes almost exactly two years after the company celebrated the grand opening of the facility in October 2015.
A research project has been carried out by a doctoral student at the University of Borås shows it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in a socioeconomically sustainable way.
A short hour north of the Montana border, the U.S. Grains Council is exploring the geographic advantage of unit trains carrying U.S. corn and distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to Canadian feedlots around Lethbridge, Alberta.
The White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the U.S. EPA's final rule to set 2018 Renewable Fuel Standard renewable volume requirements (RVOs), along with the 2019 RVO for biomass-based diesel.
Pennsylvania's travelers have expanded opportunities for filling their vehicles with renewable fuels thanks to a $7 million grant that allowed Sheetz Corp. to expand ethanol availability to 340 more fuel pumps at 77 store locations across the state.
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced an open meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee on Nov. 15-16 in Washington, D.C.
Growth Energy recently announced that in just five months, American drivers have surpassed another billion miles on E15, bringing the total miles driven across the U.S. to 2 billion. More than 1,000 fuel stations in the U.S. now offer E15.
Greenbelt Resources Corp. has agreed to perform feedstock testing with Central Coast Wine Services to test various streams of wastes generated in the winemaking process. The wastes will be tested for use as feedstock for Greenbelt's technology.
Clariant has announced the approval by its board of directors to invest in a new full-scale commercial plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues using its sunliquid technology. The new plant will be built in Romania.
Archer Daniels Midland Co. released third quarter financial results on Oct. 31, reporting increased earnings for the Bioproducts segment due to better ethanol margins. Overall, the company reported adjusted segment operating profit fell 17 percent.
Drivers of flex fuel vehicles (FFVs), which can handle higher ethanol blends up to 85 percent, now have even more places to fuel up. According to E85prices.com, there are now more than 4,000 stations throughout the U.S. offering E85.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently asked President Donald Trump to waive the Renewable Fuel Standard renewable volume obligations (RVOs) for Northeast refiners, citing high renewable identification number (RIN) prices.
The U.S. EPA has released renewable identification number (RIN) data for September, reporting that nearly 1.6 billion RINs were generated during the month, including nearly 21.36 million cellulosic RINs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently announced 17 grants for research on the next generation of agricultural technologies and systems to meet the growing demand for food, fuel, and fiber.
Some ethanol producers and marketers are taking advantage of the higher renewable identification number (RIN) values to offer denatured ethanol as low as 30 cents per gallon and E85 at 55 cents per gallon (plus tax and freight) this week.
Novozymes has released third quarter financial results, reporting a 4 percent revenue growth during the first nine months of the year. Revenue for the company's bioenergy division grew 10 percent over the same period.
Valero Energy Corp. has released third quarter financial results, reporting that its ethanol segment earned $82 million of operating income during the three-month period, down from $106 million during the same period of last year.
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization and 66 renewable chemical producers recently asked the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture to reauthorize the Farm Bill's Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Manufacturing Assistance Program.
Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits, a business unit of Lallemand Inc., has announced the acquisition of Lactic Solutions LLC, which has been developing genetically modified lactic acid bacteria products specifically for the biofuels industry.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., recently introduced legislation that aims to establish a short-term tax credit to support the production of renewable chemicals or investments in renewable chemical production facilities.
Novomer Inc. has announced plans to open a new innovation center in Rochester, New York. The facility—named the Novomer Innovation Center—is designed to meet the expanding demands of the company's growing biobased chemicals business.
For the ninth year, the Renewable Fuels Association is partnering with the Renewable Fuels Foundation to offer scholarships to students who are interested in attending the National Ethanol Conference, scheduled for Feb. 12-14 in San Antonio, Texas.
Alliance BioEnergy Plus Inc. recently announced an exclusive brokerage agreement with Progressive Fuels Ltd., an independent interdealer broker in the wholesale physical biofuel, agriculture, CCA, RIN and CARB markets.
MEPs are calling for the European Union to source 35 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030, set nationally binding targets for renewable energy, phase-out of palm oil and food-based biofuels and set biomass sustainability standards.
Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels has overcome bottlenecks associated with the feedstock pretreatment process and is now focused on downstream processing at Project Liberty, its 20 MMgy cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsberg, Iowa.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, recently announced ethanol production reached 2.02 billion liters (533.63 million gallons) during the second half of September, up 11.55 percent when compared to the same period of last year.
European ethanol producer CropEnergies AG has announced a significant increase in revenues and earnings during the first half of its 2017-'18 financial year. The increase is attributed to higher production volumes of ethanol, food and animal feed.
ICM Inc. has announced the successful startup and commissioning of Brazil's first standalone dry-mill corn ethanol plant. The FS Bioenergia plant is a joint venture between U.S.-based Summit Agricultural Group and Fiagril Ltda of Brazil.
The University of Arizona has received a $15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a new center focusing on the mass production of biofuels and bioproducts in the Southwestern U.S.
The 15-day comment period on the U.S. EPA's notice of data availability (NODA) that proposes reductions in 2018 and 2019 Renewable Fuel Standard renewable volume obligations (RVOs) closed Oct. 19. More than 5,000 comments were filed on the proposal.
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