Sweetwater Energy Inc. and Naturally Scientific Technologies Ltd. are expanding their relationship, announcing a joint venture to produce sugar from carbon dioxide. The joint venture will add flexibility synergies to Sweetwater's business model.
A group of 30 biomass companies and organizations recently wrote to four congressmen supporting mandatory funding for Farm Bill Energy Title programs. The letter highlighted the economic benefits those programs can bring to rural areas.
After the drought of 2012, ethanol producers saw a strong increase in grind margins, better ethanol netbacks and decreased feedstock costs in the first two quarters of 2013, according to a recently Christianson & Associates PLLP report.
Genscape LandViewer released its October corn yield projection this week, revising its yield upwards to 13.3 billion bushels, which would be a 150 bushel-per-acre average national yield. The estimate is on the low end of many analysts' projections.
UNICA, the sugarcane industry association of Brazil, recently reported that rains are slowing the sugarcane harvest in South-Central Brazil. However, the quantity of sugarcane processed and volume of ethanol produced are still up from last year.
I have a message for environmentalists that discount grain-based ethanol. The first-generation ethanol industry is producing biofuels today and it will be, in combination with the advanced biofuel industry, into the future.
A nearly 20 MMgy cellulosic ethanol facility in Crescentino, Italy, officially opened in early October, making it both the first and the largest commercial-scale facility of its kind in the world.
Two cellulosic ethanol developers are about to go prime time, turning garbage into biofuel at separate facilities in Canada and the U.S.
Ineos Bio brings the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the U.S. online in Florida.
A primer outlinines the inherent challenges for biofuel production using biomass
The relationship between biofuels and food prices is once again a topic of debate in Europe. The United Nations Committee on World Food Security kicked off its annual meeting on Oct. 7 in Rome, and biofuel policy is on the agenda.
UNICA, the sugarcane association of Brazil, has revised its sugarcane forecast for the 2013-'14 season, reducing the crush estimate by 0.44 percent, from 589.6 million metric tons to 587 million metric tons.
A second ethanol plant announced Oct. 1 it had agreed to purchase sugar through the Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers. Pacific Ethanol Inc. joins Front Range Energy LLC in taking advantage of the program.
Proterro Inc. recently announced it has met key new development milestones. "We scaled up our novel photobioreactor design and conducted independent functionality tests that confirmed the unit's robustness," said Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin.
Sorghum lines underwent adaptation to be grown in temperate climates decades ago. Now, a University of Illinois researcher and his team have completed the first comprehensive genomic analysis of the molecular changes behind that adaptation.
Greenbelt Resources Corp. and its subsidiary Diversified Ethanol Corp. have announced their investment in a research effort with California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo focused on fermentation testing related to ethanol feedstocks.
DuPont Pioneer experts warn that the environment will become increasingly ideal for ear molds if the weather brings cooler temperatures and periodic rains as we head into harvest.
DuPont Pioneer experts warn that the environment will become increasingly ideal for ear molds if the weather brings cooler temperatures and periodic rains as we head into harvest.
The rollout of Syngenta's Enogen corn benefits both farmers growing the hybrid grain and ethanol plants using it to produce biofuel.
Considering the prospects for the corn and ethanol markets ahead.
There are many interesting potential feedstocks for advanced ethanol. One of a handful I'm particularly interested in is energy beets.
Rick Tolman examines stereotypes, praises NASCAR as industry spokespeople and pushes for a 300-bushel national yield average, as head of the National Corn Growers Association.
Stepping back to compare the agricultural boom of the 1970s to the current period brings new perspective to the discussions swirling around food, fuel and the environment.
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