The European renewable ethanol industry association, ePURE, recently spoke out to criticize a new European Energy Security Strategy that fails to recognize the importance of domestically produced ethanol in meeting energy security needs.
Driven by aggressive mandates, government support and cost advantages, China and India, the world's two most populous countries, dominate Asia's alternative fuels landscape, according to Lux Research.
Leading swine nutritionist, University of Minnesota professor Jerry Shurson, discusses low-oil DDGS and growth performance on pigs.
Produced by BBI International, the FEW has 500 plus producers from 194 facilities, representing more than 15 billion gallons of ethanol already registered to attend.
The European Commission came to a decision June 4 to apply anti-dumping duties on all U.S. ethanol coming to the European Union through Norway, according to ePURE, the European Renewable Ethanol Association.
Produced by BBI International, the 2014 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo begins June 9th and features more than 140 speakers and four highly informative track sessions.
Aventine Renewable Energy Inc., a producer, marketer and end-to-end supplier of ethanol, has announced its first railcar shipment of ethanol produced at its Aurora West facility in Aurora, Nebraska, using sugar-based only feedstock.
The summer driving season is now hitting the U.S., and the Senior Vice President for the American Coalition for Ethanol, Ron Lamberty, says many motorists might not realize it, but they could be eligible to get a little extra savings at the pump.
Even with record high ethanol prices, blending margins stayed mostly positive, according to U of Ill Scott Irwin, which speaks to the firmly entrenched position of ethanol as the cheapest source of octane currently available for E10 gasoline blends.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced that mills in the country's south-central region processed only 23.89 million tons of sugarcane during the final half of April, down 25.69 percent from the previous year.
Planting progress will have an impact the DDGS market. But it's not as big as what's happening in China, a hot export market for the ethanol coproduct.
Over the next 8 years, biofuels are expected to become an important part of the fuel mix for road transportation, accounting for 7.5 percent of liquid fuels consumed in the sector by 2022.
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance in cooperation with (S&T)2 Consultants Inc. released their Global Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions Reduction Forecast for 2014., predicting ethanol use will reduce GHG emissions 106 metric million tons this year.
European ethanol producer Crop Energies AG has reported financial results for its financial year 2013/14, which closed Feb. 28. According to the company, its revenue increased by 13 percent during the year. Crop Energies operates four ethanol plants.
It appears ethanol and gasoline markets will be contained in a moderate trading range through the end of May, with traders focusing on uncertainty about summer demand support.
On May 21, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association joined Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds and several renewable fuels and agriculture industry leaders at Poet Biorefining-Coon Rapids to celebrate the signing of Senate File 2344.
Producers had one week in early May to get 59 percent of the corn crop planted. Unfortunately, emergence may slow as cold and wet weather prevailed the second week of May.
Knowing how the supply and cost of natural gas will affect a company's operations is key to planning and weathering curtailment.
RINs aren't a tax paid to the government or a premium paid to ethanol producers, writes Jim Miller of Growth Energy. They are free to renewable energy producers and are purchased by obligated parties with RIN shortages.
The bullying from Big Oil won't stop until the industry says "enough," writes Ron Lamberty, in a column about E15 and what gas station owners think of the fuel.
Jeff Hove, vice president of RINAlliance, talks about the complex world of RFS compliance and RIN management.
A closer look at the organizations that speak for Hoosier corn growers in Indiana. Meet two staff members and two farmer board members.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has noted the Iowa Department of Revenue's recently released 2013 Retailers Motor Fuel Gallons Annual Report shows vast growth in the use of higher-level blends of ethanol and biodiesel in 2013.
Pending legislation in New Hampshire aims to limit corn ethanol in gasoline to 10 percent. The bill passed the state House of Representatives and was introduced in the state Senate. The Senate Committee on Transportation recently held a hearing.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has slightly increased its ethanol production forecast for this year in the May issue of its Short Term Energy Outlook. The EIA now predicts ethanol production will average 911,000 barrels per day in 2014.
A recent report published in Nature Geoscience claims a 20 percent reduction in ozone when drivers in Brazil switched from ethanol to gasoline. A review conducted by Steve VanderGriend at the Urban Air Initiative shows the study is misleading.
Ethanol profits have been off-the-chart, peaking in late March and just recently dropping back, University of Illinois economist Scott Irwin wrote in his latest analysis of the industry in FarmDocDaily.
U.S. imports of sugarcane ethanol from Brazil fell by 40 percent last year, to 242 million gallons. Because Brazil is the largest source of ethanol imports into the United States, this drop led the United States to be a net exporter of the product.
In the fall, the USDA published an article in its science magazine, Agricultural Research, about a highly absorbent, clumping and odor controlled kitty litter made out of processed distillers grains. That got my attention pretty fast.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association recently attended Farmers Cooperative Co.'s groundbreaking ceremony at the future site of its new Mount Ayr renewable fuels retail location that will offer higher blends of ethanol and biodiesel to motorists.
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