Produced by BBI International, the agenda for the 30th annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo includes more than 140 speakers and four highly informative track sessions.
Waste-to-energy firm Fiberight LLC is beginning construction of its waste processing facility in Marion, Iowa. "We are now building," said Craig Stuart-Paul, chief executive of the company, noting that workers are scheduled to be onsite April 7.
Glacial Lakes Energy LLC announced it will be upgrading and expanding corn handling areas at both its Watertown, S.D., and Mina, S.D., facilities to improve the company's corn procurement strategy and customer service.
Gevo Inc. has released 2013 financial results, reporting total revenues of $17.91 million for the year. The company also announced it will produce both ethanol and isobutanol concurrently at its plant in Luverne, Minn.
Aemetis Inc. has released its 2013 financial results, reporting revenues of $177.5 million. The company said it has been consistently operating its Keyes, Calif., plant above nameplate capacity since improvements were completed in May 2013.
Pinal Energy LLC in Maricopa, Ariz., is back online after being down for the past year and half. Improvements made during the facility's downtime have allowed it to restart at 60 MMgy of capacity, up from 50 MMgy.
Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. has announced its Otter Tail ethanol plant restarted production on March 16. The 60 MMgy facility located near Fergus Falls, Minn., was temporarily idled after a March 10 fire.
California-based Pixley Biogas has been given final approval for a $4.68 million dollar grant from the California Energy Commission. The anaerobic digester will take in dairy farm manure as substrate and supply power to an adjacent ethanol plant.
Sweetwater Energy and Proterro, two companies using widely different approaches, aim for low-cost sugar that may give today's corn ethanol plants a glide path into advanced ethanol production. They're in different stages, but share similar promise.
Learning while producing, KiOR plans to invest another $10 million to maximize production at its commercial-scale cellulosic biofuel plant in Mississippi. The company is building a foundation of operational and R&D experience for long-term success.
Following multiyear feedstock procurement campaigns and vast investments of capital, resources and time, America's first big cellulosic ethanol plants are nearing startup. EPM examines the progress of the Abengoa, Poet-DSM and DuPont facilities.
Call me Pollyanna, but I'd much prefer to write a good news story than to dwell on negativity, any day.
Aventine Renewable Energy is in the midst of a two-year strategic plan to bring its two ethanol plants located in Pekin, Ill., back up to and above original production levels.
Pacific Ethanol Inc., the leading marketer and producer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the Western United States, announced plans to restart production at its 40 million gallon per year facility in Madera, Calif.
Natural gas prices have pushed up above $4.50 for the prompt NYMEX contract. That will be sufficient to limit natural gas consumption for power generation, but the demand reduction from fuel switching may also not be enough to rebuild inventories.
The passage of the Farm Bill will positively impact the biomass industry and help to spur on additional development of renewable energy, according to several leading biomass companies and organizations that praised the long-awaited bill.
Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. reported its best quarter ever in its fourth quarter earnings report, producing a record 209.6 million gallons of ethanol and hitting 100 percent of its daily average capacity.
Pine Lake Corn Processors LLC has extended its ethanol marketing agreement with Murex LLC. Under the agreement, Murex will purchase 100 percent of Pine Lake's production and market and move it to market.
Although expensive, fluorescent microscopy provides colorful insights on bacteria and yeast, the tiny organisms that impact ethanol production. Now, the arrival of budget-friendly models may put the technology in reach of more plant laboratories.
United Ethanol LLC has temporarily ceased ethanol production at its 48 MMgy plant in Milton, Wis., following a fire that broke out in a grain drying tower on Jan. 12. It is currently unclear how many days the plant will remain idle.
Ontario-based Just Energy Group Inc. has closed on the sale of Terra Grain Fuels Inc. to a group of undisclosed Saskatchewan businesses. The 150 MMly plant, located in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, is expected to continue operations.
An idle ethanol plant in South Bend, Ind., is expected to resume operations this year following the completion of retrofit activities that kicked off in December. The 100 MMgy plant was purchased by Noble Americas South Bend Ethanol LLC in 2013.
Glacial Lakes Energy began using its scorecard early in 2012 to track performance at the company's two plants. As the program took off, the management team rolled out a certified operator training regimen last year to further boost its metrics.
Quality assurance programs in ethanol plant labs is the primary and most immediate feedback tool for monitoring plant efficiencies and internal practices, but only when procedural accuracy and precision are in place and working right.
The iconic variability-reduction system developed by Motorola in the 1980s is helping several U.S. ethanol plants and industry service providers boost operational performance and improve their bottom line results.
Rex American Resources Corp. has released its financial results for the third quarter of 2013, reporting a gross profit increase of 386 percent compared to the same period of last year. The company holds ownership interest in seven ethanol plants.
Ineos Bio has provided an update on the operations at its Indian River BioEnergy Center, reporting the facility has made significant operational progress and is steadily moving towards stable operations in 2014.
The Oshkosh, Wis.-based Fox River Valley Ethanol plant has resumed operations. Ace Ethanol LLC purchased the 52 MMgy plant from Utica Energy LLC in August. The facility had been idle since September 2012.
Enerkem has announced that commissioning is gradually beginning at its full-scale municipal waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facility in Edmonton. This update was shared by Enerkem CEO Vincent Chornet at the Canadian Renewable Fuels Summit.
The Federal Trade Commission has published its annual report on the status of domestic ethanol production, noting that 158 firms are either producing ethanol or are likely to begin producing ethanol in the next 12 to 18 months.
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