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Isolux Corsan: Contract for Colombia Biofuel Facility
Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:17 PM CDT
Leading global construction company Isolux Corsan will be working with Colombia-based Bioenergy to develop a plant that will produce ethanol from sugar cane, Energy Digital reported. The facility will have an annual processing capacity of more than 2 million tons of cane and a 40 megawatt co-generation plant using bagasse or sugar cane and other facilities that will distill, mill and produce vinasse using the same raw material.
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New Tool for Improving Switchgrass
Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:10 PM CDT
Scientists now have a new tool to decipher the genetics of switchgrass in order to examine its potential as a biofuel, Science Daily reported. Researchers at an Agricultural Research Service center in Albany, California are decoding the genetic map of switchgrass in hopes it will be a more viable source of bioenergy.
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Novomer Awarded $18.4M in Federal Stimulus Funds
Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:02 PM CDT
Novomer Inc. announced Wednesday is has been awarded $18.4M in federal funding from the Department of Energy to convert waste CO2 into various sustainable polymers, Market Watch reported. The CO2 would be used to manufacture such products as bottles, films, laminates, coatings on food and beverage cans, as well as other wood and metal surface applications.
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Alfalfa Joins Feedstock Choices for Ethanol
Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:52 AM CDT
Hay could be a possible feedstock for ethanol and offset some of the environmental concerns associated with corn, according to scientists at the Department of Agriculture's Dairy Forage Research Center in St.
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Agriculture to Benefit from E15
Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:50 AM CDT
The Environmental Protection Agency reviews a proposal to approve the use of 15 percent ethanol blend as a means to meet the 2022 Renewable Fuel Standards, according to the Farmland Forecast Blog at Agweb.com.
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Zimbabwe Government to Allow Private Investment in Energy Sector
Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:30 PM CDT
Zimbabwe's government announced Tuesday it will open up the countries energy sector to private investors as independent power producers or public-private partnership arrangements, according to the Global Times.
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EU Shows Growth in Ethanol Production, Use
Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:23 PM CDT
European ethanol production is continuing to increase, Ethanol Producer reported. While ethanol production growth was nearly 60 percent in 2008, 2009 saw the European Union's production continuing to grow by 31 percent.
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Blender Pumps Get UL Certified
Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:14 PM CDT
Underwriters Laboratory has given final safety certification to new ethanol blender pumps from Dresser Wayne and Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Domestic Fuel reported. The Dresser Wayne pump has a dual hose, offering low blends on one hose for conventional vehicles and mid to high-level blends on the other hose for flexible fuel vehicles.
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Green Car Passes Test at NSS
Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:13 PM CDT
Green racing research data from the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago is proving successful, according to automotive researcher Forrest Jehlik. Jehlik has been crunching numbers collected during three days of testing at Florida's New Smyrna Speedway, the Daytona Beach News-Journal Online reported.
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Groups Rally to Fight Against E15
Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:12 PM CDT
A group of environmental organizations and companies are banding together to discourage congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from promoting widespread use of E15 ethanol blend, Biofuels International reported.
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Ethanol, Agriculture Groups Push for E12
Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:21 AM CDT
The American Coalition for Ethanol, National Corn Growers Association and the Renewable Fuels Association asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to approve the use of E12, Cattle Network in Lenexa, Kan., said, as the industry bumps up against the blend wall waiting for pending EPA approval of E15.
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Has VEETC Really Helped Ethanol Industry?
Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:19 AM CDT
A RenewableEnergyWorld.com analysis of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, or the blenders credit, said that while the credit may not have helped jump start the industry in the mid 2000s, it has likely helped ethanol companies get through tough economic times.
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The Economics of US Ethanol Policy
Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:18 AM CDT
A blog written by Iowa State University economist Bruce Babcock and published in The Hill, said the U.S. economy would be better off without the current government supports for the ethanol industry including the import tariff and the blenders credit.
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Biomass Innovation Park set for Construction
Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:17 AM CDT
Genera Energy plans to begin construction on what it is calling biomass innovation park in east Tennessee, the Knoxville News in Knoxville, Tenn., said, as part of a partnership with Dupont Danisco to produce cellulosic ethanol using corn cobs and eventually switchgrass.
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Biofuels Firm Raises $110 Million for Biomass Crude Technology
Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:16 AM CDT
Pasadena, Texas,-based KiOR Inc. raised $110 million from 13 investors in a mixed-securities offering that opened in April, according to Citybizlist.com.
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Wall Street Journal: 'Survival of the Fattest'
Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:05 AM CDT
A Wall Street Journal editorial makes the argument that ethanol subsidies are too expensive based on the carbon they replace in fossil fuels.
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Report: 'Ethanol Pumps $2.5 Billion into Minnesota Economy'
Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:04 AM CDT
The ethanol industry generated more than $2.5 billion in economic activity in 2009, according to a new report from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Bloomberg Businessweek said.
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Oil Spill Boosts Alabama Ethanol Sales
Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:03 AM CDT
Alabama motorists who drive flexible-fuel vehicles have increasingly turned to ethanol since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Florence Times Daily in Florence, Ala.
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Philippines to Allow Ethanol Imports
Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:02 AM CDT
The Philippines Energy Department plans to temporarily allow foreign ethanol imports to meet the country's 10-percent blend requirements, the Manilla Standard Today said, as the country's domestic ethanol industry has struggled to get off the ground.
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Biofuels to Help Clean up Chernobyl Land
Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:01 AM CDT
Irish company Greenfield plans to build an ethanol plant on land blighted by the nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus, The Green Car Website said. The idea is to grow crops on that land and use the crops to produce biofuels.
