Land for Largest Field of Switchgrass for Bioenergy Acquired
Oklahoma has secured 1,100 acres of land for the world's largest stand of switchgrass devoted to cellulosic ethanol production. Planting will take place within the next 45 days. Switchgrass is a...
View ArticleGM Invests in Mascoma
General Motors Corp. and Mascoma Corp. today announced a strategic relationship to develop cellulosic ethanol focused on Mascoma's single-step biochemical conversion of non-grain biomass into...
View ArticleNew Planet Energy to assume Florida Ethanol Project
A number of announcements have been made in the within the last month involving two of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) EPAct 932 grant winners.First, on May 8th, Iogen announced that it was not...
View ArticleRoadmap for bioenergy & biobased products in the U.S.
At last year's Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy I met Dr. Larry Walker for the first time. I had heard of him because one of his responsibilities is managing the...
View ArticleINEOS Bio to license syngas fermentation technology
INEOS Group Holdings PLC, one of the three largest chemical conglomerates in the world, has announced the July 1, 2008 formation of a new company, INEOS Bio, whose initial focus will be the...
View ArticleBlueFire Ethanol to build in California
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. received a conditional use permit from the County of Los Angeles, Department of Regional Planning, for the operation of a new biorefinery it will build on a 10 acre lot near...
View ArticlePulp & Paper Industry: The bird's nest of bioenergy?
One prominent feature of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) is its renewable fuel standard that sets the trajectory for satisfying America's newfound thirst for alternative fuels. 36...
View ArticleComments on Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Thomas Friedman has a terrific platform from which to interview energy experts globally, write opinion pieces that are distributed through the New York Times, and participate in the production of cable...
View ArticleQteros - Raises $25 million, Changes Company Name
SunEthanol, a company that is developing microbes to produce cellulosic ethanol, announced on Nov. 18 that has raised $25 million in Series B financing and that it is changing its name to Qteros Inc....
View ArticleGalvanizing Congress to move renewable energy forward
On December 5th, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) hosted its annual Phase II meeting in Washington D.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives Cannon Caucus Room. Its theme this year was...
View ArticleThe Impact on Renewable Energy from Obama's Nominations
Who ARE those guys? The bad news is that the economic crisis threatens to suspend deployment of renewable energy facilities. Coupled with the meteoric drop in fossil fuel prices - one of the key...
View ArticleEveryone Hates Ethanol?
It is a sad day when even the Wall Street Journal takes a page from the petroleum industry playbook and chop blocks the only national defense that makes a dent in their monopoly on supplying fuel to...
View ArticleEconomic Impacts of Biofuel Development
The impact of biofuel development should be significant to the economy of any nation that successfully deploys it. By becoming more energy self-sufficient, the balance of trade of otherwise...
View ArticleJoin ACORE's Biomass Coordinating Council
The Biomass Coordinating Council of the American Council of Renewable Energy is an ever-present resource and meeting place for biomass professionals - or anyone who wishes to be engaged in the issues...
View ArticleBias in California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is a good initiative but it is flawed in its current form. Consider:Ethanol is an alcohol with a fairly simple, universal formula regardless of how it is...
View ArticleDirty oil's direct land change impact
Photograph by Peter Essick for National Geographic magazine.Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.So...
View ArticleSplitting the Baby on E15
I've been going over the EPA's ruling yesterday partially granting the waiver request from Growth Energy, an ethanol trade association, to allow gasoline with up to 15% ethanol to be used in cars not...
View Article2011 Renewable Fuels Standards Set
The EPA has finalized the 2011 percentage standards for the four categories of fuel under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). As such, each producer and importer of gasoline and diesel determines the...
View ArticleSenators Write Letter Supporting Ethanol Incentives
While a group of senators yesterday urged an end to ethanol incentives, another group sent a letter supporting an extension of the current tax credit and associated tariff.The letter, sent to Senate...
View ArticleTurning Biomass into Power or Fuel
This morning I ran across a news item indicating that Dow Chemical was installing a biomass cogeneration unit at its facility in Aratu, Brazil to provide process steam with minimal greenhouse gas...
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