In Ohio, the 60 MGY Coshocton Ethanol plant is expected to re-start production sometime during the first quarter of 2011 after being mothballed in January 2009. Most of the 40 or so employees who were laid off when the facility was shut but they will be called to see if they want their jobs back. […]
In Minnesota, the Algal Biomass Organization says that algae biofuels will be competitive with oil within seven years. Currently production costs are between $140 and $900 per barrel. Legislation under consideration in Congress would extend the $1.01 per gallon production credit given to cellulosic biofuel producers to their algal cousins. More on the story.
In New York, the Greater Rochester Enterprise economic development organization is fundraising $150 million for a venture capital fund that will support local green industry. The fund will be managed by U.S. Renewables Group, a 7-year-old private equity firm that focuses on renewable energy investments and already manages $750 million. US Renewables is the primary […]
In Peru, Maple Energy says it is confident that its ethanol facility will be up and running by the second half of 2011. Though the company says there is a lot of work ahead before start-up that it is confident that it will be a low-cost, globally competitive producer due to its technology and feedstock. […]
In Zimbabwe, the first phase of the Chisumbanje ethanol project expects to be online by March with 350,000 liters of production per day before later scaling up to 700,000 liters per day. Already 60% of the boiler section is finished and engineers have been contracted for a month’s worth of pre-commissioning evaluation before the facility […]
GreenEnergyNews: Biofuels Technology Magazine – Bio-methanol As A Second Generation Biofuel nathanschock: BIOFPR article estimates that 13.2 million ha of mostly fallow ground are available in the EU to produce biofuels: jongelbard: The implications of increasing biofuels production for water use and quality gwhoax: Al Gore does 180 on ethanol, admits that its a waste […]
In California, the Air Resources Board (CARB) is taking into account new studies looking at Indirect Land Use Change that will end up cutting the ILUC penalty on corn ethanol by at least half by the spring. A Purdue study that CARB is basing its revised rulemaking on shows ILUC of 14-18g of CO2/MJ compared […]
In Greece, former US Vice President Al Gore has said that supporting first generation corn ethanol was a mistake. He said that energy ratios for first generation ethanol are too small but that he was thinking about Tennessee and Iowa farmers in his presidential bid, so supporting ethanol then made sense. But now that the […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged up 0.08 percent to 75.52 as ethanol declines offset advanced biofuels gains. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 0.03 percent to $29.67, while Codexis (CDXS) gained 1.09 percent to $10.20. Among other equities, GreenHunter (GRH) jumped 8.40 percent to $1.29. Overall, […]
At Advanced Biofuels Markets, the Cellulosic Biofuels Summit and most of the other conferences this year, the talk has been all about cheap sugar – the simple sugars that form the feedstock that is fermented into biofuels and renewable chemicals. There are a proliferating number of technologies for accessing sugars, or fermenting them. There are […]
