In Washington, The U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched a new energy website to provide quick access to the agency’s renewable energy and energy efficiency data. The website, usda.gov/energy, provides access to all USDA energy resources, including: agricultural, forestry, economic and social data. This is done in part through a set of new complementary web-based […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rose 1.00 percent to 74.03 as Gevo and Rentech rallied. For the day, BP gained 0.45 percent to $44.90, while Rentech advanced 5.00 percent to $1.68. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) jumped 10.48 percent to $8.12. Overall, advances led declines 3 to 2 for […]
Obama unveils an “all-out, all of the above” energy strategy. But is it really “all of the below”? Just election talk? Is ginning up a bioeconomy shelved for a year, or just a week? Meanwhile, hopeful news from Novozymes and the World Economic Forum. In Washington, President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union […]
Washington, Advanced Biofuels USA released a proposal for low cost and cost-efficient policies that should be included in the Farm Bill which will be under consideration through 2012. “We have identified two specific problem areas,” explains executive director, Joanne Ivancic. “First, the challenges of bringing small, non-contiguous marginal acreage to productivity via an energy crop […]
In Colorado, Gevo has received a patent on its GIFT separation unit, addressing the separation technology used to produce propanols, butanols, pentanols, and hexanols. The claims also address how ethanol plants can be retrofitted to produce higher alcohols. With the news, Gevo immediately sued DuPont and Butamax for infringement of the patent, claiming that the […]
In Iowa, so far 14 gas stations have applied for blender pumps grants with funds so far awarded to five stations for nine new pumps for a total of $155,000. The state legislature recently approved funding for $3.5 million over the next five years to improve ethanol infrastructure statewide.
In Canada, Pond Biofuels is piloting a new CO2 absorption system at a cement plant that will allow it to produce algae from the facility’s smokestack. The trial at St. Mary’s Cement could lead to a market breakthrough as there are 10 cement factories in Ontario alone that produce 4,000 tons of CO2 per day. […]
In Canada, CORE BioFuel has signed an exclusive agreement with Osprey Capital Partners, to secure equity investment capital to fund the completion of construction engineering for CORE’s first wood-to-Green Gasoline plant to be built in Canada. This major step will enable CORE to establish an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract; in turn, the EPC contract […]
In Colorado, Penford and Novomer have into a Joint Development Agreement to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative Starch‐Polypropylene Carbonate polymer composites. Unmodified starch use has been limited due to inherent performance characteristics but has long been targeted as a cost effective, renewable material for a broad range of packaging applications. When modified, specialty […]
In Cyprus, the ministry of agriculture is starting to explore the possibility of producing biofuels from microalgae since the island doesn’t have enough land to use for arable-based biofuels. The research is part of a six country, 12 organization research project 90% funded by the European Commission.
