In Colorado, Gevo has signed an off-take and marketing agreement with Land O’Lakes Purina Feed for the sale of isobutanol distillers grains (iDGs) from Gevo’s isobutanol production facility at Luverne, Minnesota. Land O’Lakes Purina Feed will be the exclusive marketer of Gevo’s isobutanol dried and modified wet distillers grains for the animal feed market. Further, […]
In Colorado, the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) today announced formation of a strategic business relationship with BioJet International. CERT is comprised of 57 sovereign Indian tribes as members. CERT members collectively own and manage more than 30% of the coal west of the Mississippi and 10% of known national oil and gas reserves […]
In Illinois, Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research (CABER) in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign is offering an online class in bioenergy systems for the Spring 2012 semester. The online class will meet January 17 – May 6 on Tuesdays from 6:30-9:00 p.m. CST. Topics […]
In Germany, Lufthansa has announced that its flight trial from Frankfurt to Washington on Jan. 12 will be its last using renewable jetfuel because it hasn’t been able to secure long-term sources of the biofuel. With this flight alone, Lufthansa expects to reduce CO2 emissions by 38 tonnes, equivalent to the CO2 emissions of six […]
Today on Twitter. EIAgov: Have an energy data question? Ask us: @EIAgov Govtonline: Govt Online Update: Biofuels become a victim of own success – but not for long | Damian Carrington: Sean_OHanlon: Deciphering the Black Box of Next-Generation #Biofuels GetsGreased: It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for more Obama regime extortion. Fines for not using non-existent […]
Today on Twitter. EIAgov: Have an energy data question? Ask us: @EIAgov Govtonline: Govt Online Update: Biofuels become a victim of own success – but not for long | Damian Carrington: Sean_OHanlon: Deciphering the Black Box of Next-Generation #Biofuels GetsGreased: It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for more Obama regime extortion. Fines for not using non-existent […]
In California, another set of researchers at the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute has made a breakthrough on the production of bisabolane as a potential replacement for #2 diesel by determining the three-dimensional crystal structure of a protein that is key to boosting its microbial-based production.
In South Dakota, the state Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) this week is hosting meetings for petroleum retailers, to introduce the state’s new Ethanol Infrastructure Incentive Grant Program. The program was created to help station owners defray the cost of installation of ethanol blender pumps, which offer consumers a greater variety of fuel choices, […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, zoomed 1.25 percent to 71.35 despite poor results at Cargill which shook the agribusiness sector. For the day, BP was up 0.73 percent to $44.39, while Aventine Renewables (AVRW) plunged 11.71 percent to $4.90. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) surged 6.46 percent to $5.54. […]
In Iowa, the Renewable Energy Group now plans to launch its Nasdaq Global Market IPO at between $13 and $15 a share. The maximum proceeds from the offering are expected to be $124.2 million, with an expected net to the company of $87 million. The company now says it plans to use $12 million from […]
