In Colombia, construction is set to begin during the first quarter of 2012 on the country’s first sugarbeet ethanol production plant. The facility, which will be located in the region of Boyacá, is expected to produce 300,000 liters of ethanol per day and is intended for use in the domestic market. The company has done […]
In California, Ucan announced the launch of its Untrash Can and the Untrash Bags for residential food recycling. The can is for recycling food waste, using the Untrash Bag. The Untrash Bag is made with Mirel, a plant based compostable material that has the durability and strength of plastic but is 100 percent compostable and […]
Today on Twitter. ENERGY: Got questions about biofuels? Join us this Friday at 1 PM EST for a live Q+A with the head of our Biomass Program, Dr. Valerie Reed. Altfuelgirl: Drop-in Biofuels Take Flight in Commerce City, Colorado | Department of Energy CareerAndBizOps: BIO Asks Senate Committee to Target Tax Credits to Advanced Biofuel […]
Today on Twitter. ENERGY: Got questions about biofuels? Join us this Friday at 1 PM EST for a live Q+A with the head of our Biomass Program, Dr. Valerie Reed. Altfuelgirl: Drop-in Biofuels Take Flight in Commerce City, Colorado | Department of Energy CareerAndBizOps: BIO Asks Senate Committee to Target Tax Credits to Advanced Biofuel […]
In Washington state, partially in thanks to the $80 million, five year USDA grant to the University of Washington and Washington State University for biofuels research, a drop-in fuel pilot plant at WSU-Tri Cities is under development that is intended to be feedstock agnostic. The facility could be commercial scale in five years.
In the Philippines, the Dept. of Agriculture is talking to San Carlos Bioenergy, who currently produces ethanol from molasses, to start producing ethanol from sweet sorghum in order to boost sweet sorghum production in the province of Negros Occidental. Discussions are regarding a new commercial-scale facility. In coordination with International Crops Research Institute for the […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 1.66 percent to 68.53 as global equities tumbled. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) dropped 1.47 percent to $27.64, while Solazyme (SZYM) downshifted 5.31 percent to $11.05. Among other equities, Biofuel Energy (BIOF) shed 6.78 percent to $0.55. Overall, declines led advances […]
All throughout the year, your questions have been drifting in to the Digest’s in-box. Job-hunting, capital-raising, data gathering, policy-predicting, technology-snooping, bona-fides-checking. Which are the biggest ones yet unanswered? Your calls and emails are always the highlight of our days. Most questions can be answered johnny-on-the-spot. Some are still out there and well worth arguing over. […]
In Georgia, the city of Smyrna is will open a biodiesel plant in January that will produce fuel from used cooking oil collected from the community. The biodiesel will be used to fuel public vehicles with the intention of reducing fossil fuel consumption of service vehicles by 25% by 2020, fossil fuel emissions by 25% […]
In Wisconsin, the state’s biofuel association is promoting on-farm, small-scale biofuel production for farmers to produce their own fuel for running their equipment, producing heat, or selling it. The most common is 50-gallon-per-day seed presses that produce vegetable oil from soybeans or canola though some farmers are experimenting with ethanol from sorghum.
