In Washington, President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million during the next three years in partnership with the private sector to produce advanced drop-in aviation and marine biofuels to power military and commercial transportation. Reaction from industry was swift and generally enthusiastic. In today’s […]
In Florida, Neste Oil joined Dow and Raizen among big biotech brands currently trailing in first-round match-ups in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament. Currently, #14 seed Abengoa Bioenergy leads #3 Raizen 54-46 in the International Regional, while DSM has pulled ahead of Neste Oil 55-45. 32 first round battles will continue in the voting until […]
In California, Josh and Rebecca Tickell – who brought America the VeggieVan and Sundance award winning documentary FUEL – have recently released their new film FREEDOM that looks at how biofuels and hybrids can transform transportation to help get America off its addiction to oil. To promote the film, they are traveling the US (and […]
In Indiana, Schneider’s Town Council President sees about a 50% chance that the planned Powers Energy of America $280 million MSW-to-ethanol facility planned for the town will actually come through. Missed groundbreaking dates and a lack of environmental permit applications during the three years since the project was signed with the county’s solid waste officials […]
In Indiana, a US district court judge will begin hearing arguments on the consolidated case for alleged GreenShift patent infringements on Aug. 22. Reports show that 15 ethanol plants have been named in the case including those by ICM, GEA Westfalia Separator, GEA Mechanical, and Flottweg Separation Technology that claim the companies infringed on GreenShift’s […]
In New Zealand, LanzaTech has signed an agreement with Pennsylvania-based Harsco to develop plans to present the LanzaTech biotechnology to Harsco’s major steel mill customers and explore potential business relationships for installing and operating commercial facilities at selected sites throughout the world. The agreement with Harsco will now accelerate the introduction of this technology to […]
In the Philippines, the government is considering extending its push for using locally-produced coconut oil as a feedstock for biodiesel when it bumps its blending mandate to 10% in 2015. Coconut biodiesel is currently blended at 2% but a recent study shows that selling the coconut oil into the industry could earn farmers $23.5 million […]
In Malaysia, Chevron’s biodiesel blending facility in Pulau Indah has come online and already 29 service stations in Melaka and Negeri Sembilan offering B5 biodiesel with Techron D. The company expects 73 to come by November when the government has mandated B5 across the country’s Central region.
In South Dakota, the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center is recommending four projects to the DOE to approve funding. The projects will involve using perennial grasses and woody perennials for the production of biofuel. One project in particular will examine the use of winter rye, which would be planted after the corn harvest and […]
In Texas, a change in law came into effect on Aug. 1 that is expected to increase biodiesel blending in the state thanks to a more straightforward way of tracking biodiesel use, and therefore qualifying for a tax exemption. Previously, oil companies were required to track and report biodiesel blending to the tenth-of-a-percent but the […]
