In New York, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry is developing shrub willow as a renewable energy source for biobutanol production under the Willow Biomass Project. Thanks to a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and $75,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, researchers are experimenting with […]
In Washington, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies has voted to eliminate funding for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). The programs are the mechanism by which the USDA has been stimulating the production of dedicated energy crops for […]
Ceres becomes 7th advanced bioenergy company to head for the public markets in the past year. Will it fly? Should it? The risks, the rewards, the rationale. In California, energy crop breeder Ceres has filed for a $100 million IPO on Nasdaq, with Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital as underwriters. Ceres plans to trade on […]
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In Alabama, Calhoun County’s From Stovetop to Road Top program of recycling cooking oil into biodiesel has slowed with only 20 gallons of UCO collected per week from households and up to 150 gallons per week from restaurants. The county’s highway department hopes to convert about 10% of its diesel use to biodiesel and has […]
In California, Springboard Biodiesel has developed the BioPro 190 which mixes, heats and separates used cooking oil, producing ready-to-pump biodiesel in about 48 hours meaning that restaurants can begin making (and selling) biodiesel on their own instead of waiting for hobbyists to come and collect the UCO for their own use.
In Texas, Endicott Biofuels and Holly Biofuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dallas-based petroleum refiner Holly Corporation have announced their formation of Sabine Biofuels LLC to partner on a 30 million-gallon-per-year biorefinery currently under construction in Port Arthur, Texas. Sabine Biofuels will employ Davy technology which is proven, patent-protected and licensed to EBF in North America. […]
In Italy, the Global Bioenergy Partnership, a government-level organization of 23 countries, has established a set of 24 sustainability guidelines that it will introduce at the upcoming G8 meeting. In addition the Partnership has approved to launch a capacity building initiative that seeks to promote the optimum use of modern bioenergy for sustainable development. The […]
In Zambia, Black Power Investment has invested $250,000 in a biofuel plant that produces 3,000 liters per day. The company’s director said the major challenges to start up were dealing with the importation of the equipment and acquiring the resources to begin production.
In Belgium, nine partners from seven countries have joined in a project to show that ethanol, biodiesel and bioproducts can be produced from algae on a large scale. The BIOfuel From Algae Technologies (BIOFAT) project, largely funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program, aims to demonstrate that biofuels made from microalgae can offer energy […]
