SustainableNet: Corn-based fuel still a target on national stage – Mason City Globe Gazette GLGNewsEnergy: America is addicted to “X generation” subsidies: America is wasting money on biofuels “generations” which do not… SustainableNet: World starves as Americans burn food – The Australian JohnBoehner: We should do more to develop our own #energy resources to lower […]
In Connecticut, UConn professor Richard Parnas has patented a biodiesel reactor that uses gravity, heat, and natural chemical reactions to make the biodiesel and separate the glycerol in one step rather than the traditional two-step method that requires mechanical removal of the glycerol. The existing facility produces about 2,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel a year. […]
In Washington, Rachel Gantz of OPIS is reporting that leaders of the Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, the American Coalition for Ethanol and the National Corn Growers Association have agreed to a three-year sunsetting of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC). They propose to replace the VEETC, in year four, with a variable credit […]
In Illinois, Archer Daniels Midland has appointed Juan R. Luciano as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, leading the company’s global operations and commercial activities. Luciano was EVP of the Dow Chemical Company. More on the story. LanzaTech has appointed Jennifer McFarlane as CFO; she was formerly CFO of ClearSpot Energy. More on the […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, soared 2.03 percent to a 32-month high of 91.43 as oil and large caps advanced slowly. The BDI has jumped more than 100 percent since its all-time low of 42.84 on 3/3/09. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) climbed 2.63 percent to $35.88, […]
In just a few days, the largest and broadest collection of speakers and attendees in bioenergy and its related fields comes together at World Biofuels Markets, and in just a few weeks the industry’s leadership gathers at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference. We do so just as the advanced biofuels sector approaches a crossroads that […]
In addition to the presentations from more than 60 speakers and networking opportunities at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference this year, here’s a look at special events throughout the week in DC, April 18-22, 2011. 1. Tuesday, 4/19. Special Interactive Leadership Workshop on Government Policy. This year, we’ll be joined by the leadership of USDA, […]
Amongst the various projects that received support under the 2009 Recovery Act — a drop-in biofuels R&D consortium called the NABC. The NABC’s $50 million, three-year mission: to explore new biofuels, to seek out new processes and new opportunities in yield and performance, to boldly go where no consortium had gone before. Within three years, […]
In Missouri, the American Soybean Association has raised concerns with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk over the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED), particularly the part that is keeping American soybeans out of Europe for biofuel production. The RED says soy-based biodiesel doesn’t meet its 35% minimum […]
In Iowa, the new owners of the Keokuk biodiesel plant are giving the facility a facelift to bring its 4 million ton per year glycerin refining operations back online, focusing on what it sees is an immediate market for glycerin products —creating instant cash flow—rather than the focus on the facility’s biodiesel mainstay. The facility […]
