Impossible to cross? Or merely inconvenient to incumbents? In today’s Digest, we look at what the oil industry has termed the “ethanol blend wall” to find the stones with which it is constructed and the windows that might provide access to wonders on the other side. It was the last speech that John F. Kennedy […]
The long and sometimes perilous journey to financing Enerkem’s first commercial project appears to have reached the sunny shores of Completionland. We look at what it took. In Canada, Enerkem announced that it has closed a $37.5 million financing with Waste Management of Canada Corporation, a subsidiary of Waste Management, and EB Investments for Enerkem […]
Front Range becomes third ethanol plant in 3 weeks to head for cost reductions, RIN opportunities with advanced feedstocks, technology. Sweetwater Energy’s deal-flow-a-go-go. In New York, Sweetwater Energy announced a 15-year commercial agreement with Colorado-based Front Range Energy, to supply renewable sugars for up to 3.6 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year during the […]
In Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement today regarding the announcement that he will continue his service in the Obama Administration. “President Obama and I share a deep appreciation for rural America and its unlimited potential in the years ahead to feed a growing world population, revolutionize America’s energy, further protect our […]
Strong biofuels flight results, advances in algae, new commitments in venture capital and revived interest from the Canadian Navy. Biofuels are off to a fast start in 2013 in Canada. Canada’s been known for years as the home of several important technology players – Iogen, for one; but more recently, Greenfield Ethanol has been aiming […]
Bio-Refinery Begins Operations Turning Co-Cropping into Fuels, Chemicals Deep in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam a small bio-refinery is converting seaweed into protein, fuel-blendable alcohol, and a bacterial soil product. It is part of a bio-economy demonstration that is also enhancing shrimp quality and yield by co-cropping naturally-occurring aquatic plants as a bio-chemical feedstock. […]
It’s showtime for drop-in fuels, oils in a wave of USDA co-investments — and a shift in philosophy to from “Make New” to “Make Do”. On Friday, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $25 million in R&D grants via the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and its Biomass Research and Development Initiative, established […]
The US Ethanol Fleet reinvents as super-advanced technologies target the old fleet for new purposes. For some time, perhaps one of the toughest assets to manage in the Western World — possibly the Milky Way Galaxy or even the local galaxy group — has been a starch ethanol plant. They’ve been through it all, just […]
In California, Edeniq announced that California ethanol producer, Pacific Ethanol, Stockton LLC (“Pacific Ethanol”), has entered into an agreement to install Edeniq technology at the company’s Stockton, California ethanol plant. Pacific Ethanol will install Edeniq’s proprietary Cellunators™ to boost ethanol yields, and will also deploy Edeniq’s patented OilPlus™ corn oil extraction process to increase corn […]
By Janet McGurty, special to the Digest U.S. biodiesel makers were big winners in the last minute tax bill passed in Washington at year end, regaining the $1 per gallon tax credit which expired December 2011 and extending it to the end of 2013, helping an industry where many small producers closed or cut back sharply on production […]
