• Pacific Ethanol raises $11 million in public stock offering

    Updated: 2012-09-28 17:51:43
    For the second time in three months, Pacific Ethanol Inc. raised more than $10 million in a public offering of common stock. Both times, the company raised the amount in less than a week. The latest public stock offering was announced Sept. 20.

  • Dyadic, SEKAB: Enzyme research project concludes in Sweden

    Updated: 2012-09-28 17:48:50
    A research project at a demonstration plant in Sweden has concluded, successfully verifying an enzyme for use in the production of biofuels and bio-based chemicals.The enzyme is AlternaFuel CMAX, a trademarked product of Dyadic International Inc.

  • NREL produces ethylene via photosynthesis

    Updated: 2012-09-28 17:46:59
    Scientists at the U.S. DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have demonstrated a better way to use photosynthesis to produce ethylene, a breakthrough that could change the way materials, chemicals, and transportation fuels are made.

  • First 1,000 Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrids already sold out

    Updated: 2012-09-28 13:54:00
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  • Concentrated Photovoltaics Market Will Reach 1.2 GW By 2016

    Updated: 2012-09-28 12:43:25
    Continued Growth for CPV according to IMS The Concentrated Photovoltaic Power Plants will double in 2012 and is estimated to reach 90MW. The market is expected to reach almost 1.2GW by 2016 Although several start-up firm have failed in the currently over-hyped solar energy sector the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market is able to grow significantly [...] Related posts: Organic Photovoltaics Market Set To Reach $630 Million by 2022 Global Information Inc. has just... Global PV Monitoring: Technologies, Markets and Leading Players, 2012-2016 The highly competitive global PV... Global PV Inverter Market to Return to Growth in 2012 and Exceed $7 Billion According To Research The global photovoltaic (PV) inverter... 20 GW of PV Manufacturing Equipment To Be Replaced By 2016 Despite the outlook for the... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/therenewableenergysources?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"

  • NSF grants support UNH ethanol fuel cell research

    Updated: 2012-09-27 23:50:46
    Xiaowei Teng, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of New Hampshire, has received two National Science Foundation grants totaling nearly $1 million to improve the efficiency of ethanol oxidation fuel cell reactions.

  • EIA releases ethanol stats for first half of 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-27 23:40:16
    The U.S. Energy Information Administration published its most recent monthly statistics on the ethanol industry on Sept. 26. The report is part of the EIA's Monthly Energy Review. The data shows a slight increase in production over last year.

  • New Fuels America coalition launches campaign to defend RFS

    Updated: 2012-09-27 23:31:25
    The advanced biofuels community is taking the threat seriously of a possible waiver or opening the renewable fuel standard for amendment. A new coalition, Fuels America, has been announced along with the launching of a new advertising campaign.

  • Qteros equipment to be auctioned off

    Updated: 2012-09-27 00:05:47
    Production equipment, lab equipment and other office furnishings and equipment owned by Massachusetts-based Qteros Inc. is set to be auctioned off on Sept. 28. The public auction is being handled by auctioneer and appraisal firm Aaron Posnik & Co.

  • Renmatix opens new research and development facility

    Updated: 2012-09-27 00:02:43
    Cellulosic sugar manufacturer Renmatix Inc. has opened a new research and development center at its headquarters in King of Prussia, Pa. The facility will enable the company to expand its scope and investigate the use of additional feedstocks.

  • Valero restarts 2 idled plants as harvest improves corn supply

    Updated: 2012-09-27 00:00:31
    Not long after conducting an executive swing through five of the 10 communities where it owns ethanol plants, Valero Corp. announced that the two plants that had been temporarily idled had been restarted at Albion, Neb., and Linden, Ind.

  • Fuel Freedom Foundation announces video competition winners

    Updated: 2012-09-26 23:54:46
    The Fuel Freedom Foundation has announced the winners of its first college video competition. The winning films are short segments produced by Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts students. Ethanol is mentioned in all three videos.

  • Overheating batteries put Chrysler plug-in hybrid testing on hold

    Updated: 2012-09-26 21:57:00
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  • Biofuel Energy idles Minn. plant

    Updated: 2012-09-26 00:11:40
    BioFuel Energy Corp., an ethanol production company, announced today that it has decided to idle its Fairmont, Minn., ethanol facility until further notice. The plant ceased ethanol production as of the end of last week.

  • Switching to ethanol production a luxury for Gevo's Luverne plant

    Updated: 2012-09-26 00:09:19
    Gevo Inc. is taking advantage of a design feature to temporarily switch back to ethanol production after 17 weeks of isobutanol production while it corrects some technological issues identified during typical startup growing pains.

  • Ethanol cook stove project gains $9 million in funding

    Updated: 2012-09-26 00:03:04
    The Soros Economic Development Fund and the Industrialization Fund for Developing Countries recently announced investments of nearly $9 million in CleanStar Mozambique, with the option to invest more in potential pan-African expansion.

  • Algae Biomass Summit: Producers say commercialization is close

    Updated: 2012-09-25 17:28:18
    Small American companies are directing the global algae industry's commercialization approach. With Big Oil, Big Food and big money behind them, U.S. algae startups continue to scale up, build out, and tap into the infrastructure of industrial hosts.

  • Congress fails to pass farm bill before adjourning, clock ticking

    Updated: 2012-09-25 16:23:33
    With Congress adjourned, fears that a 2012 farm bill wouldn't pass before the Sept. 30 deadline have now become a reality. Although there's no guarantee, lawmakers could still get it done after Election Day, commonly called the lame duck session.

  • Toyota will make more than 1 million hybrids this year

    Updated: 2012-09-25 16:02:00
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  • Presidential candidates respond to AFBF questionnaire

    Updated: 2012-09-24 23:16:44
    During each presidential campaign, the American Farm Bureau Federation asks the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees to address issues that concern the farming and ranching communities. Responses to this year's questions are now available.

  • Student scholarships available for National Ethanol Conference

    Updated: 2012-09-24 23:14:06
    The Renewable Fuels Association and Renewable Fuels Foundation will be offering six scholarships for students to attend the 18th Annual National Ethanol Conference: Driving Forward in Las Vegas, Nev., Feb. 5-7, 2013. Applications are due Nov. 23.

  • Back to School, Alcohol School

    Updated: 2012-09-24 17:53:52
    I was back in school for a few days last week – the Alcohol School, held in Montreal and cosponsored by the Ethanol Technology Institute and Lallemand Ethanol Technology.

  • Coproducts help keep ethanol producers profitable in lean times

    Updated: 2012-09-21 17:37:28
    Coproducts are becoming an increasingly important factor in ethanol plant profitability, according to the third annual benchmarking report released Sept. 18 by Christianson & Associates PLLP. The report addresses 2011 and the first half of 2012.

  • Global 2012 corn crop to be second largest in history

    Updated: 2012-09-21 17:28:56
    Today the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance criticized the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development senior counselor Carmel Cahill for making unsubstantiated comments targeting the role of biofuels mandates in food price inflation.

  • E15 now offered at five Kan. stations

    Updated: 2012-09-20 22:54:31
    As predicted, the Sept. 15 expiration of EPA's summer volatility restriction has resulted in an increase in E15 offerings. This week five stations in Kansas begin offer E15, bringing the total in the state to seven.

  • Oshawa Port Authority plans public meeting on proposed plant

    Updated: 2012-09-20 16:54:28
    The Oshawa Port Authority in Ontario is planning an event to help answer questions its local community has with regard to a proposed ethanol plant. To help address public concerns, the OPA plans to hold a public information meeting on Sept. 25.

  • EU to alter RED to require advanced, cellulosic biofuels

    Updated: 2012-09-20 08:49:58
    A leaked proposal by the European Commission reportedly indicates that European governments are considering altering the Renewable Energy Directive to place more emphasis on advanced biofuel feedstocks, while capping crop-based biofuel consumption.

  • Biofuel industry responds to EPRINC report

    Updated: 2012-09-20 08:46:32
    Representatives of the biofuel industry are speaking out against a report, titled "Ethanol's Lost Promise," recently issued by the Energy Policy Research Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization that focuses on the petroleum industry.

  • USDA expands drought assistance to 22 states

    Updated: 2012-09-20 00:07:44
    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $11.8 million in additional financial and technical assistance to help crop and livestock producers in 22 states apply conservation practices that reduce the impacts of drought.

  • Purdue gets $5.2 million to develop new biofuel process

    Updated: 2012-09-20 00:06:00
    If Purdue University researchers have their way, the term "biofuel plant" will take on a whole new meaning. A team received a $5.2 million U.S. DOE grant to develop a plant that can make substances that could be used directly as a biofuel.

  • National Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo announces agenda

    Updated: 2012-09-19 17:00:27
    The 2012 National Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo taking place Nov. 27-29 in Houston, Texas, announced its preliminary agenda this week, which includes three comprehensive program tracks focused on advanced biofuels and biochemicals.

  • Corn prices drop below $8 mark, DDGS prices down too

    Updated: 2012-09-19 16:23:57
    December futures prices for corn have declined to $7.40 a bushel from a high of $8.38 on Aug. 21. Distillers grains cash prices, which track corn prices, are down too, from an average of $299 per ton during the week of Aug. 10, to $286 on Sept. 14.

  • Winners of Annual Brazilian Bioenergy Awards announced

    Updated: 2012-09-19 16:17:40
    Winners of this year's Annual Brazilian Bioenergy Awards include collaborations of companies developing algae biofuels and cellulosic ethanol. The awards were announced at the 2012 World Biofuels Markets Brazil conference and exhhibition on Sept. 18.

  • Energy sorghum demonstrates potential during dry summer

    Updated: 2012-09-18 17:05:59
    Despite weather challenges and the learning curve for farmers unfamiliar with this energy sorghum, one of the first commercial-scale plantings of the crop in the U.S. has been a success. A recent field day in New York focused on the crop.

  • Lallemand's annual Ethanol School kicks off in Montreal

    Updated: 2012-09-18 16:49:02
    For 32 years, the Alcohol School has provided an educational and networking opportunity for fuel and beverage alcohol industry employees and suppliers. This fall's course began Monday in Montreal with 90 participants.

  • Maple Energy announces financial results for first half of 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-18 16:46:08
    Peru-based Maple Energy plc recently released its preliminary financial results for the six-month period ended June 30. The company recently began operations at its 35 MMgy sugarcane ethanol plant, and exported its first shipment of of ethanol.

  • Joule partners with Audi, commissions demonstration plant

    Updated: 2012-09-17 22:05:49
    Joule Unlimited has announced it has partnered with auto manufacturer Audi AG to accelerate the commercialization of its biofuels for introduction into the respective ethanol and diesel markets. The company also commissioned its demonstration plant.

  • WUSTL students study biofuels in Brazil

    Updated: 2012-09-17 22:01:42
    The International Experience Program at Washington University in St. Louis takes students to another country during the summer to study energy and environmental technology and policy. This year's trip to Brazil focused on biofuels.

  • Pushing the corn numbers

    Updated: 2012-09-17 18:35:39
    The International Experience Program at Washington University in St. Louis takes students to another country during the summer to study energy and environmental technology and policy. This year's trip to Brazil focused on biofuels.

  • Deinove announces progress with single-step cellulosic processing

    Updated: 2012-09-14 19:47:14
    Paris-based Deinove recently announced that its research and development team, in cooperation with partners in its Deinol program, successfully isolated and optimized a strain of Deinococcus bacteria to produce ethanol from wheat-based feedstock.

  • Algeria eliminates taxes, duties on U.S. corn and co-products

    Updated: 2012-09-14 19:42:40
    After a three and a half year effort, the U.S. Grains Council, in cooperation with USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service in Algeria, has successfully influenced the removal of the value added tax (VAT) and custom tax on all feed imports in Algeria.

  • Sorghum in spotlight due to drought, pending EPA action

    Updated: 2012-09-14 19:38:57
    For years, National Sorghum Producers have advocated for increasing the use of grain sorghum, or milo, as an ethanol feedstock. Lately, the idea seems to be gaining steam, due to drought conditions and other factors.

  • Fall fuel change brings new opportunities for E15

    Updated: 2012-09-13 23:16:44
    Sept. 15 marks the expiration date for the U.S. EPA's summer volatility restriction for gasolines. The EPA's E15 approval included a summer vapor pressure restriction to 9 psi, creating the need for a specialty blendstock unavailable in many areas.

  • Deadline for NCGA student video competition nears

    Updated: 2012-09-13 23:13:28
    The deadline for the National Corn Growers Association "Ethanol Rocks" video contest is fast approaching. The competition is open to all active high school and college students and invites applicants to produce a video promoting the use of ethanol.

  • Fire researchers develop new handbook on silo fires

    Updated: 2012-09-13 23:07:23
    The Swedish SP Fire Technology is publishing a new handbook, "Fires in silos," presenting a method of tackling silo fires. The handbook has been published in Swedish, with an English version to be available shortly.

  • Neb. Governor proclaims September is Renewable Fuels Month

    Updated: 2012-09-13 19:42:11
    Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman declared September as Renewable Fuels Awareness month in Nebraska during a visit to Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island. The proclamation was coordinated through the Nebraska Corn Board and Nebraska Soybean Board.

  • Growth Energy members talk up benefits of ethanol, need for RFS

    Updated: 2012-09-13 00:05:16
    A group of Growth Energy members spoke out in defense of the renewable fuel standard and U.S. ethanol during a Sept. 12 conference call held the final day of Growth Energy's three-day conference. Speakers included management of three ethanol plants.

  • Ag Energy Coalition calls for passage of Farm Bill

    Updated: 2012-09-13 00:00:21
    The Agriculture Energy Coalition (AgEC) today called on Congress to pass a five-year Farm Bill with mandatory funding for a strong Energy Title, while a rally held by Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., called for a timely passage of a long-term Farm Bill.

  • Agrivida completes Series C financing round

    Updated: 2012-09-12 23:55:50
    Agrivida Inc. recently announced it raised $15 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Bright Capital Partners. The funding will be used to advance the development and commercialization of its proprietary technologies.

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