The Andersons Inc. has released third quarter financial results, reporting record quarterly and year-to-date operating income for the its ethanol segment, which realized operating income of $10.9 million for the quarter on revenues of $213 million.
A flurry of press releases, fact sheets and a teleconference are aiming to correct a one-sided Associated Press story that paints a negative picture of corn ethanol. The AP story was published Nov. 12, but advanced copies were leaked last week.
More than $14 million in funding for 424 projects in 22 states, including several biomass- and biofuels-related projects, was recently awarded under the Rural Energy for America Program by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Douglas Tiffany, assistant extension professor at the University of Minnesota, discussed the economics of co-locating torrefaction, ethanol and coal power plants at the University of North Dakota on Nov. 6.
The record corn supply has multiple implications for the ethanol industry. The USDA's Nov. 8 supply/demand report pegged the 2013 corn crop at 13.989 billion bushels, a new record at more than 700 million bushels higher than the previous record.
Adkins Energy LLC, a 48 MMgy ethanol plant located in Lena, Ill., is poised to begin construction on a 2 MMgy co-located biodiesel plant, which will utilize the distillers corn oil separated at the ethanol plant as a biodiesel feedstock.
An ethanol plant commodity manager talks about his career path and current job at an Iowa production facility.
CARD analyses discuss E85 and the RFS
November 08, 2013
Two new papers published by Iowa State University economists Bruce Babcock and Sebastien Pouliot discuss E85 investment and consumption. Both papers were published under the ISU's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development.
Beijing Shougang LanzaTech New Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd. has earned Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials sustainability certification for the joint venture's facility that converts waste steel mill gases to sustainable biofuels.
The Renewable Fuels Association and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway will co-host a free Ethanol Safety Seminar on Nov. 14 at the Pipestone Fire Hall in Pipestone, Minn. Afternoon and evening sessions are scheduled.
Bushels being binned in the corn harvest now well underway are forecast to hit a record 13.989 billion bushels, up 146 million bushels higher than the last report. Total corn supplies are also projected to hit a record.
Gevo Inc. has released its third quarter financial results, reporting progress with isobutanol production at its Luverne, Minn., plant and with its paraxylene demonstration facility and biobased jet fuel process.
Three Rivers Energy LLC, a newly restarted ethanol plant in ethanol plant in Coshocton, Ohio, is the latest to sign a commercial agreement to use Syngenta's Enogen corn. The plant was started up by Lakeview Energy LLC.
Researchers have developed a new butanol process that promises to convert 94 percent of the available carbon in biomass, including carbon dioxide, for a greenhouse gas reduction of more than 100 percent at a cost of less than $2 per gallon.
A new paper from two Iowa State University economists concludes that an American Petroleum Institute study predicting higher fuel prices as the result of increased renewable fuel standard (RFS) ethanol mandates is flawed.
The USDA has awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as bioenergy feedstock.
Cargill has begun operating its corn wet mill ethanol plant in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Cargill purchased the idled facility from Tate & Lyle in 2011. When completed, the Fort Dodge bio-refinery campus will also produce other biobased products.
The Minnesota Corn Growers Association recently announced the creation of a new, interactive map that pulls together data that was previously tracked but not pulled together in one easy to digest format.
A teleconference hosted by Fuels America on Nov. 6 explored the likely impacts of the U.S. EPA's leaked draft proposal for the 2014 renewable fuel standard volume obligations. Speakers said the proposal would chill investment in advanced biofuels.
On Nov. 5, Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two 110 MMgy ethanol plants of BioFuel Energy Corp. from an entity composed of its lender group.
RFA, Growth Energy, BIO ask to intervene in RFS legal challenge
By Renewable Fuels Association, Biotechnology Industry Organization, and Growth Energy
November 05, 2013
The Renewable Fuels Association, Biotechnology Industry Organization, and Growth Energy filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals to intervene in support of the RFS 2013 final rule.
In the last week, three letters have been sent to the ag committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, urging support for the Farm Bill's energy title programs. The letters have been issued by both federal lawmakers and trade groups.
A two-week trip to help out at an African cooking fuel ethanol plant yielded some interesting experiences.
In August, Ernest Moniz, secretary for the U.S. DOE, announced more than $22 million in new investments to develop a more efficient feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels, in addition to more affordable algae-derived fuels.
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