The USDA announced payments to 125 advanced biofuel producers, including 10 ethanol plants. The awards were made under the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels, which provides payments to eligible producers using non-corn starch feedstocks.
A coalition of meat and poultry producer organizations filed a 16-page petition with the U.S. EPA for a waiver or partial waiver of the renewable fuel standard (RFS). The ethanol industry is confident the waiver will be denied.
With ethanol prices rising to follow the drought-driven rise in corn prices, there is still room for ethanol producers to bid those prices higher, according to a recent analysis by ag economists at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. posted a $7.6 million loss during the second quarter of 2012. Information presented during a call to discuss the quarterly financial results reveals that GPRE expects to be profitable by the end of the year.
Galva, Iowa-based Quad County Corn Cooperative is closer to installing a patent-pending system that will turn corn fiber into cellulosic ethanol. On July 25, the USDA and U.S. DOE announced it would invest $4.25 million in the project.
By fall, Vienna, Austria-based See Algae Technology GmbH expects to begin construction on a one hectare dual-use algae production plant co-located with a sugarcane ethanol plant in Recife, Brazil. The plant could be operational in 2013.
The Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant is now operating its demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Straubing, Germany. The plant, which features fully-integrated, enzymatic hydrolysis, has an annual capacity of up to 1,000 tons.
Growth Energy, pump equipment manufactures to increase E15 access
By Growth Energy
July 26, 2012
following the U.S. EPA approval of E15 for commercial sale, several fuel dispensing equipment manufacturers have introduced new products for retailers to modify existing fuel dispensers to accommodate higher ethanol blends.
Plymouth Energy operates Edeniq equipment, boosts yields
By Edeniq Inc.
July 26, 2012
Edeniq Inc., a biomaterials and sustainable fuels innovator, has announced that its proprietary Cellunator milling equipment has been running commercially at Plymouth Energy LLC's corn ethanol facility since the first quarter of the year.
USDA designates additional counties as natural disaster areas
By USDA
July 25, 2012
The USDA has designated 76 additional counties as primary natural disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by drought and excessive heat. A total of 1,234 counties have been designated as disaster areas due to drought in the 2012 crop year.
The American Petroleum Institute filed yet another lawsuit challenging the 2011 cellulosic requirement of the Renewable Fuel Standard. According to the API, the lawsuit was filed with the D.C. Circuit Court on July 24.
BP is providing advanced fuels to help fuel the Olympic fleet of vehicles, including cellulosic ethanol, biomass-based diesel and biobutanol. BP also offers attendees the opportunity to offset carbon emission through biomass power and biogas projects
Coskata Inc. is shelving its plans to convert biomass into ethanol and complete an initial public offering (IPO) at this time. The company has shifted its focus to natural gas feedstock, and may proceed with IPO plans in the future.
Free ethanol safety seminars to be held in Iowa
By Renewable Fuels Association
July 24, 2012
The Renewable Fuels Association, CN Railway and the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association will co-host two Ethanol Safety Seminars. One will be held in Sioux City, Iowa on July 30, and the second will be held in Fort Dodge, Iowa on August 1.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC request for reexamination of Gevo Inc.'s Gift Technology, U.S. patent 8,101,808. The litigation between the two companies is expected to last for years.
Drought hardiness
July 23, 2012
The drought is worrying, and bringing with a classic weather market response resulting in record corn prices. USDA dropped its yield forecast by 20 bushels per acre in the last monthly supply/demand report.
iDiverse discovers yeast gene that increases fuel ethanol product
By iDiverse
July 23, 2012
iDiverse has discovered a yeast gene that when inserted into yeast and properly modulated can increase ethanol production yield by up to 34 percent. It functions by protecting the yeast against lethal stresses encountered during fermentation.
The U.S. ethanol industry is on track to be a net exporter of ethanol in 2012, although at lower levels that last year's record. The EIA highlighted ethanol in its July 18 report, "This Week in Petroleum."
Ethanol industry commends court for RFS ruling
By Growth Energy/RFA
July 20, 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a petition by the Chicken Council challenging the U.S. EPA rulemaking on the renewable fuel standard.
California-based Ceres Inc. recently announced financial results for the third quarter 2012, which ended on May 31. As part of the release, the company also provided an update on its operations, including its business in Brazil.
A national low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) could provide a new framework to incentivize alternative transportation fuels and lower the nation's carbon intensity, according to the National LCFS Project which released its findings July 18.
A week after it became the first retail gas station to offer E15 under the waiver granted by the U.S. EPA, a celebration was held at Zarco 66 "Oasis" station in Lawrence, Kan. From 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. consumers could fill up with E15 at a discount.
USDA makes more counties eligible for disaster assistance
By USDA
July 18, 2012
The USDA has designated 39 additional counties in eight states as primary natural disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by drought and excessive heat. During the 2012 crop year, the USDA has designated parts of 29 states as disaster areas.
Continued drought is impacting the futures prices for corn and ethanol, resulting in significant movement in the last three weeks. Emotions are high, said Rick Kment, Telvent DTN biofuels analyst, as the possibility of tight corn supply looms large.
As drought conditions continue to creep across much of the lower 48 states, the ethanol industry is preparing for the possibility of tight corn supplies for the second year in a row. A majority of the corn crop is now in fair or worse condition.
Protabit receives NSF award for biofuels research
By Protabit
July 17, 2012
The National Science Foundation awarded a Small Business Innovative Research Phase I grant to Protabit LLC, a Pasadena, Calif.-based spin-out from the California Institute of Technology. The grant will be used to engineer cellulase enzymes.
Danforth Center wins DOE funding to study drought, biomass crops
By Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
July 17, 2012
The U.S. DOE awarded a five-year, $12.1 million grant to researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and their collaborators to develop a new model plant system, Setaria viridis, to advance bioenergy grasses as a biofuel feedstock.
Top mileage on ethanol
July 16, 2012
Here's a winner for you. How about 6,800 mpg on ethanol? No fooling. Don't ask me how they measured it, or what the design was, but a team of students from Thailand achieved the highest mileage of all entries at Shell Eco-marathon Asia on July 7.
Rather than focusing on a single microbe capable of converting cellulose to ethanol in a fermenter, researchers at Michigan State University are culturing two bacteria that grow synergistically.
South Dakota to award grants for flex fuel pumps
By Growth Energy
July 16, 2012
Growth Energy applauds South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Office of Economic Development for authorizing the Ethanol Infrastructure Incentive Program, providing $960,000 in funding during Fiscal Year 2013.
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