A new report reveals the biofuels industry contributed $277.3 billion to the global economy in 2010 and by 2020 says the global biofuels industry will produce more than 51 billion gallons and support more than 2.2 million jobs.
After nearly two years of collaborative research, biotechnology company BioTork LLC and NCERC have developed a yeast strain capable of fermenting the xylose found in ligno-cellulosic biomass in a commercial-scale environment
The 2012 Omnibus Agriculture Policy bill calls for all gasoline blends sold in Minnesota to contain at least 20 percent ethanol by volume or the maximum percent of ethanol by volume allowed by the U.S. EPA by Aug. 30, 2015.
DuPont Industrial Biosciences has selected Fagen Inc. to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant, a 28 MMgy corn stover-fed facility to be located adjacent to Lincolnway Energy LLC in Nevada, Iowa.
Hammering the RFS point
May 07, 2012
The effort continues to keep some advanced biofuels incentives in place and to protect the renewable fuels standard. Last week, BP Biofuels, Novozymes and DuPont executives held a joint news conference to keep hammering their point.
USGC leads DDGS recertification effort in Japan
By U.S. Grains Council
May 07, 2012
The U.S. Grains Council is planning to work with Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to register new, low-oil/fat distiller's dried grains with solubles for feed use in Japan.
The American Petroleum Institute continues to stress the potential for compatibility issues between retail station infrastructure and E15 and says refiners could face RFS non-compliance fines if issues aren't resolved.
Persistently lagging sugarcane ethanol production in Brazil could make it very expensive for obligated parties to meet biofuels volume requirements in the U.S. as early as this year, according to energy consulting firm Hart Energy.
TMO Renewables advances cassava to ethanol with China partners
By TMO Renewables
May 03, 2012
TMO Renewables, a U.K.-based cellulosic biofuels technology provider, announced the company has advanced to demonstration scale on cassava stalk feedstock with major Chinese fuel and food producers.
Peru oil producer and refiner, Maple Energy, is now also an ethanol producer, beginning production at its 35 MMgy ethanol plant in April. The $275 million sugarcane-ethanol project includes a 7,000 hectare (11,000 acre) drip-irrigated plantation.
Archer Daniels Midland Co.'s third quarter financial results showed net earnings of $399 million, a 31 percent decrease from the same time period last year.
Executives from BP Biofuels, Novozymes, and DuPont Industrial Biosciences held a conference call May 1 to reiterate the importance of the renewable fuel standard (RFS) to the developing cellulosic biofuel industry.
Dyadic expands license agreement with Abengoa
By Dyadic International Inc.
May 01, 2012
Dyadic International Inc. announced that Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay Dyadic $5.5 million for an expansion of its rights under the nonexclusive license agreement the parties entered into in February 2009.
Purchase of Denison, Iowa, ethanol plant finalized
By The Andersons Inc.
May 01, 2012
The Andersons Inc. announced it has completed the purchase of an ethanol facility in Denison, Iowa, now known as The Andersons Denison Ethanol LLC.
An April 30 Shell and Iogen announcement revealed that 150 employees were laid off at Iogen's headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, and a Shell-led proposed project to build a 10 MMgy cellulosic ethanol plant in Manitoba has been suspended.
Cole Gustafson was killed April 28 in a farm accident on his family's farm in Minnesota. He was an NDSU professor who was working with Green Vision Group on a project to build multiple 20 MMgy dedicated energy beet-to-ethanol plants in North Dakota.
Less a month after inking a deal with Fagen Inc. to serve as the EPC firm for butanol production facilities, two more ethanol plants have joined butanol technology developer Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's Early Adopters Group.
Deadlines are looming for the Fuel Ethanol Workshop. The first is for award nominations, due today, and we're also looking for scholarship applications by May 7. Both can be done online by following the links at www.fuelethanolworkshop.com.
Novozymes announced two international projects, a partnership with Chinese Shengquan Group to produce cellulosic ethanol for solvents and biochemicals and its participation in a consortium developing a cellulosic ethanol plant in Maabjerg, Denmark.
Despite interest from "key potential investors," Enerkem Inc. won't proceed with an IPO, but the company, with the support of its current investors and partners, is still planning to move forward with several MSW-to-biofuels commercial projects.
Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. announced a Q1 net loss of $12.7 million -- 39 cents per share. During a conference call April 26, Todd Becker, president and CEO, said although the quarter was very challenging, there were several positives.
The Senate Agriculture Committee marked up the 2012 Farm Bill on April 26 and approved a new version by a vote of 16 to 5 that includes an amendment to restore funding for the Farm Bill energy title programs.
Global RFA applauds IEA report on need for more biofuels
By Global RFA
April 26, 2012
According to the IEA, biofuels for transport are not on track to meet their share of CO2 reduction that is needed to achieve the IEA's goal of an average 2 degrees Celcius rise in global temperature by 2020.
After having received a respite, fuel distributors, ethanol producers and consumers are back under the thumb of California's controversial LCFS, following a recent appeals court decision to allow CARB to enforce the LCFS while it considers the case.
Shengquan, Novozymes partner to commercialize cellulosic ethanol
By Novozymes
April 25, 2012
The Chinese Shengquan Group will start commercial production of cellulosic ethanol for solvents and biochemicals in June 2012 utilizing enabling technology from Novozymes.
The Governors' Biofuels Coalition has joined forces with the Coalition for E85, pressing lawmakers to extend the 50-cent per gallon alternative fuel tax credit and make E85 eligible for the tax credit.
Increasing fuel efficiency standards are expected to shrink U.S. gasoline demand over the coming years while, at the same time, the renewable fuel standard (RFS) will require increasing amounts of alternative fuels to be blended into the supply.
SDSU research shows distillers grains can comprise up to 20 percent of the diets (on a dry basis) for lactating dairy cows without negatively affecting milk production. Most dairy farmers currently use only about 10 percent in rations.
Pennsylvania Grain Processing LLC, affiliate of Zeeland Farm Services Inc., bid $9.35 million in bankruptcy court for the hot-idled Bionol Clearfield LLC, a 110 MMgy $270 million ethanol plant that began operations in early 2010.
Bushmills Ethanol Inc., a 65 Mmgy production facility in Atwater, Minn., recently paid an $800,000 civil penalty for illegal wastewater discharges occurring from August 2008 through December 2009.
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