A March 13 vote defeated an amendment that would have extended key biofuels tax credits–prompting disappointed reactions from the Renewable Fuels Association, Advanced Ethanol Council and Growth Energy.
Compared to corn, dried distillers grains with solubles has a low and variable digestibility of amino acids, nutrients which swine and poultry need. Researchers recently studied the role of syrup balls in that issue.
EC publishes regulation classifying ethanol imports to EU
By ePURE
March 13, 2012
From April 3 onwards all imported ethanol/petrol blends that contain 70 percent ethanol blended with 30 percent petrol must be classified by EU customs authorities as denatured ethanol.
The American Petroleum Institute filed a lawsuit March 9 in the D.C. Circuit Court against the EPA to challenge the “unachievable requirements� of the cellulosic biofuels mandate.
Poet-DSM begins building Project Liberty
March 13, 2012
Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels LLC held a formal groundbreaking ceremony on March 13 at the site of the 20 MMgy cellulosic ethanol facility known as Project Liberty, marking the beginning of full-scale construction of the plant.
You know you live in a small town when the fact somebody went viral makes front page news.
The opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers to continue exporting significant quantities of corn ethanol to Brazil in 2012 will rely significantly on the outcome of Brazil's latest sugarcane harvest, according to a recent Rabobank report.
No changes to the U.S. corn balance sheet from the previous month were made to the USDA's monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report released Friday morning.
Industry supports extension of cellulosic, advanced tax credits
By AEC, Growth Energy, RFA
March 08, 2012
The Renewable Fuels Association, Advanced Ethanol Council and Growth Energy March 8 expressed support for an amendment to the Senate transportation bill offered by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
President Obama unveiled new initiatives aimed at increasing the affordability of alternative fuel vehicles and the number of alternative fueling stations during remarks delivered March 7 at the Daimler Trucks manufacturing plant in Mt. Holly, N.C.
Testing proves scalability of Cobalt's pretreatment process
By Cobalt Technologies
March 08, 2012
Next-generation n-butanol developer Cobalt Technologies announced the achievement of major progress toward commercial scale by successfully demonstrating its biomass pretreatment process.
A corn ethanol plant that has been idle since October 2007 and was sold at auction in the fall of 2010 is now being reinvented as a 10 MMgy sugar beet-to-ethanol production facility.
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for engineered ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI) enzymes that will be used to optimize the company's biobutanol production process.
Al-Corn Clean Fuel, a 50 MMgy plant in Claremont, Minn., is working with a St. Paul company investigating secondary production of green diesel at a new or existing ethanol plant.
DDGS learning opportunity
March 06, 2012
I'll be attending a half day meeting in Des Moines to learn more about corn oil extraction and the corresponding changes to DDGS. Will I see you there?
Accelerating Innovation
March 05, 2012
Ethanol industry lauded, challenged in Orlando
Ethanol industry responds to LCFS legal filing
By Growth Energy/RFA
March 05, 2012
A coalition of national ethanol groups, along with California and Midwest farming groups, filed a brief urging the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a court-ordered injunction on the California Air Resource Board's low-carbon fuel standard.
Hitting the blend wall
March 05, 2012
Gasoline consumption in the U.S. is down. The double edge sword is that while the ethanol industry trumpets the need to replace foreign oil imports by using renewable fuels, if overall gasoline consumption goes down, so does ethanol blending.
Feeding the Chemical Market
March 05, 2012
Ethanol serves as not only a liquid transportation fuel but also as a feedstock for biobased chemical production
LCFS in Limbo
March 05, 2012
California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard has been brought to a halt, at least temporarily. How will it affect ethanol producers?
Dollars and Sense
March 05, 2012
Analyses vary, but ethanol's economic benefits are clear
Hot Discovery
March 05, 2012
A microorganism found in hot springs displays cellulosic ethanol potential
Small-scale Step Forward
March 05, 2012
Allard inks distributorship deal with Synenergy
Join the Club
March 05, 2012
Butamax signs up first early adopter to produce butanol
Business Briefs
By Ethanol Producer Magazine Staff
March 05, 2012
People, Partnerships & Deals
FDA Has No Jurisdiction Here—Or Does It?
By Sarah Brew and Steve Toeniskoetter
March 05, 2012
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