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07/04/2008 01:00 AM
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Ethanol Is Now
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The line of exotic and sophisticated sports cars in the American Le Mans Series all have ethanol coursing through their veins, as do the 240 mph missiles that thrill the country at Indianapolis every year.
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07/03/2008 01:00 AM
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DOE Announces US $10 Billion in Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solicitation for up to $10 billion in federal loan guarantees for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. This marks the second round of solicitations for DOE's Loan Guarantee Program, which encourages the commercial use of new or significantly improved energy technologies.
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07/03/2008 01:00 AM
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Abandoned Farmlands Are Key to Sustainable Bioenergy
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Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. Using these lands for energy crops, instead of converting existing croplands or clearing new land, avoids competition with food production and preserves carbon-storing forests needed to mitigate climate change. Sustainable bioenergy is likely to satisfy no more than 10% of the demand in the energy-intensive economies of North America, Europe and Asia. But for some developing countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa, the potential exists to supply many times their current energy needs without compromising food supply or destroying forests.
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07/03/2008 01:00 AM
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Fourth of July Campaign Introduces Alternative to High Gas Prices
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With millions of Americans expected to gas-up and head out for the July 4th weekend, producers of sugarcane ethanol want drivers to know that there is an alternative to continued increases in fuel prices. The "Are We There Yet?" campaign will introduce Americans to a lower-cost, higher efficiency fuel, ethanol derived from sugarcane and call on Congress to lift the tariff that artificially inflates the price of cane ethanol.
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07/02/2008 01:00 AM
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REG Completes Acquisition of Biodiesel Plant
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Renewable Energy Group (REG) has received regulatory approval to complete the previously announced acquisition of a biodiesel production facility in Houston, Texas and a liquid storage terminal in California. Construction of the biodiesel facility is complete and REG has slated biodiesel production to begin on July 7.
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07/01/2008 01:00 AM
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Breaking Free from Oil
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The U.S. now imports more than 60% of its oil. With oil topping $140 a barrel this week, we are now endangering our economy, national security and health with our addiction to oil.
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07/01/2008 01:00 AM
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Switching to Switch Grass
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07/01/2008 01:00 AM
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Ecolab & Maker's Mark Install Waste-to-Energy System
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Ecolab Inc.'s Ecovation division has announced the installation and start-up of its proprietary whole stillage treatment system at the Maker's Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky. Ecovation collaborated with Maker's Mark to design, build and operate the waste stream treatment system that will enable the Maker's Mark Distillery to significantly recycle its waste stream and generate renewable energy.
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06/30/2008 01:00 AM
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Biofuels Law: EPA Guidance on Potentially Illegal RIN Trading Practices
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently publicized practices that it claims are illegal under its complex system for documenting compliance with the Renewable Fuel Standard. The system requires obligated parties to establish that they have purchased sufficient Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), which are generated by the sale of renewable fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol. The EPA notice suggests that some RIN market participants' efforts to correct clerical errors in their RIN transactions may be creating additional civil exposure. Properly documenting RIN transactions has been a source of substantial concern to producers, marketers and purchasers of renewable fuels. The EPA's recent notice probably exacerbates those concerns for past transactions but does provide some useful guidance for future transactions.
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06/30/2008 01:00 AM
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Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Renewable Energy Bill
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06/30/2008 01:00 AM
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Mascoma Closer To Building Cellulosic Facility in Michigan
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Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Mascoma Corporation CEO Bruce Jamerson announced that Mascoma has entered into a series of key strategic relationships to further its efforts to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Mascoma's single-step cellulose-to-ethanol method, called consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, uses advanced technologies to make ethanol from non-food based renewable sources such as wood chips and other biomass.
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06/30/2008 01:00 AM
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UK Launches New Blueprint for Renewables
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The UK government has set out a national renewable energy blueprint designed to slash carbon emissions and reduce dependency on oil and gas. UK Business Secretary John Hutton outlined the proposals that are likely to include up to a third of electricity coming from renewable sources as well as significant increases in the use of renewable forms of heat and transport fuels last week. The blueprint is designed to help meet the UK's anticipated 15% renewable energy target by 2020, an increase of 1000% on current levels.
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06/27/2008 01:00 AM
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RWE Innogy Starts Construction on Biomass CHP Plant
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Germany's RWE Innogy has laid the foundation stone for a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant at the Wittgenstein inter-municipal industry park, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein. The developer of the plant is RWE Innogy Cogen GmbH, a subsidiary of RWE Innogy. The plant's rated output will be approximately 30 MW of thermal energy and 8 MW of electricity. Production should commence in autumn 2009.
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06/27/2008 01:00 AM
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US Rep. Inslee Introduces Renewable Energy Pricing Legislation
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U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) on Wednesday tackled head-on the question of whether Congress can mandate electricity prices with the introduction of legislation that would set "feed-in" tariffs to motivate the development and purchase of more renewable sources of electric power.
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06/25/2008 01:00 AM
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Report: FPL Green Energy Program Misleading
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06/25/2008 01:00 AM
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Ontarians Expect 50% Renewables by 2018
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More than 600 people descended on the City of Kingston in Ontario, Canada as the World Wind Energy Conference 2008 kicked off this week. In support of the Conference, the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association released new polling results showing a majority of Ontarians anticipate getting their power from renewable sources by 2018.
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06/25/2008 01:00 AM
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Biomaterials Increasingly Driving Investment Interest
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Biotechnology offers some of the best opportunities to create a more sustainable world, with applications as diverse as new sources of energy, new materials for industrial and consumer uses and high quality agricultural products with better production economics. Despite all this, for new products and technologies to be truly sustainable according to an international panel of industry, governmental and venture capital representatives at the 2008 BIO International Convention in San Diego they must be both good for society and the environment, as well as have real economic value.
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06/24/2008 01:00 AM
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Production Begins at Petrotec Biodiesel Plant
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Petrotec AG has put its new biodiesel plant in Emden, Germany into full production. The plant in Emden's seaport has an annual capacity of 100,000 tons (approximately 113 million liters). In addition to production facilities, the plant also contains a refinery, storage tanks, a laboratory and its own loading and unloading unit for inland and ocean-going vessels on the harbor pier.
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06/24/2008 01:00 AM
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Fuel Production Starts at Biomethane Plant
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Gasrec, BOC, a subsidiary of The Linde Group, and waste management company SITA UK, have announced that production of liquid biomethane (LBM) fuel is underway at Gasrec's plant on SITA UK's Albury landfill site in Surrey, UK.
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06/24/2008 01:00 AM
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Push Towards Green Energy May Carry High Costs for Consumers, Experts Warn
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