All Posts Tagged With: "biofuels"
Conference Highlights –
The 2009 Biofuels Commercialization Workshop Series
If you’re involved with the biofuels market and did not attend last fall’s highly praised meeting sponsored by RASEI and Colorado Energy News, you can still access the conference highlights here.
20Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Biofuels Beat —
Rentech and ZeaChem Get Fed Funding
Two bio-refining companies with Colorado connections will receive new funding from the federal stimulus program, according to an announcement by the DOE. Lakewood-based ZeaChem Inc. is receiving $25 million for an Oregon biofuels project, and Rentech is part of a $23 million biorefinery project here.
7Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
ZeaChem Begins Construction of
Cellulosic Biorefinery
“We’re meeting our deployment milestones and moving forward to advanced biofuels and bio-based chemicals production,” Imbler tells Colorado Energy News. “We have a dedicated energy feedstock supplier, we have raised necessary capital, and we have completed the initial design package.”
18Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DOE’s New Private Sector Partnership to Accelerate Renewable Energy Projects
The Financial Institution Partnership Program will expedite the Federal agency’s loan guarantee underwriting process and leverage private sector expertise and capital for the efficient and prudent funding of eligible projects, according to the DOE.
8Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Biofuels Beat — Rocky Mountain Sustainable Enterprises Inks Deal with Gray Oil
The three-year agreement, in which RMSE will supply up to 4.5 million gallons annually of biodiesel to Gray Oil, has an estimated revenue value of $45 million, says the Boulder-based company’s CEO Aaron Perry, pictured in the center.
12Aug2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Solix Biofuels Flips Switch on Production Facility
at Coyote Gulch
The spin-off from CSU uses algae to produce liquid fuel for use in airplanes and diesel trucks. Its Coyote Gulch Demonstration Facility near Durango is expected to be producing the equivalent of 3,000 gallons per acre, per year of algal oil by late 2009.
28Jul2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Regional Differences Hinder Climate Bill Consensus –
Ritter Touts Clean Energy as “Jobs Creator” to Senate Committee
The Governor said “that efforts to curb global warming and spur the development of cleaner sources of energy have created jobs and new businesses in their states, a trend that could expand nationwide if Congress passes federal legislation.” But some politicians from “middle America” said it would hurt their states.
22Jul2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Biomass Being Added to the Power Blend
at Colorado Springs Plant
Springs Utilities will contract with a biomass management company to deliver woody product to its Martin Drake Power Plant, with the resulting 85 percent coal and 15 percent biomass process enough to produce roughly 150,000 megawatts per year.
6Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Assessing Colorado’s Biofuels Market –
Will It Break-Out or Breakdown?
The Denver meeting brought together roughly 70 biofuels/biomass stakeholders from industry, the environmental sector, R&D, government and public policy to discuss the role of advanced biofuels in our state and what needs to be done to move the market forward.
15Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Biofuels Battered
The future of biofuels in this country has never looked bleaker. Last week Denver-based BioFuel, Inc., reported a net quarterly loss of $11.2 million and said it must restructure its debt or reach “other accommodations” with lenders “to continue operating as planned.” In other words: we are in deep s**t. Yet, there is still a future for biofuels in U.S. energy policy.
18May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008
Despite growing economic uncertainty over the last year, three major clean-energy sectors — solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, and biofuels — kept up a blistering growth rate, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2009 report. By 2018, these sectors are forecast to have revenues of $325.1 billion.
11Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Special Report: U.S. BioPower — The Road Ahead
The slowing of the development of the Biopower industry in the U.S. can be traced to high feedstock costs due to inadequate infrastructure and lack of accounting for the positive environmental attributes of biomass in the market.
29Jan2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Range Fuels Receives $80M Loan Commitment
The loan guarantee - part of the 2008 Farm Bill - is designed to help fund the Broomfield company’s construction of its commercial cellulosic ethanol plant near Soperton, Georgia.
20Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
International Perspective: As Europe Fiddles, U.S. May Take Lead on Climate Change
“This is not mad scientists any more. In the next decades, clean energy is going to be ten times bigger than the internet and IT combined,” says Ausra’s David Mills.
20Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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