All Posts Tagged With: "biofuels"

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A Comeback for Fed-Funded Algae Fuel Research

ExxonMobil has been one of the largest cooperators/investors into algae-based biofuels, setting aside nearly $600 million dollars as of 2009. In their quest for alternative energy, they joined with Synthetic Genomics Inc., to research and develop next-generation biofuels produced from sunlight.

3Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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ZeaChem Celebrates Groundbreaking of Biorefinery
in Boardman, Oregon

The plant will initially use the Lakewood firm’s core technology, which has been validated by a number of third party vendors, to produce ethyl acetate, a salable chemical intermediate and precursor to cellulosic ethanol.

8Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Gevo Gets $10 Million Investment From Lanxess AG

The Englewood-based biofouels and biochemical firm began to produce biobutanol on a demonstration-scale in the second half of 2009, and expects to complete its first retrofit of an existing ethanol plant to biobutanol production by 2011.

29May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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NREL, 3M Launch Technology Partnership

The partnership’s work will range from jointly identifying and developing critical aspects of renewable energy technology to accelerated testing of 3M designs and scaling-up successful prototypes for commercial production.

19May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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