All Posts Tagged With: "biofuels"

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Curtain Closing on Range Fuels? Feds Want Its Ethanol Plant in Georgia Liquidated

Bloomberg reports the Soperton, Ga., factory is to be liquidated after the Broomfield-based company defaulted on a federal loan and failed to produce cellulosic ethanol, a fuel made from wood chips that the plant was intended to produce.

5Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BIOFUELS BEAT

A round-up of the latest biofuels news from
Colorado Energy News editors …
>> Obama’s Latest Biofuels Initiative
>> Colorado Company’s Patent Battle
>> ZeaChem, Chyrsler Form Strategic Alliance
>> Creating “Designer” Grasses

18Aug2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Merrick Acquires Charlotte Firm

The Aurora-based engineering, architecture, design-build firm, is celebrating 15 years in the biofuels and renewable energy markets, which launched with an ethanol plant at the MillerCoors Brewery in Golden.

3Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Range Fuels Hits Financial, Technical Roadblocks

The Denver-area biofuels startup, which had hoped to produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic fuel from wood chips each year, has closed its new biorefinery plant in Georgia because of technical problems, and laid off an undisclosed number of employees. It has also lost, at least for now, key financial support from the DOE.

30Jan2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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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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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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