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World Rally Championship to race on gas-ethanol-methanol blend
Tweet In the UK, the World Rally Championship is switching its rally cars to run on biofuel beginning with the Acropolis Rally of Greece on May 31. The company who supplies the Ford Fiesta cars for the races, M-Sport, did trial runs on GEM fuel last year. GEM fuel is a blend of gasoline, ethanol [...]
Save $270M! (and Make Biofuels Feedstocks, er, Feasible, er, Now)
Tweet Is there bio-based relief for the harried taxpayer in sight? Could conservationists, growers and biofuels producers find common ground in adapting the Conservation Reserve Program for bioenergy? Could the US save $270M/year, and strengthen two carbon-reducing laws on the books? The eminent Iowa State economist Bruce Babcock recently opined: “The future of cellulosic biofuels [...]
Abengoa begins operations at Salamanca plant
Tweet In Spain, Abengoa has begun operations at their demonstration plant in Salamanca. The plant has a capacity to treat 25,000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW), from which up to 1.5 million liters of bioethanol will be produced for use as fuel. Their technology is being implemented at its plant in Hugoton (Kansas, USA), [...]
IEA says cellulosic biofuels capacity has tripled since 2010: new Task 39 global report
Tweet The IEA Task 39 group publishes its latest report on advanced biofuels — how is the global industry progressing? The International Energy Agency, through its Task 39 group, has published its 207-page report on the “Status of Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Facilities in 2012″. The report, in its pages, contains detailed project summaries as well [...]
7 Steps to meeting US renewable fuels targets
Tweet We go through the renewable fuels math — and find that the nattering nabobs of negativism might have crowed too soon. Sometimes you wonder what former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew would make of the current political landscape, and the hoo-haw over the US Renewable Fuel Standard. Back in 1970, he decried the “nattering nabobs [...]
ARPA-E launches $20M Project REMOTE – bioconversion of natural gas to liquid fuels
Tweet ARPA-E aims to drive liquid fuel production from abundant, affordable methane — and sees biobased technology as the path forward. In Washington, ARPA-E released its long-awaited funding opportunity announcement for Project REMOTE – Reducing Emissions using Methantrophic Organisms for Transport Energy. If that seems like a mouthful – think “bioconversion of natural gas to [...]
Abengoa’s Rotterdam plant closure boosts margins to 6-month highs
Tweet In the UK, Platts data shows that Abengoa’s unexpected shutdown of its ethanol plant in Rotterdam has boosted crushing margins in northeast Europe to six month highs, with wheat-to-ethanol margins reaching $36.2 per cubic meter and milling-to-ethanol reaching $2.91 per cubic meter. Last week corn-to-ethanol margins hits $56.3 per cubic meter. Ethanol has in [...]
Can the US still meet its 2022 biofuels targets?
Tweet As cellulosic biofuels technologies start to deploy — critics and friends ask, 36 billion gallons by 2022, can it still be done? Yep, there’s a pathway. In Washington, the US Energy Information Administration released a map and commentary on its website this week — indicating the spread of commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels, while cautioning that [...]
Battle for the Barrel: Ethanol strikes back as industry is “under siege but fighting back.”
Tweet In a fiery address at the National Ethanol Conference, RFA chief Bob Dinneen rallies his troops. Patton would have been proud. It might have been Patton, or it might have been The Godfather — but Renewable Fuels Association CEO Bob Dinneen appears to have definitely been channeling Francis Ford Coppola in a fiery keynote [...]
The 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard: Biofuels Digest’s 10-Minute Guide
Tweet The 2013 RFS2 proposed standards are out – what do they mean? Who’s in clover, who’s in trouble? Our 10-Minute Guide details the Volumes, the Issues and the Opportunities. In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its proposed 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS2). The proposal will be open for a 45-day public comment period [...]
