Tag: DOE
House Appropriations Committee bill for Energy and Water cuts DOE renewable energy funding 39%
Tweet In Washington, the House Appropriations Committee has released its Energy and Water Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill includes a $1.4 billion cut for the DOE below fiscal year 2013 levels. The proposal would fund energy programs funded at $983 million – a cut of $911 million (-50%) below the fiscal year [...]
DOE issues RFI on waste- to-energy technologies
Tweet In Washington, the US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (has issued a request for information (RFI) regarding waste- to-energy (WTE) technologies. Waste Applications for Sustainable Technologies for Energy seeks feedback from stakeholders on the state of technology and commercial readiness of WTE. This RFI seeks input from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, [...]
Biofuels Short Takes: Moniz confirmed as DOE Secretary; Farm Bill revealed, E2 industry survey
Tweet Moniz confirmed as US Secretary of Energy. The US Senate confirmed MIT professor Ernest Moniz as US Secretary of Energy, in a 97-0 vote. Mike McAdams, president of the ABFA said, “The Advanced Biofuels Association strongly supports the confirmation of Ernest Moniz to be the next Secretary of Energy. We are pleased that President Obama [...]
Algae: Times and Needs Have Changed
Tweet By Barry Cohen, Executive Director, National Algae Association The DoE has spent $2.5 billion on algae research but to date nothing has been commercialized. Why? Because their mission is to develop technologies. It’s not their problem or concern what happens to them – they just continue to develop them! We need your help! We [...]
JBEI researchers develop new enzyme-less process for cellulosic ethanol
Tweet In California, Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a new technique for pre-treating cellulosic biomass with ionic liquids – salts that are liquids rather than crystals at room temperature. This new technique requires none of the expensive enzymes used in previous ionic liquid pretreatments, and makes [...]
“The European Parliament is making a bad biofuels proposal worse.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: wynndalcoEnt DOE Announces New Webinars on Integrating Solar Power into the Grid, Using Biofuels in Military Vehicles & more Sean_OHanlon: How #Algae #Biofuels technologies are growing in Qatar LeadrshpSystems The European Parliament is making a bad biofuels proposal worse
“EU fiddling while oil burns – time for proactive biofuels policy.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: GreenSkoopr US Energy Department announces projects to develop advanced drop-in biofuels for military jets and ships followEBP Podcast: #Biofuels mfg at Eastman Business Park (Legacy Assets Grow EBP) testRun24408567 EU fiddling while oil burns – time for proactive biofuels policy
BioProcess Algae gets $6.4 million DOE grant for military biofuels
Tweet In Iowa, BioProcess Algae LLC has been selected to receive a grant of up to $6.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as part of an innovative pilot-scale biorefinery project related to production of hydrocarbon fuels meeting military specification. The project will use renewable carbon dioxide, lignocellulosic sugars and waste heat through [...]
JBEI rewires lignin biosynthesis to boost sugar production in plants
Tweet In California, at researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) rewired the regulation of lignin biosynthesis and created an artificial positive feedback loop (APFL) to enhance secondary cell wall biosynthesis in specific tissue. The idea was to reduce cell wall recalcitrance and boost polysaccharide content without impacting plant development. [...]
I Have a Ream: Biofuels Digest’s 60-Second Guide to this week’s DC Overload
Tweet Bzzzzzzz! The DC Electric Squawk-Box is working overtime on energy issues. Here’s a 60-Second Guide to a long week of Washington screeds — and opportunities for you, the stakeholder, to respond. This week in Washington, it has been one for the record books, emailwise and biofuelswise. Reams and reams of emails attest to the [...]
