Green Energy Resources Inc. has won a 1-year, $27 million contract to supply high-powered woodchips to Germany from Texas for renewable energy. With over 16,000 BTUs of heat, the woodchips comprise more BTUs than majority of grades of coal and without emissions of carbon dioxide. An internationally approved scientific agency has tested and verified the woodchips’ heating value.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has awarded a contract to Pall Corporation to develop a vital filtration and separation processes for an advanced biofuels project of U.S. Department of Energy. Pall Corporation is a world leader in filtration, separation and purification technology. By winning the contract, Pall Corporation has become a part of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC). It is an initiative from the federal government under the ARRA (American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) to advance the creation of biofuels industry in the country, to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and to generate jobs.
The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Now a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists indicates that plant species diversity and composition are key factors in potential energy yield per acre from biomass harvested from CRP land.
Envirepel Energy announced that its first renewable facility, the Kittyhawk Project, will be reopened by April 2010. Envirepel Energy, based in California, is a privately held company. To address the challenge of a shareholder proxy effort, the facility was temporarily closed in June 2009.
A University of Nevada’s successful renewable energy research project is being scaled up to a demonstration-scale project. The technology converts wastewater sludge to electricity.
American Jianye Greentech Holdings announced that its subsidiary company, Heilongjiang New Clean Fuels Co., Ltd, has established an office and is finishing the construction of a new clean fuels manufacturing facility in Tieling City, China. American Jianye manufactures and distributes alcohol-based fuel products for automobiles in China.
The Oxford Catalysts Group was presented with an award for Excellence in the Field of Environmental Technology Commercialisation by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, at the CleanEquity Monaco 2010 conference. This invitation-only clean technology conference was attended by 36 next-generation technology companies, which presented to over 250 delegates from four continents.
A next-generation biorefinery project, EuroBioRef, was launched on 1st March 2010 by the EU. Financed under the 7th Framework Programme of the EU, the EuroBioRef project aims to cover the entire biomass conversion chain ranging from raw materials to final commercial products. The participants in the four-year €23 million project include 28 partners from 14 different countries.
The Golden Field Office and Department of Energy (DOE) has granted a blanket purchase agreement to R.W. Beck, a 100% subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to support the Biomass Program of The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The blanket purchase agreement with a ceiling of $21 million expires on 30th September 2015.
The city of Indio in Riverside County has been selected by Golden State Biofuel to locate its first biofuel refinery in California. Designed to produce one million gallons per year, this scalable refinery will serve San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, the High Desert and Inland Empire areas.
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