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With Support Renewable Power Will Provide 40 Percent of Global Electricity by 2050

With adequate financial and political support, renewable energy technologies like wind and photovoltaics could supply 40 percent of the world's electricity by 2050

11 Mar 2009

Shell and Codexis Expand Collaboration On Next Generation Biofuel

Royal Dutch Shell plc and Codexis, Inc. today announced an expanded agreement to develop better enzymes that could accelerate commercialisation of next generation biofuels

11 Mar 2009

Renewable Energy Being Developed for Ethanol Industry

Researchers from Iowa State University, Frontline BioEnergy and Hawkeye Energy Holdings are using a grant from the Iowa Power Fund to develop new burner and catalyst technologies to efficiently produce ethanol and provide clean, renewable power for heating and drying equipment

10 Mar 2009

Outdoor Power Equipment Institute Says e15 Fuel Could Injure Operators, Equipment and the Environment

The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) today announced that it has serious concerns with a premature rush to 15 percent ethanol (E15) or other mid-level fuel blends as being suggested by pro-ethanol producers

9 Mar 2009

Researchers Looking to Produce Clean Renewable ENergy With Low Emissions Burner and Ethanol Production Catalyst

Iowa State University researchers are working to produce clean, renewable energy by developing a new, low-emissions burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production

9 Mar 2009

Kreido Biofuels And Four Rivers BioEnergy Complete Sale of Assets

Kreido Biofuels today jointly announced with Four Rivers BioEnergy the closing of their previously announced sale and purchase of substantially all of the assets of Kreido Biofuels to Four Rivers BioEnergy

5 Mar 2009

Cellulosic Biofuels Promise A Low Cost, Environmental Friendly Petroleum Replacement

Cellulosic biofuels offer similar, if not lower, costs and very large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum-derived fuels

5 Mar 2009

United States Ethanol Production for 2008 Exceeds 9 Billion Gallons

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), American ethanol facilities produced more than 9.2 billion gallons of ethanol in 2008

4 Mar 2009

Study Says Don't Dig Up Land to Make Biofuels

To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today's technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than to plow it up for corn to make biofuel, according to a comprehensive Duke University led study

2 Mar 2009