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Fortum Commissions New Bio-Oil Plant in Joensuu, Finland

Fortum’s new bio-oil plant has been commissioned in Joensuu, Finland. Producing bio-oil from wood-based raw materials, the plant is the first of its kind in the world on an industrial scale. The bio-oil plant is unique in that it has been integrated with Fortum’s Joensuu combined heat and power plant.

30 Nov 2013

Renewable Energy Group Partners with Dutch Hill Terminals to Market Biodiesel in New Jersey

Biodiesel producer and marketer Renewable Energy Group®, Inc., announced today it has entered into an agreement with Dutch Hill Terminals, a leading heating oil terminal in New Jersey, to market biodiesel and biodiesel blended heating oil at its Clifton, New Jersey location.

28 Nov 2013

BASF Commences Genomatica-Technology Based Commercial Butanediol Production

BASF has produced its first commercial volumes of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) from renewable raw material, and is offering this product to customers for testing and commercial use.

28 Nov 2013

New Insights into Hardy Bacteria Help Improve Biofuel Production

Scientists have charted a significant signaling network in a tiny organism that's big in the world of biofuels research. The findings about how a remarkably fast-growing organism conducts its metabolic business bolster scientists' ability to create biofuels using the hardy microbe Synechococcus, which turns sunlight into useful energy.

26 Nov 2013

Novel Method Enhances Biofuel Production in Tiny Marine Algae

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a method for greatly enhancing biofuel production in tiny marine algae.

22 Nov 2013

Harvesting Invasive Plants for Conversion into Ethanol Too Expensive and Non-Sustainable

Although invasive Asian carp have been successfully harvested and served on a dinner plate, harvesting invasive plants to convert into ethanol isn't as easy.

21 Nov 2013

Global Bioenergies Receives German BMBF Grant to Construct Second Industrial Pilot Plant

Global Bioenergies announces its decision to construct its second industrial pilot on the site of the Leuna refinery, close to Leipzig in Germany. This new pilot plant, to be supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through a EUR 5.7 million grant, should include a 3 year study at the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP). The pre-commercial pilot is designed for an isobutene production capacity of up to 100 tons per year.

21 Nov 2013

Researchers Work on Developing Advanced Biocatalyst Technologies for Biofuel Production

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories will use their expertise in protein expression, enzyme engineering and high-throughput assays as part of a multiproject, $34 million effort by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) aimed at developing advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

19 Nov 2013

EPA’s Tinkering with RFS, Corn Ethanol Mandate Will Not Help Relieve Impacts of Artificially-High Food Prices

A mere tinkering with the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and the corn ethanol mandate by the Environmental Protection Agency will not help relieve the impacts of artificially-high food prices, according to a grassroots food coalition.

18 Nov 2013

Proposed RFS Rule Could Chill Investments in Advanced Biofuels Projects

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and its advanced biofuel members will make every effort to correct a flawed proposed rule on the 2014 volume obligations for the Renewable Fuel Standard, the group said today in response to the official release of the proposal.

18 Nov 2013