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DoE Awards Carbo Analytics Grant to Develop Biofuels Sugar Analysis System

Carbo Analytics, developers of sugar analysis systems, today announced that it has been awarded a Department of Energy (DoE) grant for the development of a biofuels sugar analysis system.

11 Jul 2013

New Report Analyzes Opportunities in European Biomass and Biogas Power Market

Europe's aim to produce 20 percent of its total power from renewable sources by 2020 will sustain the region's biomass and biogas power market.

5 Jul 2013

Frost & Sullivan Report Suggests Renewable Energy Targets to Sustain European Biopower Market

Europe's aim to produce 20 percent of its total power from renewable sources by 2020 will sustain the region's biomass and biogas power market. Although biomass and biogas installed capacity will widen as a new wave of coal-to-biomass power plant conversions gains momentum, year-on-year revenue growth is likely to decrease.

From Frost & Sullivan 4 Jul 2013

Cornell Student Teams Win EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet Award

Two Cornell student teams – a cookstove fuel/biochar group and the AguaClara water filtration project – won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award June 19. With about 45 teams in the competition, Cornell was the only school with two of the seven winning teams.

2 Jul 2013

Industrial Biotechnology Explores Advances in Fungal Biology and Bioengineering Fungal Systems

Among the increasingly valuable roles fungi are playing in the biotechnology industry is their ability to produce enzymes capable of releasing sugars from plants, trees, and other forms of complex biomass, which can then be converted to biofuels and biobased chemicals.

2 Jul 2013

UBRG Subsidiary Awarded New Contract to Supply Natural Gas to Major Power Utility Customer

Universal Bioenergy Inc., (UBRG), a publicly traded independent diversified energy company, that markets and distributes natural gas, electricity, petroleum and coal, announced that its subsidiary, NDR Energy Group was awarded new a contract to supply natural gas to a major electric power utility customer. The contract is projected to generate several million dollars in additional revenue.

29 Jun 2013

Researchers Engineer Bacteria to Produce Gasoline-Like Biofuel

New lines of engineered bacteria can tailor-make key precursors of high-octane biofuels that could one day replace gasoline, scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School report in the June 24 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

27 Jun 2013