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Tag: bioenergy

  • SOS! National Day of Action to Save Our Southern Forests

    -By Emi­ly Zucchi­no, Octo­ber 28, 2014, Dog­wood Alliance Today’s biggest threat to South­ern forests is the grow­ing bio­mass indus­try. The wood pel­let indus­try is expand­ing at a rate that is impos­si­ble for South­ern forests to sus­tain. Our beau­ti­ful forests are being clear-cut, processed into pel­lets and then shipped to Europe to be burned for electricity. We…

  • Biofuel Company Files for Bankruptcy

    - by Katie Fehren­bach­er, Novem­ber 11, 2014, Gigaom.com Bio­fu­el com­pa­ny KiOR, which has become a sym­bol of the dif­fi­cul­ties of ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists invest­ing in clean tech­nol­o­gy star­tups, final­ly filed for bank­rupt­cy this week, many months after shut­ting down its bio­fu­el plant and oper­at­ing on fumes, unable to pay its debts. Many, includ­ing myself, have been pre­dict­ing this for awhile…

  • Indiana Ethanol Facility Fined $9,600 for Clean Air Act Violations

    - by Seth Slabaugh, Novem­ber 11, 2014, The Star Press Car­di­nal Ethanol has paid a $9,600 fine to set­tle a com­plaint that it vio­lat­ed its Clean Air Act oper­at­ing permit. The penal­ty is insignif­i­cant in light of the grass­roots, investor-owned com­pa­ny’s prof­itabil­i­ty — $26.4 mil­lion net income for the fis­cal year end­ed Sept. 30, 2013. Pres­i­dent Jeff Painter…

  • Industry Take: How Will 2014 Elections Impact Biomass?

    - by Bob Cleaves, Novem­ber 23, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine On Nov. 4, Amer­i­cans vot­ed. This elec­tion was a deci­sive vic­to­ry for Repub­li­cans. Sen­ate, House, guber­na­to­r­i­al and even state leg­is­la­ture races across the coun­try saw con­ser­v­a­tives pre­vail. These results were expect­ed, sur­pris­ing to polit­i­cal types only in the thor­ough­ness of the wins across the board. What does this…

  • Is Cellulosic Ethanol All it’s Cracked Up to Be?

    - by Edward Dodge, Decem­ber 10, 2014, Break­ing Energy The EPA has long pro­mot­ed cel­lu­losic ethanol as the future of bio­fu­els, but tech­ni­cal chal­lenges have kept pro­duc­tion far below tar­gets. A recent rule change allows RNG, renew­able nat­ur­al gas, to qual­i­fy as cel­lu­losic bio­fu­el even though RNG is not cel­lu­losic, but this helps EPA appear to be meet­ing their goals.…

  • 50-Megawatt Biomass Incinerator Completed in Woodville, Texas

    - Octo­ber 28, 2014, HartfordBusiness.com Glas­ton­bury con­struc­tion firm Gem­ma Pow­er Sys­tems has com­plet­ed the 49.9 megawatt con­struc­tion of a bio­mass plant in Woodville, Texas, three months ahead of schedule. The plant to be run by the East Texas Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive will oper­ate on chipped for­est waste. Con­struc­tion of the facil­i­ty began in 2012. Finan­cial terms were not…

  • 34-Megawatt Biomass Incinerator Proposed for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

    -  by Andy Bal­askovitz, Novem­ber 10, 2014, Mid­west Ener­gy News Devel­op­ers from metro Detroit have plans to build a $100 mil­lion, 34 MW bio­mass plant in the cen­tral Upper Penin­su­la, about 20 miles south of an aging coal plant that is the ongo­ing focus of the region’s ener­gy crisis. The com­pa­ny build­ing the plant, Mar­quette Green Ener­gy LLC, says it would…

  • UMaine to Study “Trashanol” Effect in Maine

    - by Grady Trim­ble,  Octo­ber 24, 2014, WLBZ A team of Uni­ver­si­ty of Maine researchers are gear­ing up to study the pos­si­bil­i­ty of bring­ing new tech­nol­o­gy called “Trashanol” to Maine. “Trashanol” is a waste-to-ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy devel­oped by Mary­land-based com­pa­ny Fiberight. Basi­cal­ly, it is a process that con­verts house­hold waste into fuel. The tech­nol­o­gy is spark­ing inter­est in East­ern…

  • Biomass Investigative Review Will Begin Soon in Gainesville, FL

    - Octo­ber 16, 2014, WCJB It’s offi­cial — an inves­tiga­tive review into deci­sions made between GRU and GREC offi­cials will soon begin. City offi­cials vot­ed to approve the con­tract to begin the review that will ques­tion deci­sions made relat­ing to the bio­mass plant. The city will be shelling out close to $190,000 for the review. Addi­tion­al costs will…

  • $91 Million Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Louisiana Biofuel Plant

    - Cole Avery, Octo­ber 3, 2014, The Times-Picayune Tom Vil­sack, the sec­re­tary of the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture, announced a $91 mil­lion loan guar­an­tee from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to help build a bio­mass fuel plant in Louisiana. Vil­sack trav­eled to Baton Rouge on Fri­day to make the announce­ment. He said the plant could have a “pro­found…