Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has announced that Range Fuels, Inc., a Colorado-based cellulosic ethanol company, will build Georgia’s first wood-based cellulosic ethanol plant in Treutlen County. “Georgia will be a national leader in cellulosic ethanol, and Range Fuel’s investments here will be a major step forward helping us address our state’s long-term energy issues,” said Governor Perdue at the Georgia …
American Le Mans Goes With Ethanol Blend
The American Le Mans Series has partnered with the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council to make E10, “the official ethanol-enriched fuel” of the series. Scott Atherton, President and CEO of the American Le Mans Series, considers this a perfect fit for the platform that is the American Le Mans Series. “We’ve often described the American Le Mans Series providing a …
Closing Bell Grand Opening
The closing bell on the NASDAQ rang in New York Wednesday from Albert City, Iowa at the site of the U.S. BioEnergy plant grand opening ceremony. Gordon Ommen (center), CEO and Chairman of US BioEnergy (USBE) rang the NASDAQ remote closing bell along with Bruce Aust (far right), Executive Vice President of NASDAQ to celebrate the plant’s opening and the …
Market Ethanol to Women
A new survey indicates that the ethanol industry might want to consider getting women more pumped up about ethanol. The survey was conducted by sending 9,000 emails to women readers of magazines published by Meredith Corporation, which includes some of the oldest and most popular, such as Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal and Family Circle. Of the 17 …
Interview with GM Executive
Mary Beth Stanek, GM’s director for Environment and Energy, has been making the midwest rounds recently talking about ethanol and the auto industry. This week she was in Des Moines at a biofuels forum sponsored by Successful Farming magazine. Last month she hit the Jackpot – Jackpot Junction, that is – in Morton, Minnesota where she attended the Minnesota Ag …
Michigan Gov Calls for $100 M for Alt Fuels
As predicted in the Detroit Free Press and reported here yesterday, Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has called for $100 million dollars in public and private money to be put into alternative energy investments. From the speech posted on her website: This new industry, so critical to our economy, our national security, and our environment is already setting up shop …
Missouri’s Half Billion Dollar Biofuels Industry
Missouri’s State Department of Economic Development says Missouri will see $542 million each year for the next several years from the biofuels industry in the state. From a press release on Governor Matt Blunt’s web site: “The production of renewable fuels is one of Missouri agriculture’s greatest success stories,” Blunt said. “In the same way that Missouri’s family farmers rose …
BP Funds Energy Biosciences Institute
BP has chosen the University of California Berkeley, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to join in a $500 million research program that will explore how bioscience can be used to increase energy production and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment. According to a news release, the Energy Biosciences Institute will perform …
Grand Opening Brings Wall Street to the Heartland
US BioEnergy Corporation (NASDAQ: USBE) is celebrating the grand opening Wednesday of the company’s newest ethanol production facility by ringing the closing bell on the NASDAQ from the plant in Albert City, Iowa. The feat will be accomplished remotely via satellite from the 100 mgy plant which actually started operations in December. “Most companies go to New York in order …
Ag Outlook Forum Focuses on Energy
The theme for USDA’s 83rd annual Agricultural Outlook Forum next month is “Agriculture at the Crossroads: Energy, Farm and Rural Policy.” “USDA’s 2007 Agricultural Outlook Forum explores renewable energy’s future in biofuels, cellulosic, methane, and wind,” said Johanns. “The Forum’s national conversation about agriculture centers on the fascinating opportunities and challenges of renewable energy in the next farm bill and …