“We will have enough votes” … that’s the promise from U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer when asked about the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, the latest piece of legislation that would reinstate the $1-a-gallon biodiesel federal tax credit. Talk Radio News Service says the credit is part of a much larger $190 billion package that would extend …
GE to Supply Wind Turbines for Lake Erie Project
General Electric has been tapped to provide the wind turbines for an offshore wind project in Lake Erie. BusinessWeek reports GE will supply five direct-drive turbines that can generate as much as 4 megawatts each in a project with the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp., expected to be completed in 2012: “Offshore wind has the potential to create thousands of …
Biodiesel User New Holland Launches New YouTube Site
Long-time supporter of biodiesel New Holland has launched a new YouTube site, featuring all things farming, including New Holland’s long line of farm implements that run on biodiesel … some of those up to B100 blends. “Our YouTube channel creates an incredible opportunity to broadcast our brand and engage our audience with compelling content,” says New Holland’s North American Senior …
Study Finds Wind Produces 10,000 Jobs in Texas
A new study shows that wind energy has produced 10,000 jobs in Texas… and new infrastructure to carry more power could add another 40,000+ jobs to the Lone Star State. North American Windpower reports that the Perryman Group economic study, which comes as the American Wind Energy Association gets ready to host Windpower 2010 in Dallas next week, shows the …
Students’ Grease-to-Biodiesel Project Wins EPA Award
Some Rhode Island students are screaming, “TGIF!” But this time, it doesn’t mean “Thank God Its Friday;” it means “Turn Grease into Fuel.” The seven students from Westerly Middle School in Westerly, Rhode Island have picked up the 2010 President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) and are being recognized in Washington, DC: The students, Cassandra Lin, John Perino, Marissa Chiaradio, Taylor …
IA Biodiesel Board, Petroleum Marketers Offer Webinar
They work together to sell biodiesel, so it only makes sense that the Iowa Biodiesel Board and the Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Stores of Iowa have teamed up to offer a free webinar to help those who sell to the general public whether biodiesel is a good option for stations. The webinar, called “Biodiesel Economics: What’s In It For Me?” …
Iowa Wind Turbine Plant to Get $2.5 Mil Loan
A proposed wind turbine blade plant in Sioux City, Iowa is getting some help from that state’s economic development board. The Des Moines Register reports that the Iowa Economic Development Board gave TPI Composites approval to build a new blade manufacturing plant, while Sioux City will get a $2.5 million forgivable loan to improve a road running along the proposed …
Biodiesel By-Product Could be Made Into More Biodiesel
A by-product of biodiesel could end up being another feedstock for more of the green fuel. This article from Biodiesel Magazine tells how Spain-based Neuron BioIndustrial is turning glycerin, made during the biodiesel brewing process, into an oil called MicroBiOil, which, in turn, is being made into more biodiesel: Neuron BioIndustrial has selected a specific type of microorganism that metabolizes …
City Sewers Could be Next Fields for Biodiesel Stock
The next fields for biodiesel feedstocks could be underneath our streets. Environmental Protection Online reports that new research shows that municipal sludge would be a feedstock that would be nearly cost-competitive with diesel from petroleum: Author David M. Kargbo, Ph.D., with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 3’s Office of Innovation, Environmental Assessment & Innovation Division, points out that demand for …
Levin, Baucus Put Biodiesel Credit in Unemployment Bill
Legislation that would reinstate the federal $1-a-gallon tax credit for biodiesel has been attached to a new bill would extend unemployment benefits. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin (D-Michigan) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Montana) introduced the measure today: The bill would extend for one year (through 2010) the $1.00 per gallon production tax credit for …