Sen. Max Baucus, from Montana has taken the wraps off a tax package that is designed to help biodiesel and ethanol. This story from Ethanol Producer Magazine says Baucus’s bill would add enough money to put the total incentive $9 billion above the 2007 Farm Bill’s baseline levels… but part of that money would come from taking away from existing …
Power Plant Growing Algae for Biodiesel & Ethanol
A power plant near Farmington, New Mexico is working to make itself a greener operation. The Four Corners Power Plant is growing a crop of algae to be turned into ethanol and biodiesel. This story in the Farmington (NM) Daily Times says it is a circular process: Arizona Public Service Company, which owns the 2,040 megawatt coal-fired power plant, has …
Indiana Biodiesel Plant Gets Construction Funding
Indiana Clean Energy, LLC has secured funding for construction of an 80-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant near Frankfort, Indiana. This article from the Lafayette-West Lafayette (IN) Journal and Courier says Dougherty Funding is providing $52 million in financing to build the plant: “We believe this is a significant step in putting the final pieces in place so that we can break ground …
Former Military Base Becoming Biodiesel Producer
The former naval shipyard at Seneca, Illinois near Chicago will soon be the home to a 60-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant. This story on the Chief Engineer.org web site says Nova Biosource Fuels is building the plant: One of the premier components of the project is the pre-fabricated pipe that transports the biodiesel fuel within the plant. Nova Biosource chose Edwards Engineering, …
Major Biodiesel Plant Headed for Kentucky
A 60-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant is slated for Paducah, Kentucky, scheduled to be finished in three years. This story on the KFVS-TV web site says Southland Renewable Fuel will build the plant: McCracken County, the City of Paducah, Paducah-McCracken Riverport Authority and the Greater Paducah Economic Development Council announced the plans Tuesday. The plant will use an environmentally friendly “waterless wash” …
Iowa Farmers Union Sponsors Biodiesel Workshop
The Iowa Farmers Union has joined with Green World Biofuels to offer a workshop to help people brew their own biodiesel to use in their homes or farm equipment. Covering the entire process from start to finish, it will be at the Green World Biofuels facility near Tiffin, just northwest of Iowa City on Friday, November 16th. This press release …
Propel Biofuels Ready for Seattle Assault
In what is being compared to a military assault, Seattle-based Propel Biofuels is ready to launch its offensive to sell biodiesel in the Pacific Northwest. This article in the Seattle Times sets the scene: The makeshift headquarters of Propel Biofuels looks a bit like an Allied war room before D-Day. A map of Seattle and its environs teems with pins …
Biofuel Production Boosted by High-Biomass Research
Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station of The Texas A&M University System are collaborating in high biomass sorghum production for biofuels, through an exclusive, multi-year joint research and commercialization agreement. The collaboration is meant to focus on plants that are not designed to produce grain, but extensive resources for biomass. Biomass is the latest raw …
ConocoPhillips CEO to Share Thoughts on ‘Shared Energy Future’
“Our Shared Energy Future” is the topic ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO James Mulva will be discussing on Wednesday October 3, 2007. Mulva will present his thoughts on U.S. energy policy and layout plans for incorporating renewable fuels before the Detroit Economic Club at Burton Manor in Livonia, MI. Mr. Mulva will describe the shortcomings of current U.S. energy policy, and …
Nova Tops List of Rising Green Stocks
Financial web site Kiplinger.com has put a biodiesel producer which uses a unique feedstock for biodiesel at the top of its “Five Green Up-and-Comers” stocks. The article says that Nova Biosource Fuels use of animal fat, which would normally be thrown out, is at the head of the class: Rising prices for the raw materials used to make biodiesel, known …