ACE: RFS is Catalyst for Innovation

Joanna Schroeder

The House Energy and Commerce Committee on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) recently released a second white paper, “Agricultural Sector Impacts,” in an effort to make decisions on the future of the RFS. Comments were due today and in response, Brian Jennings, Executive Vice President for the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) notes that the RFS is a catalyst for …

ACE, biofuels, RFS

CME to Offer Biodiesel, Ethanol RIN Futures Contracts

John Davis

Trader CME Group will be offering nine new futures contracts for Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) for biodiesel and ethanol, among other renewables. This company news release says they’ll be listed by and subject to the rules and regulations of NYMEX. “With the recent increase in volatility in RINs prices, we’ve seen strong interest from our customers and other market participants …

Biodiesel, Ethanol, RFS, RINS

Biodiesel Board to Host Webinar on Food, Fuel & Feed

John Davis

Our friends at the National Biodiesel Board are hosting a webinar on how making biodiesel from co-products of food production affects the cost of protein in the food supply on Monday, April 29, 2013 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM CDT: We’ll also examine how to grow the current biodiesel feedstock supply responsibly and sustainably in the context of federal policies …

Biodiesel, NBB, Webinar

Shell at ABLC: Don’t Blame Big Oil for Blend Wall

John Davis

One of the great things about the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference is the diverse group of biofuels stakeholders with diverse points of view. Case in point, Shell Oil’s presence at the gathering, and the company’s Downstream Policy & Advocacy Manager, North America, John Reese, who makes the contention that it’s not the oil companies who are creating the E15 blend …

advanced biofuels, Audio, biofuels, E15, Ethanol, Oil

NREL, Sandia Extend Support for truSolar

Joanna Schroeder

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and DOE’s Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) have extended their support for the truSolar Working Group’s efforts to develop uniform open source risk scoring standards and rating criteria for solar projects. These standards would facilitate lower transaction and capital costs and improve project finance liquidity within the commercial and industrial …

Electricity, Energy, Solar

Biofuels Can’t Get Overcome with Negativity Overhang

John Davis

There’s some real negativity hanging over the biofuels industry these days. And while any industry has risks, it seems that the setbacks loom larger over the renewable energy sector compared to what their competitors in the conventional energy sector face. In his talk before the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, “De-Risking a Risky World,” Fred Cannon, the CEO of cellulosic fuel …

advanced biofuels, Audio, biofuels

RFS Shown to Work Because It Makes Big Oil Nervous

John Davis

How can we tell the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) is working? By how nervous it’s making the big oil companies. That was the message attendees at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference near Washington, D.C. heard. “We are disrupting an existing marketplace,” says Brooke Coleman, Executive Director of the Advanced Ethanol Council. “We are not social media. We are not creating …

advanced biofuels, AEC, Audio, Cellulosic, Ethanol, Government, News, RFS

Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conf. Underway in DC

John Davis

Hello from the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, just a few miles south of the Nation’s capital at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center! A lot has been going on already this morning, but before it all got started, I caught up with Jim Lane, the editor for Biofuels Digest, who is putting on this event. He told me that …

advanced biofuels, AEC, Audio

EU Looks to Tax Argentine, Indonesian Biodiesel

John Davis

The European Union is targeting foreign biodiesel … again. Reuters reports this time the EU is looking to hit imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia with a duty to keep the green fuel out: Those countries represent 90 percent of EU biodiesel imports and face retroactive duties from Thursday if an investigation finds the countries have benefited from illegal …

Biodiesel, International

Lee Enterprises and ICM Forge Alliance

Joanna Schroeder

Lee Enterprises Consulting has formed of a strategic alliance with ICM, Inc. Recently, ICM developed a proprietary patent-pending Generation 1.5 Integrated Fiber to Cellulosic Ethanol Technology for the production of cellulosic ethanol. ICM’s Director of Sales and Product Management, Brock Beach, will serve as ICM’s liaison to the consulting group. “As ICM continues to expand our presence into other alternative …

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