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TREIA to Organize “The Shaping Texas’ Fuel Ethanol Policy Conference”

The current approach of Texas towards fuel ethanol is a complex subject that is about to be discussed at the “Shaping Texas’ Fuel Ethanol Policy Conference” to be held in Downtown Austin on September 10, 2010 at the Omni Hotel in San Jacinto.

11 Aug 2010

Solazyme Raises $52 Million in a Round of Series D Financing

Solazyme Inc, a global leader in the field of algal biotechnology and a producer of renewable oil, has generated $52 million by means of a round of Series D financing.

11 Aug 2010

Gevo to Purchase Ethanol Production Facility of Agri-Energy for Isobutanol Production

Gevo, an advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals company, has inked definitive agreements for acquiring the ethanol production facility of Agri-Energy in the location of Luverne in Minnesota for the purpose of producing isobutanol.

11 Aug 2010

Enviva Takes Over CKS Energy for Enhancing Wood Pellet Biomass Production

Enviva LP, a global leader in the manufacture of processed biomass fuel and wood pellets in Europe and the U.S., has acquired a private company CKS Energy Inc. that is involved in the manufacture of wood pellets for commercial, residential and industrial uses.

11 Aug 2010

BIOREM Partners Sinopec for Crucial Industrial Project

BIOREM Inc, a leading company in the clean technology industry that specializes in designing and supplying biological-based high-efficiency air emissions control systems, has received an important new order from China’s Sinopec at a value of CAD$520,000.

10 Aug 2010

Santa Rosa County Commission to Review IEP’s Jay Biofuel Plant

The Santa Rosa County Commission is all set to review a biofuel plant valued at $30 million that Integrated Energy Partners (IEP), Inc. intends to construct near Jay after providing revenue bonds utilizing the name of the county.

10 Aug 2010

Airlines Test Jet Biofuel to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Care2 report indicates that airlines in the USA alone generate around three percent of the total carbon dioxide produced in the country and the use biofuels is expected to make considerable drop in greenhouse gas emissions.

10 Aug 2010

Mexico Aims to Supply Jet Biofuel to USA by 2015

Gilberto Lopez Meyer, Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services Director, said that his country is advantageously positioned than other similar countries to produce biofuel that can be utilized in aircrafts.

10 Aug 2010

Gevo Converts Plant Stalks and Wood Chips into Butanol, a Jet Fuel

Butanol contains more energy than biofuels such as ethanol and burns more efficiently to offer more mileage per gallon. Unlike biofuel, butanol does not suffer quantity ratio limitations for blending with gasoline.

10 Aug 2010

Biodiesel Lab Gets BQ-9000 Accreditation

The biofuel lab of the college was started by Don Heck, who currently holds the position of director of the fuel testing lab. According to Heck, the lab was originally started as a teaching lab in the year 2006 and was functioning from the greenhouse of the college

10 Aug 2010