By Erin Voegele / Ethanol Magazine / November 20, 2009 Poet LLC recently announced it has reduced the per-gallon cost of cellulosic ethanol production by $1.78 during the first year of operation at its Scotland, S.D.-based pilot-scale production facility. According to the company, the cost reductions achieved during their first year of operating the pilot plant [...] [...more]

UOP process technology produced green jet fuel from camelina used in Boeing 747 demonstration flight DES PLAINES, Ill., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — UOP LLC, a Honeywell ( HON) company, announced today that its renewable jet fuel process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM [...] [...more]

By Jim Massey / The Country Today / 11/18/2009 The company that built the manure digester at Crave Brothers Farm in Dodge County has been selected as the builder for the Cow-Power Project in Dane County. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announced Nov. 9 that Wisconsin-based biogas energy developer Clear Horizons and SCC Americas have been selected [...] [...more]

By Erin Ailworth / Boston Globe Staff / November 9, 2009 Two years ago, Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm visited alternative fuel maker Mascoma in Boston with one goal: to persuade the company to build a factory in her job-hungry state. “She personally had us on the list to recruit,’’ recalled Mascoma’s chief executive, Bruce Jamerson. “Massachusetts, [...] [...more]

DEXTER, MI, November 09, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ — Solution Recovery Services: SRS’ Pilot Plant for algae oil extraction allows SRS to support clients who do not have their own extraction facilities by offering toll processing of large quantities of algae. SRS also has a benchtop system which allows for screening of small samples to identify the [...] [...more]

PoetTv / October 30, 2009 Jeff Broin, the CEO of POET, was the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual Commercial Ethanol Technology and Research Workshop. The two day conference was held in Sioux Falls, S.D. with the first day in the technology center at POET’s headquarters. Organized by Biofuels Journal, the event brought people from across the [...] [...more]

By Bob Stallman (president of the American Farm Bureau Federation) | LaCrosse Tribune | November 1, 2009 WASHINGTON – America is increasingly committed to being a nation fueled by clean, renewable, domestic energy. And with good reason! This undertaking bolsters our nation’s security, shields our economy from dependence on foreign energy sources, achieves long-term economic growth and [...] [...more]

by Katharine Grayson Staff Writer / Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal / October 26, 2009 BioCee Inc., a startup that’s commercializing technology invented by a University of Minnesota professor, has received a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The firm will use the funds to further develop its technology, which could ultimately help [...] [...more]

UW Energy Institute / October 26, 2009 UW-Madison’s Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies provided the opportunity for local community members to get a taste of the dilemmas in planning for the future of Wisconsin’s electric power system. With discussions topics ranging from the availability of biomass to the merits of wind power, participants at [...] [...more]

By Cindy Zimmerman / DomesticFuel.com / October 20, 2009 A nationwide survey conducted for the National Corn Growers Association finds broad public respect and trust for family farmers and support for corn as food, feed and fuel. Click here for full article. [...more]