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How Farm Waste May Make Biofuels Matter Again
By Javier E. David Imagine a world where leftover corn, wheat and wood chips can be used to power your car. That’s the aim of cellulosic ethanol, a budding sector of the renewable fuel industry that...
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Wood As Fuel, A Euro Favorite, Called Into Doubt
Logging could result in large amounts of carbon being released from deep in forest soils, according to a new study. It’s a timely report given Europe’s growing embrace of wood as a carbon neutral...
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Lists, Maps and Infographics: Clean Energy Information Resources
Any newcomer to the world of clean energy might become quickly lost in the maze of various renewable sources, technologies, incentive programs, efficiency opportunities, and other complexities in what...
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Beyond Petroleum, For Real this Time
UK oil major BP made a big splash in 2000 when it changed its name to “Beyond Petroleum” (originally British Petroleum) and changed its logo to a sunburst design that was supposed to represent the...
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Energy News Roundup: Ford F-150 to Come with Natural Gas Option
Ford is going to offer a natural gas option for its 2014 F-150 truck. “‘We may look back on this launch as when natural gas really became a mass-market fuel for retail customers as well as fleet...
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Energy News Roundup: Surprise!
“I’ve fracked wells before.” – Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. [National Journal] Former UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, who was recently released from jail after serving part of a sentence for...
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EPA Releases Finalized 2013 RFS Requirements
EPA’s 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) require blending of 16.55 billion gallons of renewable fuels into transportation fuel, providing additional lead time and flexibility for compliance. On...
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Energy Quote of the Day: On Cellulosic Ethanol Disappointment
As the US ethanol industry expanded, it quickly became clear that numerous limitations and complications came with using food crops – primarily corn in the US – to manufacture fuel. As is often the...
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Navy Captain: Biofuels Fall Short of Energy Security Goals
The plane uses a biofuel blend of JP-5 aviation fuel and camelina oil. An examination of liquid biofuels published in Strategic Studies Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal for security professionals,...
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Energy News Roundup: Panda Poop May Be the Key to Cellulosic Success
Microbes in panda feces have shown some promise in making cellulosic biofuel production cheaper and more efficient. “Current methods for breaking down non-food plant material (stalks, stems and cobs)...
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Gas-to-Liquids: Primus Pursues Cheaper Drop-In Fuels
Alternative fuel company Primus Green Energy has just opened a gas-to-liquids demonstration plant in New Jersey. With natural gas prices trading well below oil prices, and US gas reserves abundant,...
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Abengoa Tests Its Mettle In US Market
Spanish technology firm Abengoa, which operates renewables projects worldwide, has listed its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange as part of a push effort to raise its profile in the US. Abengoa has...
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Energy News Roundup: Microsoft vs Google in Renewables Race
Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that it had signed a 20-year agreement to buy all of the 110 megawatt Keechi wind farm’s electricity production marks a big step for the company in going “carbon...
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AFPM Letter to the White House on 2014 Biofuel Blending Requirements
Continuing this week’s coverage of the ethanol blending battle raging in Washington, we’re bringing attention to a letter the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers recently penned to...
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Energy News Roundup: EPA Pulls Back on Ethanol, Solar Plants Burning Birds...
The EPA announced its proposed 2014 biofuel blending requirements late last week and reduced the volume requirements for the first time. Oil refining interests and renewable fuels proponents have...
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Energy News Roundup: Statoil Moving Away from Oil-linked Gas Pricing
Statoil has been proactively linking the contractual price of natural gas to European gas trading hubs and abandoning oil-linked pricing as Brussels pushes for market liberalization, consumers fight...
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Video: Experts Present their Views on Ethanol and Advanced Biofuels
The debate about using ethanol and advanced biofuels to further US environmental goals recently reached a crescendo when the AP released a deeply-researched investigative report into the biofuel...
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Capital Markets, Regulatory Certainty Needed to Scale up US Advanced Biofuel...
Renewable transportation fuels like ethanol have been under the microscope lately, as fighting over the Renewable Fuel Standard ratcheted up in the days leading up to EPA’s proposed 2014 blending...
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Algae-based Advanced Biofuels Trickling into US Market
This second video in a 3-part series from the Advanced Biofuels Association highlights successes and challenges facing a company that seeks to commercialize next-generation, renewable transportation...
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The Yeast in Your Beer can Also Produce Hydrocarbons
The last video in a 3-part series from the Advanced Biofuels Association features a San Francisco-based company that’s making renewable diesel fuel in Brazil and renewable jet fuel that is being tested...
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