Gasoline Produced from Biomass by 2010
US - Turning everyday waste into gasoline may seem like a distant dream, but thanks to researchers with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Byogy Renewables Inc., it...

State Researches Ethanol Trees
US - A new three-year, nearly $1 million Rural Development Biomass Research and Development Grant from the US Department of Agriculture will allow North Carolina State University scientists...

Biomass Power Plant Go-ahead for Nacogdoches
TEXAS - Austin City Council in Texas has unanimously approved a $2.3 billion biomass power plant to be built in Sacul, Nacogdoches County.

Customers Required to Pay for 'Green Power'
US - North Carolina's regulators have set a suggested price for electricity produced from swine waste at more than twice the current price customers pay for power.

Incentives for Energy Production from Biomass
CANADA - Manitoba Hydro has introduced the Bioenergy Optimization Program to encourage the use of sustainable biomass as a fuel for the production of combined heat and power at customer...

Gasoline From Biomass Could Fuel Tanks by 2010
TEXAS, US - Turning everyday waste into gasoline may seem like a distant dream, but thanks to researchers with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Byogy Renewables Inc.,...

Nanoscale Catalysts Could Tap Syngas
IOWA, US - Say the word “biofuels” and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there’s another, older technology called gasification that’s getting a new look from...

MSU to Create Genomic Clearinghouse for Biofuel Crops
US - Michigan State University scientists, armed with a half-million-dollar federal grant, are creating an easily accessible, Web-based genomic database of information on crops that...

Electricity from Animal Waste
US - A company based near the Woodlands has broken into the renewable energy market by converting animal and vegetable waste into electricity.

Biomass Plant Planned for Tallahasse
US - A biomass gas power plant planned for Tallahassee could use by-products from the Buckeye Florida pulp mill in Taylor County as source material.

Georgia University Looks to New Biomass Technology
US - University of Georgia researchers have developed a new technology that promises to dramatically increase the yield of ethanol from readily available non-food crops, such as Bermudagrass,...

$40 Million Grants for Small-Scale Biorefinery Projects
WASHINGTON – The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two small-scale cellulosic biorefinery projects in Park Falls, Wisconsin and Jennings, Louisiana for federal funding of up...

CleanTech Biofuels Aquires Biomass North America Licensing
US - CleanTech Biofuels Inc. is to take over Biomass North America Licensing Inc.

Ethanol from Municipal Waste
US – Fulcrum BioEnergy plans to build one of the first commercial-scale production facilities for converting municipal solid waste to ethanol.

Tyson and Syntroleum Approve Dynamic Fuels Plant
US - Tyson Foods and Syntroleum Corporation have given final approval for plans to build and fund Dynamic Fuels’ first renewable synthetic fuels facility in Geismar, Louisiana.