Genome of Biofuel Model Crop Grass Sequenced
US - US Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass...

Community Solar Project Proposed
US - Philadelphia company Community Energy is seeking to build a series of solar panels 40 acres in East Drumore Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Freedom for a Viable Biomass Material
US - Collaboration between a Mississippi State University research agronomist and Georgia’s self-proclaimed “sodfather” may offer the Southeast the “Freedom” to be the centre of alternative energy...

Conference Examines Future of Biofuels Production
US - Cropfields could play a major role in future energy needs, and some of the world's top researchers will discuss the challenges and opportunities for agriculture in the renewable fuels industry...

New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida
US - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have collected 46 new populations of switchgrass in Florida, adding valuable new accessions to the germplasm collection of...

Energy Crops for Thermochemical Biofuel Production
US - Energy crop company Ceres is working with international biomass to liquids technology company, CHOREN, to get the most out of energy crops for thermochemical conversion to advanced low-carbon...

Switchgrass Resarched at OSU
US - A study at Oklahoma State University has discovered that 50 million acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture in the US could be used to grow perennial grasses, such as switchgrass...

When Biofuels and Biosecurity Meet
AUSTRALIA - A symposium entitled Biosecurity in the New Bioeconomy: Threats and Opportunities, will be hosted by CSIRO at the Shine Dome in Canberra from Thursday, 19 to Saturday, 21...

Renewable Fuel Talk Turning to Cellulosic Gas
US - A Purdue University agricultural economist and energy policy analyst has changed his tune on renewable fuels.

OSU Experts Discuss Sweet Sorghum Use in Ethanol
US - With demand growing for ethanol produced from sources other than corn, researchers at Oklahoma State University said Wednesday that state agriculture producers could someday grow sweet sorghum...

Task Force on Biomass and Biofuels
US - Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has signed an Executive Order forming the Executive Task Force on Biomass and Biofuels Development in Kentucky.

Grant for East Tennessee Biomass Project
US — Genera Energy in collaboration with the University of Tennessee Biofuels Initiative is among the five recipients of the DOE’s latest round of biomass grants.

US$21m Award to Five Biomass Processing Projects
US - The United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced on 31 August that it will award up to $21 million to five projects for handling and delivering high-tonnage biomass feedstocks to producers...

Grasses Seen as Potential Energy Source
US - University of Georgia scientists have been given $2 million in federal grants to research grasses with potential as biofuels.

Potential for Renewable Energy Crops
NEW MEXICO – The potential for renewable energy in agriculture and eastern New Mexico’s contributions to biofuel efforts will be topics of interest at the annual field day at New Mexico State...

$6.3 million Grants for Biofuels Research
WASHINGTON - US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu have announced the joint selection of awards of up to $6.3 million towards fundamental...

$250,000 Grant for Biofuel Crops Research
US - Producing biofuel crops can help the environment and ease demand for fossil fuels -- or it can do exactly the opposite, depending on how farmers manage the land.

K-State Searching for Best Plants to Fuel Cars
US – In a field tucked into the northern side of this college town, just across from the Kansas State University football complex, some unusually tall plants are growing. They are part of the...

URI Professor Turns on Biofuel 'Switch'
US - The research of a University of Rhode Island professor is paving the way for a future of biofuels and renewable energy on a local and national level.

Prairie Grass as a Biomass
US - The Mdewakanton Sioux and Rahr Malting are to open a biomass plant in Shakopee, Minnesota.

Bioelectricity Promises More Than Ethanol
US - While biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests...

Bioelectricity Outruns Biofuels
US - Employing bioelectricity to power battery-electric-vehicles rather than cellulosic ethanol to power internal-combustion-engines can produce an average of 81% more kilometres as well as 108...

Advantages of Switchgrass
US - Switchgrass could be a crop for alternative energy with the potential to heat greenhouses or a school buildings Zane Helsel, a specialist in alternative energy from Rutgers University told...

$1.5million to URI Professor for Biofuel Research
US - The research of a University of Rhode Island professor is paving the way for a future of biofuels and renewable energy on a local and national level.

Bioenergy Collaborative Moves Forward
US - The Clemson University Restoration Institute is to join forces with the Savannah River National Laboratory to study how agricultural resources can help reduce South Carolina's dependence...