Seafarers’ Scourge Provides Hope for Biofuel Future
UK - For centuries, seafarers were plagued by wood-eating gribble that destroyed their ships, and these creatures continue to wreak damage on wooden piers and docks in coastal communities.

Loan to a Biorefinery for Renewable Energy
US – Range Fuels, a Colorado based firm with a planned biorefinery located near Soperton, Georgia, is to receive a loan guaranteed by USDA Rural Development to make cellulosic biofuel from wood...

Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Opened in Georgia
US - Diamond Alternative Energy and American Process Energy Recovery have started operation at the biorefinery demonstration plant in Thomaston-Upson County, Georgia.

Second Generation Biofuels: Companies, Technologies and Market Prospects
GLOBAL - Over the past few years, most of the alternative energy scenarios have nodded in the direction of biofuels as potential alternatives to petroleum as liquid fuels.

High-Energy-Density Plant-Based Transport Fuel
US - A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative,...

Butalco to Begin Ethanol Production in Summer 2010
GERMANY - This summer, Butalco will use its proprietary new yeast technology to produce biofuel from agricultural waste in a pilot plant in Southern Germany.

Photosynthesis: A New Source of Electrical Energy?
FRANCE - Scientists in France have transformed the chemical energy generated by photosynthesis into electrical energy by developing a novel biofuel cell.

Ethanol Launches for Genencor and Novozymes
US - Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, introduced Accellerase DUET at the Renewable Fuels Association’s 15th Annual National Ethanol Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Agave Investigated as Biofuel Feedstock
MEXICO - Research is being carried out into the possibility of using agave as a biofuel feedstock.

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...

Gene Discovery to Increase Biomass for Green Fuel
UK - Manchester scientists have identified the genes that make plants grow fatter and plan to use their research to increase plant biomass in trees and other species – thus helping meet the need...

POET to Outline Ethanol Plans at London Conference
UK - POET Senior Vice President of Science and Technology Mark Stowers will outline POET’s process for commercialisation of cellulosic ethanol and a vision for the future of ethanol this week...

Verenium and BP Extend Galaxy Programme
US - Verenium Corporation, a developer of next-generation cellulosic ethanol and high-performance specialty enzymes, has extended the initial 18-month joint development programme established...

Sweet Success for Sustainable Biofuel Research
UK - Scientists have found a way to increase fermentable sugar stores in plants which could lead to plant biomass being easier to convert into eco-friendly sustainable biofuels. Their research...

Fermenting Fodder into Fuel
US - As climate change challenges continue to crop up around fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide, identifying renewable fuel materials and developing processes...

Microbes Produce Fuels Directly from Biomass
US - A collaboration led by researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass....

Final Grant Award for Cellulosic Project Approved
US - The Iowa Department of Economic Development on Thursday approved an agreement for the final $5.25 million in financial assistance to POET’s Project LIBERTY, a commercial-scale cellulosic...

DuPont Danisco to Open Plant in Vonore
US - DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE) and University of Tennessee/Genera Energy LLC will hold a grand opening celebration for one of the nation’s first cellulosic ethanol demo plants...

Plans for Hybrid Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in Kansas
US - Abengoa Bioenergy and Mid-Kansas Electric Company have put forward plans for the first commercial-scale hybrid cellulosic ethanol and power plant in the US, Abengoa Bioenergy Hybrid of Kansas,...

Biofuels Sector Helping Farmers to Diversify
CANADA - The growth of the Canadian renewable fuels industry has helped boost farmers' prospects in the country, it has been claimed.

China Maps Cassava Genome
CHINA - China has completed the genome sequencing of three varieties of cassava whose roots are used to produce ethanol.

Advanced Biofuel Process from EERC
US - The Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corporation, from Bellingham, Washington, are poised to market a novel and groundbreaking cellulosic...

End to Thai Import Ban Pushes up Cassava Prices
CAMBODIA - Cassava prices have gone up as demand has increased, both at home and from Thailand since the latter country ended its import ban on Cambodian material.

US Energy Lab Working with Sorghum
US - The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is producing cellulosic ethanol and processing one tonne a day of feedstock.

Biofinery Demonstration Plant for Upson County
US – Thomaston in Upson County, Georgia is to be home to a new biorefinery demonstration plant, the result of a partnership between Diamond Alternative Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Valero...