ClearFuels to Develop Tennessee Biomass Plant
US – ClearFuels Technology and Hughes Hardwood International have put forward plans to develop a commercial scale biorefinery to produce renewable jet or diesel fuel.

SAIC Awarded Biomass Engineering Agreement
US - Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) wholly-owned subsidiary, R.W. Beck, has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Golden...

Moves to Restrict Clean Energy Grants Attacked
US - In the wake of a new report revealing that a clean-energy grant programme in the stimulus has paid out more than $1 billion to foreign manufacturers, US Senators Charles E. Schumer, Bob...

Commission Steps up Biomass Use
EU - A major European Commission research initiative to improve and increase the sustainable use of biomass has been launched.

Official Backing for NewPage Biomass Plant
CANADA - Plans have been put forward for a biomass plant at the NewPage Point Tupper paper mill in Nova Scotia.

Wuhan Kaidi Invests in Forests for Biofuels
CHINA - Wuhan Kaidi Holding Investment Co Ltd, parent of Wuhan Kaidi Electric Power Co Ltd, has around 820,000 acres of forests for biofuel production, according to a report from the company...

EU Members Can Choose over GM Crop Cultivation
EU - The European Commission has announced its upcoming proposal on choice for Member States to cultivate or not genetically modified organisms (GMO) and approves five decisions on GMOs.

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.

Mitsui and Inbicon to Refine Biomass to Ethanol
ASIA - Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES), one of Japan’s leading heavy industries, and Inbicon, the Danish pioneer of cellulosic ethanol technology, have joined forces in a license agreement...

Increased Demand for US DDGS Expected in Canada
CANADA - As North America increased the production of fuel from renewable sources, ethanol production surged, simultaneously producing considerable volumes of the co-product distiller’s dried...

EU to Hit Renewable Targets
EU - The EU will meet its 2020 20 per cent renewable energy target - slightly exceeding it - according to an analysis by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) of all 27 Member States' national...

Measures to Deliver Renewables Targets Agreed
EU - By 2020 the European Union must source 20 per cent of its total energy (including heat, power and transport) from renewable sources. This target was set out in the Renewable Energy Directive...

Gaynor Hartnell Chief Executive of REA
UK - The Renewable Energy Association is the largest trade body for renewable energy in the UK and represents all renewable energy technologies. Gaynor Hartnell, who was formerly Director of...

Cocoa Bean Shells to Produce Renewable Energy
US - Chocolate producer, Lindt USA, and New Hampshire electric supplier, Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH), joined forces to produce renewable power in New Hampshire.

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,...

REGIX Discussions During Biomass Conference
FRANCE - The summarising and final conference of the French project REGIX (Unified references, methods and experiments to enable improved evaluation of potential agricultural and forestry lignocellulosic...

Biomass Plant gets Green Light from Planners
UK - AN application to build an £8 million biomass heat and power plant at Boyndie has been approved by councillors.

Ukraine Targeted for Integrated Refinery
UKRAINE - Alternativa (IOM) Limited and GreenShift Corporation today jointly announced that they have entered into an exclusive supply and cooperation agreement for the purpose of designing and...

Plans for Pilot Biofuel Plant in Sierra Leone Solidified
SIERRA LEONE - Tseai Energy Unlimited, an early-stage company that develops biofuel-generating agricultural processing plants to bring electricity to underdeveloped countries and boost their...

Canadian Gov't Delivers Energy Loans for Farmers
CANADA - Canadian agriculture producers and agribusiness operators who are considering the use of renewable energy sources in their business will soon have a new financing option thanks to a...

SK Firm to Start Construction of Biomass Plant
PHILIPPINES - A Korean energy company will start the construction of a 30-megawatt (MW) biomass power plant in Palawan next month.

NT to Cut Fossil Fuel by Fifty Per Cent by 2020
UK - The UK conservation organisation National Trust is to reduce use of fossil fuels by 50 per cent within the next 10 years.

Results of French Biomass Project REGIX in Lyon
FRANCE - The summarising and final conference of the French project REGIX (Unified references, methods and experiments to enable improved evaluation of potential agricultural and forestry lignocellulosic...

Spent Hen Renewable Energy Solution
AUSTRALIA - The Victorian Farmers Federation’s (VFF) Egg Group has entered into discussions with Bio-Cogen Pty Ltd to explore the opportunities in designing, building, owning and operating a...

EuroTier 2010 Expected to Inspire Strong Demand
GERMANY - DLG expects some 1,700 exhibitors from all over the globe – already more than 150 first-time exhibitors – in Hanover from 16 to 19 November 2010 for EuroTier 2010.