Archive for February, 2009
Panel: Proper Hedging Holds Rewards for Ethanol Producers
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Ethanol producers could limit their exposure to losses during the current economic downturn by hiring experienced risk managers, according to financial experts.
EPA Looks at Biofuel Life Cycle
Pipeline Operators Look to Ethanol Shipment for Growth
Pacific Ethanol Suspends Ethanol Ops at Burley, Stockton
Lenders Give Pacific Ethanol Month to Negotiate Loan Terms
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Ethanol Won’t Change Land Use
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Boosting corn-based ethanol production to 15 billion gallons by 2015 should not appreciably change how farmers use the land, according to a new study from the Renewable Fuels Association.
RFA’s Dinneen: Ethanol Industry Sound
Town Survives After Plant Shuts Down
UL Again Supports Use of E15 Blends in UL 87 Pumps
OriginOil, INL Cooperating to [...]
Town Survives After Plant Shuts Down
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
When bankrupt VeraSun Energy Corp. idled its ethanol plant in Ord., Neb., farmers and businesses wondered what would happen to the plant and its economic spin-offs. In the first of a two-part series, DTN reporter Todd Neeley looks at the mood of the community.
UL Again Supports Use of E15 Blends in [...]
UL Again Supports Use of E15 Blends in UL 87 Pumps
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Underwriters Laboratories has returned to its original position of supporting the use of UL 87 certified pumps to dispense ethanol blends of up to 15 percent, the product testing and certifying company announced in a news release Thursday.
OriginOil, INL Cooperating to Develop Algae-Based Oil
New Generation Biofuels Completes Biodiesel Plant in Md.
Nova [...]
OriginOil, INL Cooperating to Develop Algae-Based Oil
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
OriginOil, Inc., a Los Angeles, Calif.-based company developing an algae-based renewable oil, said in a news release that it has signed a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.
New Generation Biofuels Completes Biodiesel Plant in Md.
Nova Threatened with Stock Delisting on NYSE Alternext US
Enviro Groups Prefer [...]
Nova Threatened with Stock Delisting on NYSE Alternext US
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc., a producer and marketer of biodiesel, said in a news release that it received notice of noncompliance from NYSE Alternext US LLC, formerly the American Stock Exchange, with exchange rules for failing to hold an annual meeting of its stockholders during 2008.
Enviro Groups Prefer Gasoline
Nebraska Fuel Distributor [...]
“FUEL” - an interview with Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell
Submitted by BIOconversion Blog
In January 2008, Josh Tickell screened his new documentary “Fields of Fuel” at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. After a full year of more development, it has recently been released to a few theaters in the L.A.
I was invited to attend a [...]
“Fuel” is a Galvanizing Vehicle
Submitted by BIOconversion Blog
“Fuel” is a film for our time - and also winner of the 2008 Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary. It may help America wake up to the inexorable consequences of its fossil fuel addiction the way that “An Inconvenient Truth” did to global warming.
“Fuel” is the end product of an eleven [...]
Enviro Groups Prefer Gasoline
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Leaders from certain environmental groups say increased gasoline use is preferable to increased ethanol production. The Renewable Fuels Association responds to the criticism, saying the environmental groups are trying to throw cold water on the progress of America’s renewable fuels industry and relegate the country to increased foreign oil dependence.
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Nebraska Fuel Distributor Pleads Guilty in Fuel Scam
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced that Tim Kaup, the general manager of Sapp Bros distribution center, pleaded guilty to nine charges, including theft of deception, in Burt County Court after an August 2008 investigation showed he actively promoted the idea of selling ethanol-blended gasoline at unleaded prices to store owners.
Audit [...]
Valero Bids to Acquire VeraSun Assets
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Valero Energy has confirmed its bid for five Midwestern ethanol plants and a sixth under development, all of which are owned by bankrupt VeraSun Energy.
Mich. Board OKs Indemnity Fund Claims
ACE Asks UL to Explain E15 Pump Certification Reversal
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy to Start Production
VeraSun to Auction All Assets
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ACE Asks UL to Explain E15 Pump Certification Reversal
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
The American Coalition for Ethanol has written a letter to Underwriters Laboratories asking why they have reversed their original position that standard gasoline pumps can handle blends of ethanol up to 15 percent, the ethanol advocacy organization announced in a news release Friday.
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy to Start Production
VeraSun to Auction [...]
VeraSun Creditors Tap Indemnity Funds
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Some states with grain indemnity funds are seeing claims related to the VeraSun bankruptcy, and officials are trying to decide which of those claims to approve.
Corn Premiums Could Fade
Grassley Backs Higher Ethanol Blends
Scientist who Discovered ‘Q Microbe’ Receives Award
USDA, DOE Announce Funding for Biomass Research, Development Initiative
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Corn Premiums Could Fade
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
The extra cents paid for corn delivered to an ethanol plant may be in jeopardy.
Grassley Backs Higher Ethanol Blends
Scientist who Discovered ‘Q Microbe’ Receives Award
USDA, DOE Announce Funding for Biomass Research, Development Initiative
US Ethanol Production, Stocks Rise Slightly in November
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Grassley Backs Higher Ethanol Blends
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
Sen. Charles Grassley, a major backer of ethanol in Congress, said efforts to boost ethanol blends should be in the energy bill and not in a stimulus bill.Scientist who Discovered ‘Q Microbe’ Receives Award
USDA, DOE Announce Funding for Biomass Research, Development Initiative
US Ethanol Production, Stocks Rise Slightly in November
Propel Launches Low-Carbon [...]
