bioenergy feedstock News
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DOE EERE Announces Funding for Bioenergy R&D
DOE’s EERE announced an FOA of up to $35 million for bioenergy feedstock technologies and algae R&D. This FOA supports the White House’s priority to advance the domestic bioeconomy and DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BTO) goal to improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts. ...
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Sustainable bioenergy feedstock production systems
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The Nature Conservancy and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Explore Responsible Sourcing for Bioenergy Feedstocks
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) launched a pilot project today to help bioenergy companies in the United States support responsible forest management through their procurement of woody biomass. The joint effort reflects the recognition by both organizations that the bioenergy industry provides new market opportunities for forest landowners and ...
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Fabrizio Barbaso, European commission, deputy Director General for energy and transport
Will give an opening speech about 'Promoting Biomass in the EU and the Role of Biomass in the Renewable Energy Directive'. After a short introduction of the RES-E Directive of 2001 and Biofuels Directive of 2003 and EU Biomass Action Plan of 2005, Barbaso is going to present the RES targets and sectors (including heating and cooling) and the national renewable energy action plans, including ...
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Sustainable Bioenergy And Bioproducts Challenge Area Announces $21 Million In Funding
On May 18, 2016, USDA announced $21 million in funding to support the development of regional systems for bioenergy and biobased products. The funding is provided through AFRI's Sustainable Bioenergy and Bioproducts (SBEBP) Challenge Area, an initiative of the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), and is available to applicants in the following priority areas. Regional ...
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EPA’s Office of Inspector General Orders New Ethanol Emissions Study
In a memorandum dated October 15, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) stated that it plans to begin preliminary research on the lifecycle impacts of EPA’s renewable fuel standard (RFS). The stated objectives from the memorandum are to determine whether EPA: (1) complied with the reporting requirements of laws authorizing the RFS; ...
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Lab receives an additional $40.3 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment act funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research in biofuels, fusion energy and the nation’s power grid and to ensure scientists have state-of-the-art equipment for their investigations. This new funding is in addition to ...
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EUBCE 2017: Round Table on Bioenergy for Sustainable Development
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the IEA Bioenergy agreement have jointly developed a brief on Bioenergy for Sustainable Development. The brief was discussed at a Round Table on Bioenergy for Sustainable Development as part of the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition in Stockholm on Tuesday, June 13. Among ...
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New rules could block biofuel’s alien invaders
Researchers in the US have warned those anxious to cut greenhouse emissions to make quite sure that the cure they choose will not turn out worse than the disease. They have developed a tool that should help to avoid the danger that efforts to address climate change could allow invasive plant species to spread where they are not wanted. Making fuel from plants avoids using fossil fuels − ...
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INEOS Bio Facility Receives Registrations from U.S. EPA for Production and Sale of Next Generation Cellulosic Ethanol
Today INEOS Bio announced that its joint-venture project, INEOS New Planet BioEnergy (INPB) has been granted Parts 79 and 80 registration from the U.S. EPA for the production and sale of advanced bioethanol from non-food waste materials. The notice of registration came after the successful completion of the construction of the Indian River BioEnergy Center (Center) and as the facility nears ...
By INEOS
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INEOS Bio Facility in Florida Begins Producing Renewable Power
Today INEOS Bio announced that its joint-venture project, INEOS New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), has reached another milestone and is now producing renewable power using INEOS Bio's feedstock flexible BioEnergy technology. The facility is producing renewable power for the facility and for export to the local community. At full production, the Center is expected to produce 8 million gallons of ...
By INEOS
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TINAs: Examining the potential of bioenergy, heat pumps, heat networks and heat storage
Low carbon technologies have been put under the spotlight with the publication of two in-depth reports into key areas of innovation. This new analysis, under the Technology Innovation Needs Assessments (TINAs), delves into bioenergy, heat pumps, heat networks and heat storage. It examines the commercial potential and key economic benefits of these technologies to the UK, alongside the key ...
By Carbon Trust
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Changing of the guard
Back in Washington city itself, the seats were filled at the Caribou Coffee shop a block west of the White House – that informal political center of the American system where meetings on the future of the country can be conveniently held without being recorded on the White House logs. But it was not the grand poobahs of policy that are holding court now, but the headhunters. The quiet ...
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Potential of renewable energy outlined - Report by the intergovernmental panel on climate change
Editor's Note:For years I've been asking myself why do we as a people (as in the government is us) invest major amounts in non-renewable, polluting, climate changing energy technologies while leaving table scraps for research and implementation of renewables? The answer, of course, is that unfortunately our government is not our government, not a government of the people, but a government of the ...
By MapCruzin
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