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Department of Energy Provides $40 Million for 4 DOE Bioenergy Research Centers
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry recently (7/17) announced $40 million in Department of Energy awards for the establishment of four DOE Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs), which will provide the scientific breakthroughs for a new generation of sustainable, cost-effective bioproducts and bioenergy. The centers each led by a DOE National Laboratory or a top university are designed to lay the ...
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$30 Million Juices Startup of Bioenergy Research Centers
WASHINGTON, DC, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - The startup of three new bioenergy research centers got a financial boost today with the U.S. Department of Energy's investment of nearly $30 million in end of fiscal year 2007 funds. The fiscal year ended September 30. The three centers selected by DOE this June are located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Madison, Wisconsin; and near Berkeley, California. They ...
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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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Berkeley Lab to build DOE advanced biofuels user facility
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been awarded nearly $18 million from the Recovery Act to build an advanced biofuels process development facility. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), this new facility will help expedite the commercialization of next generation biofuels by providing ...
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Fuels from biomass: New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments
They’ve been dubbed “grassoline” - second generation biofuels made from inedible plant material, including fast-growing weeds, agricultural waste, sawdust, etc. - and numerous scientific studies have shown them to be prime candidates for replacing gasoline to meet our transportation needs. However, before we can begin to roll down the highways on sustainable, carbon-neutral grassoline, numerous ...
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New members to join WBA!
NEW Members: Herz Energietechnik GmbH Energie Steiermark AG NEW Silver Sponsor and WBA member: Agrana Group Click Here to see our full list of members. About Agrana Group. AGRANA is an internationally oriented Austrian company which adds value to agricultural commodities to produce a wide range of industrial products for the processing sector. With around 8,500 personnel based at 56 ...
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Five final candidates for the World Bioenergy Award 2014
The five final candidates to the World Bioenergy Award 2014 are now chosen. One of them will be announced as the winner on June 3 at the opening session of World Bioenergy 2014 in Jönköping, Sweden. This is the third time that the World Bioenergy Award is presented. “These candidates really represents, the aim of the World Bioenergy Award, to recognize an individual who has made ...
By Elmia AB
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Berkeley lab news release:microbes produce fuels directly from biomass
A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass. Deploying the tools of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers engineered a strain of /Escherichia coli/ (/E. coli/) bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals derived from fatty acids. ...
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Microbes produce fuels directly from biomass
A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass. Deploying the tools of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers engineered a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals derived from fatty acids. “The ...
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NREL researchers use imaging technologies to solve puzzle of plant architecture
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) combined different microscopic imaging methods to gain a greater understanding of the relationships between biomass cell wall structure and enzyme digestibility, a breakthrough that could lead to optimizing sugar yields and lowering the costs of making biofuels. ...
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New Global Alliance calls for 100 Percent Renewable Energy
A newly established global alliance of civil society organizations, academics, business associations and policy makers has called upon national legislators to commit to 100 percent renewable energy in the power, heating&cooling and transportation sector. A newly established global alliance of civil society organizations, academics, business associations and policy makers has called upon ...
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China Everbright secures 18th waste-to-energy contract in Shandong province
Hong-Kong based China Everbright International has secured another contract for a waste-to-energy project in Shandong province, China. This is the company’s 18th waste-to-energy project in Shandong province. The company said that the Qihe project will be developed and constructed on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) model for a concession period of 30 years. The waste-to-energy project, ...
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Woodchip biomass and gas centre heats University of Northampton
A new biomass centre had been opened at the University of Northampton. The facility uses woodchip biomass and gas to provide hot water and low carbon heating to buildings around the University’s Waterside campus. Renewable energy specialists Vital Energi worked closely with the University’s Project Management team to build the 1.5MW biomass powered energy centre. It will work as ...
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Bioenergy Insight Conference 2017: Q&A session with Future Biogas’ John Scott-Kerr
The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The debut ...
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Cenex announces involvement in UK’s ‘largest’ trial of biomethane lorries
Cenex, the UK’s ‘first’ centre of excellence for low carbon technologies, has announced its involvement in the UK’s largest trial of biomethane fuelled lorries. The ‘Dedicated to Gas’ trial will see large fleet operators including Kuehne + Nagel, Wincanton, ASDA, Brit European, Howard Tenens and Great Bear, trial the effectiveness of 81 dedicated gas-powered ...
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Bioenergy Insight 2017: Q&A session with FutureMetrics’ William Strauss
The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The debut event ...
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Investors anticipating `dramatic improvement` in waste-to-energy innovation
Investors are expecting more renewable energy to be produced from waste management centres and landfill sites over the next five years, according to new research. Renewable Energy Waste Solutions (REWS), a new renewable energy company, found 72% of institutional investors and IFAs expect that over the next five years recycling and waste management centres will increasingly look to generate ...
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Enviva Partners anticipates strong Q4 as it unveils Q2 results
Wood pellet giant Enviva has reported strong quarter two results for the period ended 30 June, 2017. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) improved to $24.5 million (€20.75 million) for the second quarter of 2017, a 14.8% increase compared to the corresponding period in 2016. The increase in adjusted EBITDA was driven by increased product sales ...
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Bioenergy and biofuels help Helsinki airport go carbon neutral
Helsinki airport has been awarded the international Airport Carbon Accreditation certificate (ACA) to verify its carbon neutrality. “The ACA certificate awarded to Helsinki Airport is an important milestone in the implementation of Finavia’s accelerated climate programme at our airports. Our climate programme comprises a number of different measures, but Helsinki Airport plays a ...
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EnviTec breaks ground on Philippines biogas plant
A ground-breaking ceremony has been carried out for EnviTec’s first biogas project in the Philippines. The German biogas specialist, headquartered in Lower Saxony, will construct a 1.2 MW biogas plant in Candelaria, Quezon province. “In addition to this project under construction we are planning to develop and replicate more projects to help the local farmers address the chicken ...
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