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Primus Green Energy Joins NEWBio Consortium as Industry Collaborator
Primus Green Energy, a New Jersey alternative energy company based in Hillsborough, New Jersey, has signed on to the Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium (NEWBio) as an industry collaborator. The company will provide technical insight to the group as it develops perennial feedstock production systems and supply chains for biomass feedstocks.The consortium is led by Penn State's College ...
By 3BL Media
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MEPs add biofuel criteria to EU fuel quality law
The European parliament's environment committee voted on Tuesday to add minimum sustainability criteria for biofuels to a draft revision of the EU fuel quality directive. The European commission proposed the revision in January, and included a requirement on fuel suppliers to cut life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from road transport fuels by 10 per cent by 2020 (EED 31/01/07). The committee ...
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N-Viro International YouTube Video Highlights N-Viro Fuel™ Mobile Energy System- The Biomass Energy Alternative Resource to Fuel Power Plants
N-Viro International Corporation (OTCQB-NVIC) has released a YouTube video essay of the N-Viro Fuel™ Mobile Energy System at the Allegheny Clarion Valley industrial complex in Western Pennsylvania. The pre-recorded YouTube video tour hosted by CEO and President, Timothy R. Kasmoch, highlights the process from raw biomass to the N-Viro Fuel™ final product. Join us online at N-Viro ...
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N-Viro International to Discuss Strategy for Growth
N-Viro International Corporation (OTCQB: NVIC) has been selected to present at the fifth annual Modern Energy Forum, held September 13-15, 2011 at the Ritz-Carlton in Denver, Colorado. "The 2011 Modern Energy Forum promises to be one of the outstanding conference experiences of the year," said Michele Ashby, MINE LLC CEO. "We're very excited about this year's top-notch slate of presenting ...
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Colorado Center For Biorefining and Biofuels Funds 10 Projects
BOULDER, Colorado, November 1, 2007 (ENS) - A joint center of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, the Colorado School of Mines, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, and industry has announced $500,000 in grants to 10 teams pursuing renewable energy research. The projects range from the solar conversion of plant material for fuels to genetic crop ...
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Biomass Thermal Energy Council Praises Congressional Biomass Caucus Formation, Calls for Additional House Members
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today applauded the formation of the first Congressional Biomass Caucus. Led by Representatives Charlie Bass (R-NH2) and Peter Welch (D-VT), this coalition will seek to support the development of biomass and elevate the renewable resource’s profile in Congress. “We strongly support the creation of the Biomass Caucus and commend the ...
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NRC drives strategy to commercialize biofuel from algae
Canada’s National Research Council is collaborating with industrial partners to commercialize technologies for algae cultivation, biomass handling, oil extraction and fuel ...
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CBC Industrias Pesadas, MHI Subsidiary in Brazil, Receives Order for Biomass-fired Boiler from Country`s Largest Pulp Manufacturer
-- Contribution to Utilization of Renewable Energy -- Tokyo, June 13, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - CBC Industrias Pesadas S.A. (CBC), a wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received a turnkey order for a high-capacity, high-performance biomass-fired boiler from Suzano Papel e Celulose, the largest pulp maker in Brazil. The boiler will be installed at ...
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Newest BTEC Webinar Explores Federal Biomass Energy Legislation, Policy
WASHINGTON, January 14 - The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today announced the third webinar in its series of free educational webinars on key topics for the biomass thermal community. “Biomass Energy - A Policy Outlook: Programs, Legislation and the new Congress,” will be held January 27, 2011 at 1PM ET. This event is made possible with funding from the USDA Forest Service's Wood ...
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BTEC Presents New Webinar on Residential Biomass Heating
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 BTEC Presents New Webinar on Residential Biomass Heating Second in the free webinar series will be held November 4 at 3PM ET WASHINGTON, October 14 - The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today announced the second webinar in its series of free educational webinars on topics important to the biomass thermal industry. “Green Heat for Homes: ...
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Enviva LP Announces Wood Pellet Facility in Virginia
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enviva LP ("Enviva"), a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, today announced that it is planning to build a 454,000 metric ton wood pellet manufacturing facility in Courtland, Va., which could begin operations as early as the first half of 2013. The project is contingent on the property where the ...
By Enviva LP
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NH Adopts Full Thermal Incentive for Renewable Portfolio Standard
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today applauded New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and the state's Senate and House of Representatives for their passage of legislation (NH Senate Bill 218), a bill that adds thermal renewable energy to the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS). RPS programs have been adopted in some 29 states and the District of Columbia to provide incentives to ...
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Biomass Combustion Research
The use of alternative combustion fuels that provide a renewable source of energy is a major area of research and investment. Sources of biomass fuels include virgin wood, energy crops, agricultural residues, food waste and industrial waste. Controlling the combustion process of any new fuel and keeping track of the biomass fuel emissions of combustion by-products is important to users of these ...
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Researchers turn biomass into energy
US scientists say they are testing the viability of converting leafy or woody biomass into a commercially feasible fuel product. University of Nevada-Reno Associate Professors Charles Coronella and Victor Vasquez are working on the pretreatment portion of the biomass conversion process as part of a $4.6 million study funded by the Gas Technology Institute.'Biomass produces a dirty gas if it's not ...
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Newly Introduced Bill Encourages Low-Carbon Fuel Production
On November 18, 2020, U.S. Representatives Cheri Bustos (D-IL) and Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) introduced a bipartisan, bicameral legislation that aims to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and encourage low-carbon fuel production. Titled “The Streamlining Advanced Biofuels Registration Act,” this bill would eliminate existing barriers for biofuels plants to increase production of ...
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Development Prospect Of Biomass Pellet Fuel Biomass Pellet Machine Supplier
The biomass pellet fuel is mainly used agricultural and forestry waste as raw materials, through crushing, mixing, extrusion, drying, and other processes, into a variety of molding (such as block, pellet, etc.), can directly burn, is a new clean fuel. Compared with liquid oil fuel, biomass pellet fuel is easy to carry and safe. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a biomass pellet fuel with a ...
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Pennslyvania increases investment in clean fuels
Much is happening in Pennsylvania on the clean energy front. Last week, legislators passed the Alternative Energy Investment Act (AEIA), which provides over US$500 million of funding for alternative and clean energy and energy conservation projects. In addition to this, new biofuels legislation includes a mandate for sales of biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol blends and sets aside up to US$5 ...
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Energy Commission Awards Nearly $4 Million to Support Early-Stage Clean Energy Projects
The California Energy Commission recently (8/14) awarded $3.75 million to 25 early-stage, innovative projects as part of a portfolio of research investments that will help achieve the state’s climate and clean energy goals.The Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge program, which drives clean energy innovation and entrepreneurship, funds the California Sustainable Energy ...
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The 18th European biomass conference and exhibition is focusing on strategies to combat climate change and offers the perfect business platform for bioenergy technology & application
The 18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition will take place in Lyon, France, from 3 to 7 May 2010. The Conference subjects cover the entire range of bioenergy issues: Resource availability, conversion technologies, demonstration projects, integration in the energy system, environmental impact and market deployment as well as the need for policy actions. The Conference will be chaired by ...
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Breakthrough in quest to turn seaweed into biofuels
Brown seaweed's potential as a vast source of biofuels has been highlighted with the announcement that scientists have found a way of converting all its major sugars into ethanol. A team reported in Science today (19 January) that it has engineered a microbe that will convert the sugars to ethanol, overturning one of the main obstacles to making the use of brown macroalgae, or seaweed, as a ...
By SciDev.Net
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