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Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - industry overview

Oct 10th 2008 11:19AM - 1 Comment

If you get into a room with a lot of people who make up part of the cellulosic ethanol industry, things can get a little technical. This is the situation here in Chicago for the Platts 3rd Annual Cellulosic Ethanol and Biofuels conference. A few ...

Mascoma pilot plant starts generating cellulosic ethanol

Feb 26th 2009 3:52PM - 5 Comments

Mascoma Corporation's first pilot plant in Rome, New York has now begun to produce cellulosic ethanol. Mascoma is one of two cellulosic ethanol companies that got equity investments from General Motors in early 2008, the other being Coskata. The Rome ...

GM to invest in Mascoma cellulosic ethanol project

May 1st 2008 11:56AM - 2 Comments

General Motors today announced their second equity investment in a developer of cellulosic ethanol technology in recent months. The automaker is buying into Mascoma Corp. Mascoma has developed a single-step cellulose to ethanol process that ...

DOE: Cellulosic ethanol within 5 years

Sep 8th 2006 6:20PM - 0 Comments

According to the Des Moines Register, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said in a press briefing that commercial plants able to produce cellulosic ethanol should be in operation within five years. The Department of Energy currently estimates the ...

Renewable energy professor big on cellulosic ethanol

May 15th 2006 2:46PM - 1 Comment

Last week, ethanol was a big story on 60 Minutes. As a follow-up, the Energy Stock Blog has an interview with Professor Daniel Kammen, the founding director of The Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at Berkeley. On the ESB, Kammen says that ...

Mascoma cellulosic ethanol plant to be built in northern Michigan

Jun 29th 2008 10:33AM - 1 Comment

Nearly two months after the announcement by General Motors of its equity investment in Mascoma, the Massachusetts company has announced the location of its first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant. Mascoma CEO Bruce Jamerson and Michigan Governor ...

Mascoma Corp to build cellulosic ethanol plant in Michigan

Jul 20th 2007 3:49PM - 6 Comments

And now, what many of our readers have been waiting for: cellulosic ethanol. As can be seen from the comments on posts dealing with ethanol production, many people want to take food, specifically corn, out of our gas tanks and back into ourselves. A ...

Shell and Codexis expanding cellulosic ethanol development

Mar 16th 2009 5:09PM - 5 Comments

Codexis and Shell are expanding their collaboration on developing non-food based biofuels. Codexis develops what the company calls biocatalysts, the enzymes used to break down cellulose into simple sugar molecules. Codexis and Shell have had a ...

More on the GM-Mascoma cellulosic ethanol partnership

May 1st 2008 4:41PM - 0 Comments

Following this morning's announcement that GM was taking an equity stake in cellulosic ethanol developer Mascoma, the two companies held a conference call. Like the earlier Coskata investment, GM researchers will be working with scientists at ...

What is cellulosic ethanol and how does it fit with green cars?

Feb 19th 2009 1:57PM - 18 Comments

Click above for high-res gallery of the ethanol Hummer There is a lot of controversy surrounding biofuels. Various studies have shown that crop-based biofuels contribute to global warming more than they help prevent it, that ethanol is no better ...

Range Fuels breaks ground on America's 1st cellulosic ethanol plant

Nov 7th 2007 5:14PM - 5 Comments

Range Fuels' cellulosic ethanol plant, the first in America, broke ground Tuesday in Treutlen County, Georgia. Construction of the first 20 million-gallon-per-year phase is expected to be completed in 2008. Pictured, from the left, are U.S. ...

South Dakota lawmaker wants cellulosic ethanol to count towards RFS

May 8th 2008 8:09AM - 0 Comments

When is cellulosic ethanol not cellulosic ethanol? When it's grown on public land. Let us explain. Apparently, when cellulosic ethanol is made from biomass grown on public lands (or on private lands but is not intentionally grown and managed as ...

Iogen ships first 26,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol to Shell

Sep 30th 2008 3:56PM - 1 Comment

Canadian cellulosic ethanol producer Iogen has shipped the first 26,000 gallons of an order for Royal Dutch Shell. Iogen recently announced a deal with Shell that would see them cooperate on commercializing cellulosic ethanol production. Iogen has a ...

Coskata not the only company claiming $1/gallon cellulosic ethanol

Mar 28th 2008 7:01PM - 3 Comments

Should Coskata be worried? GM's first cellulosic ethanol partner made some waves in January with it's announcement that it can make the biofuel from all sorts of waste products for less than $1 a gallon. While we're still waiting for the fruits of ...

Is it time? POET wants to bring cellulosic ethanol plant to Iowa

Oct 7th 2007 12:18PM - 1 Comment

The Mascoma Corporation has already announced that it wants to be the first to have a cellulosic ethanol plant up and running, with three projects announced in Tennessee, New York state and Michigan. The ethanol company POET (formerly Broin) is not ...

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