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BP prepares output of new biofuels - algae diesel and butanol - starting in 2010

BP could become the first major energy company to start commercial scale production of cellulosic ethanol in 2010 if all goes according to plan. BP has been partnering with Verenium Corporation to commercialize the latter company's process for breaking down cellulose into sugars. Verenium has been running a demonstration plant in Louisiana that can produce 1.4 million gallons of ethanol annually. The Verenium process relies on enzymes to break down the cellulose, allowing it to be converted to alcohol, and the company claims almost complete ... Read more →

Shell station starts selling E10 in Ottawa using wheat straw ethanol Xavier Navarro

A Shell station near Ottawa, Canada is leading the way in offering cellulosic ethanol at the pump. While many companies, including some in Canada, are working on making the biofuel, not many have ...

Coskata's cellulosic ethanol road show hits Thailand, China, Australia Sebastian Blanco

Representatives from one of the GM-backed cellulosic ethanol concerns, Coskata, have been visiting the Asia-Pacific region recently to tout their anything-into-ethanol technology. In Thailand, they ...

Shell and Codexis expanding cellulosic ethanol development Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Mascoma pilot plant starts generating cellulosic ethanol Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

BP starts up celullosic ethanol joint venture with $45m, pays $161m fine for Clean Air Act violations 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

BP goes on the offensive and plays defense in two news stories yesterday. First, we learn that BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to pay $161 million for "pollution controls, enhanced maintenance and monitoring, and improved internal management practices" because of Clean Air Act violations ...

What is cellulosic ethanol and how does it fit with green cars? 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 than gasoline, and that South East Asian rainforests are suffering for biofuels, to name just three. The ...

Cellulosic ethanol could get a boost from a sea grub 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

As we know, breaking down long-chain cellulose molecules into individual sugar molecules is problematic on an industrial scale. In nature, of course, this happens all the time thanks to little critters like the Limnoria Quadripunctata, or four spotted gribble. The gribble or sea grub, like numerous ...

Verenium to build its first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol plant 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Verenium Corporation has been awarded a $7 million grant from the state of Florida and it will use the money to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant. The money comes through the state's Farm to Fuel initiative, something sure to enrage ethanol opponents. The plant, to be ...

April 15th is coming and the IRS has got your biofuel tax information ready 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

If you're the Ned Flanders type who just loves to get your taxes done early, we've got the post for you. The IRS has prepared a document on the changes to the tax code that biodiesel and cellulosic biofuel producers need to be aware of. If you know that ASTM D 6751 biodiesel standard was revised, ...

Ethanol turns out to be the worst type of renewable energy 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Maybe it's good that the US will not meet its self-imposed ethanol mandate for 2022. According to a new study by Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, ethanol - whether derived from corn or cellulose - is the worst form of renewable energy. Ethanol's ...

Georgia company quits cellulosic ethanol in favor of garbage methane 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The company formerly known as Xethanol Corp, is now known as Global Energy Holdings Group. As a renamed and reorganized company, it has dropped its focus on cellulosic ethanol in the face of falling ethanol prices. Instead, the company will take a more wide-ranging approach that includes tapping ...

Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - municipal waste ethanol from BlueFire 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference, Bluefire Ethanol's chairman and CEO, Arnold Klann, described his company's ethanol-making process as an "oddball" in the marketplace. The upside, though, is that the simplicity of the system - which uses a concentrated acid hydrolysis process - means they ...

Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - sitting down with Coskata's Wes Bolsen 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As promised, we got a chance to sit down with Wes Bolsen, the CMO and vice president at Coskata, during last week's Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference in Chicago. We wanted a little more information on the $1/gallon number for the Coskata process "cellulosic" ethanol (yes, Bolsen pointed out that ...

Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - updates from Coskata, Novozymes and SunOpta 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Thursday at the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference saw three of the cellulosic ethanol plant builders give updates on their strategy for converting biomass to fuel and where their companies are today. The speakers were Wes Bolsen, CMO and vp at Coskata, Christopher Veit, senior marketing manager, ...

Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - industry overview 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 hundred representatives from a lot of companies in ...

DOE will invest $26 million in Mascoma's cellulosic ethanol plant in Michigan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

During a conference call this afternoon, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm announced that the U.S. DOE will invest $26 million dollars in the state's first cellulosic ethanol production plant, being built by Mascoma in the Upper Peninsula. Granholm, speaking with a sore voice thanks to a cold, ...

Wal-Mart gives $369,000 for ethanol research in Arkansas 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Last month, the Wal-Mart Foundation gave $369,000 to the Arkansas Biosciences Institute for cellulosic ethanol research, specifically biomass-to-ethanol work. For comparison, Wal-Mart earned $351,139,000,000 last year. While most of the research done at ABI focuses on tobacco-related issues (the ...

Iogen ships first 26,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol to Shell 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 demonstration plant near the Canadian capitol and ...

GM Energy Systems director to join Mascoma advisory board 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Massachusetts-based Mascoma Corp. has added Dr. Andreas Lippert to its scientific advisory board. Mascoma, along with Coskata, is one of the two companies working on cellulosic ethanol technology that GM invested in earlier this year. Dr. Lippert is the Director of Global Energy Systems for GM and ...

DOE offers $4.4 million for university biofuel projects 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's not all li-ion battery tech that the federal government is givng support to these days; biofuels are getting some tax dollars as well. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that six biofuel projects at universities around the U.S. will be getting up to $4.4 million in funding. ...

Dartmouth researchers create new ethanol-producing bacteria 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Mascoma Corp is one of the two cellulosic ethanol companies that General Motors invested in earlier this year. Dr. Lee Lynd is one of Mascoma's co-founders and he and his collaborators at Dartmouth College have published a paper that gives some more insight into Mascoma's process. They have created ...

Ceres, Range Fuel testing switchgrass and sorghum to make ethanol 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Using switchgrass and sorghum, the bio-energy company Ceres will on day make cellulosic ethanol at a plant that is currently being built near Soperton, Georgia. Ceres will work with Range Fuels to make the biofuel over the next few years (this is a test after all, not a commercial endeavor just ...

Reducing GHG emissions by producing bioplastics alongside ethanol 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Aside from metals such as iron, steel and aluminum, perhaps the most common material in cars is plastic. Most of the plastic made today is derived from petroleum. Besides the raw materials used, a lot pf greenhouse gases are produced in the processing of plastics. Bio-materials have been a major ...

Mascoma cellulosic ethanol plant to be built in northern Michigan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 Jennifer Granholm announced a plant would be built ...

South Dakota lawmaker wants cellulosic ethanol to count towards RFS 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 ethanol feedstock), U.S. law does not count that ...

More on the GM-Mascoma cellulosic ethanol partnership 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 Mascoma to refine the process that they have developed ...

GM to invest in Mascoma cellulosic ethanol project 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 apparently requires fewer enzymes and other additives. ...

GM plans to partner up with another cellulosic ethanol maker 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

You probably remember that back in January of this year, General Motors announced that it was partnering up with Coskata to make cheap cellulosic ethanol using a process developed by Coskata which includes the use of microorganisms developed by Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma University. ...

DOE readies $86m in grants for three cellulosic ethanol plants 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Energy picked three cellulosic ethanol projects as recipients of up to $86m in federal funding for fiscal years 2008-2011. These "small-scale biorefinery projects" are located in Maine, Tennessee and Kentucky and are intended to bring "cost-competitive" ...

Most promising green technologies number three: cellulosic biofuel 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel are already available, so why would they show up on our list of future technologies? A one-word answer: cellulose. Currently, mass-produced ethanol is created by the fermentation of sugar and in the U.S. granulated corn is distilled to make alcohol and combined ...

Coskata not the only company claiming $1/gallon cellulosic ethanol 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 that process, other cellulosic ethanol companies ...

New York 2008: Saleen unveils E85 fueled S5S Raptor supercar concept 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the Saleen S5S Raptor A quarter century after Steve Saleen started building heavily modified high performance Ford Mustangs, the company that still bears his name, if not his direct involvement, unveiled a new concept car at the New York Auto Show. The S5S Raptor is the second ground-up ...

Bush thinks ethanol is increasing price of corn 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Although some have argued, even recently, that the drive to convert large amounts of farming acreage to ethanol production has had no effect on the prices people pay for food, that is not the memo our prez has received. I guess someone in Washington noticed the price of corn has shot up 250 percent ...

Autoblog Green Podcast #19 - Chicago Auto Show 2008 wrap-up 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Some people use airport layovers to sleep, read, or get a meal. Sam and Sebastian took the opportunity to record AutoblogGreen Podcast #19. While waiting for a plane to whisk them back home from the Chicago Auto Show, we recapped a few things we saw at the show. It wasn't the greenest show we've ...

Beetles killing Rocky Mountain trees, so why not use the wood to make ethanol? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There is a huge beetle problem in the Rocky Mountains. The official declaration of what the mountain pine beetles are doing is a "catastrophic" killing off of trees. While foresters and others try to get a handle on the situation, energy companies are thinking that all those fallen trees might make ...

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