Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Biomass Heat is Not Coal
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Recent rules for proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions from boilers could have the unfortunate effect of killing the sustainable and rapidly growing industry of biomass ...

2. Biomass in Microturbines
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

As concerns about global climate change increase, many of the world's governments are mandating increasing utilization of biomass in their energy portfolio. Many utilities are following suit, constructing ...

3. POET, farmers kick off commercial biomass harvest for Project LIBERTY cellulosic ethanol
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Farmers and POET today celebrated the upcoming collection and delivery of 56,000 tons of baled corn cobs and light stover in the first commercial harvest for Project LIBERTY.

4. Shelton Biomass Power Plant Secures Supply Agreement
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Adage, a biopower joint venture between Areva and Duke Energy, announced last week that it signed a long-term biomass fuel supply agreement with Green Diamond Resource Company, who owns and manages timberland ...

5. Malaysia's 2011 Proposed Solar, Biomass, Biogas, & Hydro Tariffs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

In a presentation on July 29th, 2010, Ahmad Hadri Haris, the chief technical advisor to Malaysia's Minister of Energy, announced proposed feed-in tariffs for solar photovoltaics (PV), biomass, biogas, ...

6. Forest Concepts Gets $1M for R&D on Biomass Technology
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Forest Concepts LLC, a research and development company that studies forest products and wood-based raw materials just received 1 million from the U.S. government to continue its research on second-generation ...

7. Detroit Edison Buying 20 MW of Biomass Energy
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Michigan utility Detroit Edison got the go-ahead for two electricity contracts totaling 20 MW sourced from landfill gas and wood waste. The Michigan Public Service Commission approved the contacts ...

8. POET conducts biomass harvest research in Texas
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET this week will begin harvest research in corn fields near Navasota, Texas to learn more about biomass collection for cellulosic ethanol production. ...

9. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

10. Community-Centric Approach to Biomass Energy Necessary
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A biomass energy approach that stresses multiple, smaller generation plants scaled to make use of local fuel supplies harvested sustainably would make biomass projects more appealing to communities and ...

11. Trends in Biomass: Opportunities for Global Equipment Suppliers in Asia
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Over the last 10 years, there has been a considerable change in biomass power generation in Asia. Indeed, owing to the scarcity and cost of biomass fuel, most power plants are in fact designed for multi-fuel ...

12. DOE Funds Biomass Pretreatment Project
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a contract to a Cincinnati company, AdvaceBio Systems, for research and development of a pretreatment reactor system of biomass feedstocks. The National Renewable ...

13. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

14. Biomass Advancing in the Northeast
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Gestamp Biomass, a division of Gestamp Renewables with worldwide operations, and New Hampshire-based Clean Power Development announced that they plan to bring biomass energy projects to the Northeast region ...

15. BTEC Commends Legislators for Introduction of Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) extends its praise to Sens. Al Franken (D-MN.) and Kit Bond (R-MO.) and Reps. Betty McCollum (D-MN.), Jay Inslee (D-WA.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) for introducing ...

16. Algae Biomass Summit Announces Preliminary Agenda
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The 2010 Algae Biomass Summit, the official conference of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) and the algae industry's premier global conference, today released the event's newly-expanded agenda featuring ...

17. Clean Power Development & Gestamp To Develop Bioenergy Projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Gestamp Biomass and Clean Power Development LLC announced the signing of an agreement under which they will work together to develop, finance and operate biomass energy projects across the Northeast region ...

18. DOE Announces $30 Million for Small Business Clean Energy Technologies
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has announced $30 million in Recovery Act and FY 2010 funds to help small businesses commercialize promising new technologies. Applications are being accepted in the technology areas of biomass, ...

19. EPA Proposes Percentages for 2011 Renewable Fuel Standards
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the renewable fuel standard (RSF) for 2011 under the agency's RFS2 program. The RSF covers biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuels, cellulosic ...

20. M&As span from vertical farming to biomass, solar
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Demand-side management company sets IPO pricing and the cleantech sector raises more than $132 from VC and PE globally, among 39 deals we spotted in the last seven days.

21. USDA Awards $4.2 Million in Woody Biomass Utilization Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded more than $4.2 million in grants to small businesses and community groups for renewable energy projects. The projects, which will use biomass from ...

22. Cast Your Vote for Thermal Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

23. Portrait of a Transformative Technology: Qteros and its Q Microbe
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... is a natural consolidated bioprocessor, expresses requisite enzymes for the extraction of fermentable sugars from biomass, and co-ferments all the C5 and C6 sugars into ethanol. ...

24. Uncertainties continue within cleantech public markets
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Solyndra drops IPO plans, plus Total and Amyris team on biomass fuels and chemicals, among 34 deals we spotted in the past seven days. ...

25. BTEC: Massachusetts Study Shows Benefits of Biomass Thermal
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study, a report that was recently released and commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER), affirms the environmental benefits ...

26. Biomass Power Association Responds to Report
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Bob Cleaves, president and CEO of Biomass Power Association (BPA), via teleconference addressed a report released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) on biomass fuels that BPA described as misleading. ...

27. Massachusetts Study Recognizes Significant Benefits of Biomass Thermal Energy
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

"Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study", a recently released report commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER) and authored by the Manomet Center for Conservation ...

28. Bioenergy Associations Join Call for Shift in Energy Policy and Investment in Clean Energy Technologies
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The American Biogas Council (ABC) and the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) issued a statement supporting the President Obama's recent remarks and the American Energy Innovation Council's call to ...

29. Siemens Tests PetroAlgae's Biomass Fuel
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Siemens Energy this week said that it has successfully completed the first firing of PetroAlgae Inc.'s biocrude fuel, a plant-based, micro-crop biomass material that is processed into a solid residue. ...

30. RenewableEnergyWorld.com Announces New Association Partnership with the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC)
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)