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

1. SAIC Awarded US $21M Bioenergy Contract
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... Golden Field Office to support The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Biomass Program. The agreement expires September 30, 2015 and has a ceiling value of $21 million. ...

2. European Biomass Gets €1.7M Boost
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Europe's sustainable forest management and wood based industries have reached new cooperation agreements. The groups plan to develop an initiative called "Sustainable Forest Management Providing Renewable ...

3. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... place to promote the development and deployment of these technologies along with modular nuclear plants and liquefied coal or biomass for transportation fuels, he says, “The U.S. could essentially be energy ...

4. Biofuel Options Expand as Science Taps New Sources
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... and enzymes and microbes that turn biomass to fuel. ...

5. British Airways to power aircraft from waste biomass
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

U.S.-based Solena Group is slated to build the CO2 neutral facility expected to convert 500,000 tons of waste biomass into 16 million gallons of green jet biofuel annually. ...

6. British Airways To Develop Waste-to-Fuel Facility
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... be derived from waste biomass and manufactured in a facility that can convert a variety of waste materials, destined for landfill, into aviation fuel. ...

7. Manchester scientists to look for lighter transport materials
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

UK university discovers a gene that could help increase biomass for fuel and receives £5.7M grant to help reduce environmental impact of transport. ...

8. Hydrogen is Not The Miracle Fuel of the Future
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... from natural gas, water or biomass, and all of these result in a net loss of energy. It is more efficient to use these fuels in their original forms. ...

9. Biomass Crop Assistance Program to Spur Production of Renewable Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which is designed to spur production of non-food biomass crops for renewable energy. ...

10. AdvanceBio Offers Bench Scale Equipment for Pretreatment of Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

AdvanceBio LLC this week announced that it is releasing a Bench Scale System for pre-treatment of biomass for next-generation cellulosic ethanol and renewable chemicals industries. ...

11. 25% US Renewable Electricity Standard Will Create 274,000 Jobs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... in some industries. Job growth in the wind, solar, biomass, waste-to-energy and hydropower industries would particularly benefit the Southeastern U.S. and manufacturing states whose Congressional delegations ...

12. DOE Releases US $20.5M for Community Renewable Energy Projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... of community-based renewable energy projects including biomass, wind and solar installations. ...

13. President Obama Announces Three Steps to Boost Biofuels
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... a proposed rule for biomass crop assistance; and a report that establishes a roadmap for biofuel growth. ...

14. 2010 French Tariffs Raise Price for Solar, Geothermal and Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

France has introduced new feed-in tariffs for 2010. These include substantially higher geothermal, biomass, and building integrated solar PV tariffs than in 2009. ...

15. China Everbright invests in 54 MW straw-to-energy project
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

The company launches its first biomass development project in China’s Anhui Province, with the Phase I expected to cost RMB 331M. ...

16. Biomass Co-firing Increase for CEZ
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

National utility for the Czech Republic ?EZ Group reports that it produced more than 327 GWh of electricity from biomass during 2009 through co-firing. ...

17. Rentech & ClearFuels Bio-Refinery Awarded US $23M from DOE
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Rentech Inc. and ClearFuels Technology Inc. on Monday announced today that their project to construct a biomass gasifier at Rentech's Energy Technology Center (RETC) in Denver, Colorado has been awarded ...

18. Secretary Chu Announces More Than $20.5 million for Community Renewable Energy Deployment Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... energy projects, such as biomass, wind, and solar installations. ...

19. US Renewable Energy Industry Needs the Heat in Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. biomass thermal industry is poised to offer significant carbon and financial savings for consumers. Biomass for thermal energy is up to 90% efficient; in contrast, using biomass for the production ...

20. World's Largest Pellet Factory Planned in U.S.
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

RWE Innogy is to build a factory to produce biomass pellets in the southern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 750,000 tonnes, making it the biggest ...

21. Sustainable Energy Fund Launches New Program to Acquire $20 million in Environmental Attributes
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... as solar, wind or biomass. ...

22. Syntec & EERC Developing Biomass-to-Butanol Production Technology
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. The core process utilizes Syntec's catalyst technology in conjunction with an upgrading process exclusively licensed from the EERC Foundation. ...

23. BTS makes plans to launch cleantech fund in India
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Zurich and Mumbai-based PE firm looks to raise up to $200M to invest in wind energy, biomass, hydropower, and energy efficiency. ...

24. Importing Solar Power with Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Every six hours the sun bathes the lands of the earth in as much energy as the world consumes in a year. If we could just find a way to collect and distribute that energy our energy problems would be ...

25. Laidlaw Files for Permit for 70-MW Biomass Plant
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... (MW) biomass-energy facility to be located at the former Fraser Papers pulp mill in Berlin, New Hampshire. ...

26. China takes E&Y's No. 2 spot for renewable investing
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Brazil and Japan's rise on the accounting firm’s indices is linked to new emissions goals and energy targets from wind, biomass and small hydro. ...

27. EERC Moving Cellulosic Biofuel Production Technology Toward Commercialization
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... developed at the EERC. Whole Energy is receiving global, exclusive licensing rights to EERC Foundation's technology, which converts biomass and other recycled material into liquid biofuels. ...

28. Inbicon signs deal for U.S. biomass refinery
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

DONG Energy subsidiary licenses technology to Great River Energy and Otaka Energy for a plant that could be more than 10 times the size of Inbicon's brand-new facility in Denmark.

29. A-Power & Amraas International Reach Biomass and Geothermal Deals
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. has signed agreements with Pakistan Amraas International Private Limited (Amraas) for the build out of two separate renewable energy projects in Pakistan.

30. DOE & USDA Select Projects For US $24M in Biomass R&D Grants
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy have selected to receive more than US $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. ...