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Switchgrass as Ideal Biofuel Feedstock?

by Derek Mead (CleanTechMedia)  Can biofuel be economically coaxed from a modest plant? ...A new research review published today(December 13, 2011)  in the journal GCB Bioenergy states that switchgrass is indeed viable as a cellulosic feedstock, as has been previously suggested, and that

December 14, 2011 Read Full Article

E. Coli Bacteria Engineered to Eat Switchgrass and Make Transportation Fuels

by Lynn Yarris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) Researchers Reach Milestone on the Road to Biofuels A milestone has been reached on the road to developing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels with a

December 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Corn Gene Boosts Biofuels from Switchgrass

(Science Daily)  ...Unlike the starch sugars in grains, the complex polysaccharides in the cellulose of plant cell walls are locked within a tough woody material called lignin. For advanced biofuels to be economically competitive, scientists must find inexpensive ways to

November 21, 2011 Read Full Article

DuPont’s Cellulosic Plans

by Melody Bomgardne (Central Science/Cleantech Chemistry)  DuPont has been digesting its acquisition of Danisco for a while now, and has sent out an update about what used to be called DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol – now shortened, as you might

November 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Switchgrass Ethanol Research Looks to Yield Big Benefits

by Larry Dreiling  (High Plains MidWest Ag Journal)  Construction has begun in Hugoton, Kan., on the nation's first commercial scale biomass fuel refinery. Abengoa Bioenergy's new, 23 million-gallon annual throughput refinery will take biomass, mainly switchgrass, and turn it into ethanol. One

November 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels Feedstocks – Who’s Got Game?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  As POET lands a record biomass harvest in prep for a 2013 cellulosic ethanol launch, the Digest looks at stover, jatropha, miscanthus, switchgrass, MSW, wood and animal residue.  Are costs going down, and capacity going

November 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Genome-scale Network of Rice Genes to Speed the Development of Biofuel Crops

(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  Joint BioEnergy Institute Researchers Create RiceNet for Predicting Genetic Functions in Rice The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed by an international team of

November 04, 2011 Read Full Article

“Are You Any Less Worried about Energy Security Today than You Were 4 Years Ago?” Asks BP

by Bill Lundberg (Biofuels Digest)  Should the Renewable Fuel Standard be scrapped, or revised? BP North America chief Susan Ellerbusch makes the case for “No”. In Chicago, BP Biofuels North America president Susan Ellerbusch, in addressing congressional attempts to re-write the

November 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Study Estimates Biorefinery's Economic Impact

by Larisa Brass  (KnoxvilleBiz.com)  Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Energy may not have announced definitive plans for siting a commercial biofuels plant in the state, but University of Tennessee researcher Edward Yu has some suggestions. As part of a study on the local

October 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Avec le Projet Futurol, la France Mise sur les Biocarburants de Seconde Génération

(Le Monde)  Dans de vastes hangars sont stockés des bottes de paille, des tiges de miscanthus (sorte de roseau parfois appelé "herbe à éléphant"), des rondins de saule et de peuplier. D'autres bâtiments sont réservés aux copeaux et résidus de

October 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Mutant Maize Genes May Help Harness Switch Grass for Biofuels

by Alex Morales (Bloomberg)  Mutant maize genes can be inserted into switch grasses to increase their viability as a biofuel crop, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Transferring the so-called CG1 corn gene into switch

October 11, 2011 Read Full Article

UT Center for Renewable Carbon Named as Lead Institution for $15 Million USDA Grant

(University of Tennessee)  Center to coordinate woody biomass production and utilization studies The Center for Renewable Carbon, a program of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has been named by the USDA as a recipient of one of five coordinated

September 30, 2011 Read Full Article

The (Next) Next-Gen Cellulosic Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Discussions about the 2016-2019 cellulosic biofuels fleet of manufacturing sites – what they will look like, and how they will change – are less common. Yet the second generation is where the big gallonage will

September 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Major Investments to Spur Innovation and Job Creation in Research, Development and Production of Next Generation Biofuels

(US Department of Agriculture)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced five major agricultural research projects today aimed at developing regional, renewable energy markets, generating rural jobs, and decreasing America's dependence on foreign oil. Altogether, the five-year program will deliver more than

September 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Solyndra Flop Fails to Slow Obama Team’s $9.2 Billion Push for Wind, Solar

by Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg)  The Obama administration, defying congressional Republicans after the failure of solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, is working to award as much as $9.2 billion in government financing to renewable energy companies before a Sept. 30 deadline. ...Abengoa

September 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Mascoma’s IPO: The 10-Minute Version

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Intrigued by cellulosic ethanol and a new product called MGT, in Mascoma’s IPO? ...Mascoma Corporation announced that it has filed an S-1 registration statement relating to a proposed $100 million initial public offering. The number of

September 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Opening Plenary – "Industry Perspectives on Bioenergy": The Future Biobased Economy

by Matt Carr (Biotechnology Industry Organization). Matt Carr, Managing Director or BIO notes that in 2011, biofuels comprise about 10% of the US transportation fuel market; in 2025, biofuels will consist of around 25% of that market.  Renewable chemicals and

September 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Pretreatment, Proper Harvest Time Boost Ethanol from Switchgrass

by Brian Wallheimer  (Purdue University)  Adding a pretreatment step would allow producers to get more ethanol from switchgrass harvested in the fall, according to a Purdue University study. Michael Ladisch, a distinguished professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Youngmi Kim,

September 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Vonore Biomass Plant Could Go Commercial as Switchgrass Gains Ground

by Ed Marcum (KnoxNews.com)  The University of Tennessee showed off its biofuel facilities here Tuesday to top state officials as the school works to increase efficiencies so that the experimental project can become a commercial operation. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen.

August 31, 2011 Read Full Article

China’s Vision for Renewable Energy: The Status of Bioenergy and Bioproduct Research and Commercialization

Elizabeth R. Nesbitt, Paul Thiers, Johnway Gao, Sharon Shoemaker, Manuel Garcia-Perez, Julie Carrier, Joy Doran-Peterson, John Morgan, Guangyi Wang, Pierre Christian Wensel, Shulin Chen  (Journal of International Commerce and Economics)  The Chinese government is vigorously promoting commercialization of renewable energy and bioproducts, given environmental issues plus food, energy, and national security concerns,

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Testing the Water for Bioenergy Crops

by Liz Ahlberg (University of Illinois)   Many energy researchers and environmental advocates are excited about the prospect of gaining more efficient large-scale biofuel production by using large grasses like miscanthus or switchgrass rather than corn. They have investigated yields,

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

University of Illinois Students Receive BP Grant to Study Biomass Engineering Properties

(Biofuels Journal)  Five undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $5,000 grant from British Petroleum to research the engineering properties of biomass. The students wrote the grant to develop a virtual database that will tell end users the properties

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

A Quick Way to Grade Grasses for Ethanol Yields

by Don Comis (US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service)  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers have developed an inexpensive way to grade the ethanol potential of perennial grasses at the biorefinery's loading dock. That future has been made possible by

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Increase in Demand from India, China to Drive up Food Prices: Obama

(The Economic Times of India)  US President Barack Obama today highlighted the need to develop biofuels out of things that do not involve fuel chain, arguing that increase in demand from India and China would drive up the food prices. "As

August 18, 2011 Read Full Article

BCAP Helps Abengoa Solve Chicken-and-Egg Feedstock Issue

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  With help from the USDA Biomass Crop Assistance Program, Abengoa is on its way to establishing a significantly sized switchgrass plantation in parts of Kansas and Oklahoma surrounding the site of the company’s proposed

August 15, 2011 Read Full Article

U.Va. Researchers Find High Energy Output From Algae-Based Fuel, But 'No Silver Bullet'

by Zak Richards (University of Virginia)  Algae-based fuel is one of many options among the array of possible future energy sources. New University of Virginia research shows that while algae-based transportation fuels produce high energy output with minimal land use,

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Missouri University Professor Helps to Plant Seeds for an Advanced Biofuel Economy

by Megan Cassidy  (Columbia Missourian)  Shibu Jose and his team believe that today’s soggy river bottoms could be untapped grounds for the largest advanced biofuel economy in the nation. Jose, director for MU’s Center for Agroforestry, is proposing to cultivate and harvest

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Awards $45 Million to Four New BCAP Projects

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the creation of four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) project areas in six states to expand the availability of non-food crops to be used in the manufacturing of

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Farms of the Future: Bio-oil, Biochar from Biomass

by Lance Nixon (Renewable Energy World)  Those pyrolysis plants would pass that crude “bio-oil” on to refineries elsewhere to be made into drop-in fuels and industrial chemicals; they would capture and use for their own energy needs a byproduct called

July 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Energy Crops Could Be Answer to Increased Insecticide Use

by Luke Geiver (Biorefining Magazine)  The link between increased insecticide use and landscape simplification has now been documented by a team of researchers from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. ...But, while the research showed the upwardly trending use of insecticides

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Switch from Corn to Grass Would Raise Ethanol Output, Cut Emissions

(EurekAlert!/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  Growing perennial grasses on the least productive farmland now used for corn ethanol production in the U.S. would result in higher overall corn yields, more ethanol output per acre and better groundwater quality, researchers report

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

How Do Farmers Choose Bioenergy Crops?

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  Carolyn Hoagland was recently awarded the Volkswagen Distinguished Scholar for her work in learning about how farmers choose to grow bioenergy crops. Hoagland, an adult student, is an environmental science major at the University of Tennessee at

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Southeast US Offers Huge Energy Crop Potential

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The U.S. Southeast is ripe for energy crop development, according to several panelists who spoke during a session devoted to next-generation feedstock strategies June 28 at the International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo in

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Accellerase® TRIO Helps Reduce Ethanol Production Costs, Lowers Dosage And Offers Environmental Benefits

(Genencor)  Genencor today (June 22, 2011) announced a product advancement, Accellerase® TRIO. This new product will enable biofuel producers to more cost-effectively manufacture cellulosic ethanol from a wide range of renewable nonfood feedstocks such as switchgrass, wheat straw and corn

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Are Creating a Big Buzz in Military

by Renee Schoof (McClatchy Newspapers/Seattle Times)  Maj. Aaron Jelinek of the Air Force Thunderbirds flies his F-16 upside down, rolls it, thunders past his teammates in breathtaking close charges and joins five other fighter jets in precision formation. And for the

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Chain, Chain, Chain – Chain of Fuels: Birth of a Global Supply Chain for Biomass

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Mendel CEO Neal Gutterson talks about miscanthus, and the role of the power sector as the driver of a global supply chain for biomass. ...The company’s IP lies in its understanding of a large class of

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Ceres Files $100M IPO – The Complete Digest Analysis

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...In California, energy crop breeder Ceres has filed for a $100 million IPO on Nasdaq, with Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital as underwriters. ...From the S-1: “We are an agricultural biotechnology company selling seeds to produce renewable

May 25, 2011 Read Full Article

EdeniQ Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony in California

by Brian Sims (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  State, county and city dignitaries were on hand to witness the official groundbreaking last week of EdeniQ Inc.’s Corn-to-Cellulosic Migration pilot plant at EdeniQ’s headquarters in Visalia, Calif. EdeniQ had been optimizing its biomass conversion

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Chief Touts Ethanol's Benefits

by Andy Humbles (The Tennessean)  He lauds TN's key role in development of rising biofuel ...U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in Nashville on Monday, speaking at a Thorntons gas station in West Nashville on the advantages of ethanol and the

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Agrivida Teaches Biofuel Crops to Self-Destruct

by Martin LaMonica (CNET)  ... Agrivida is using genetic engineering and other techniques from the biotech industry to create proteins with specific traits designed for rapid, and cheaper, biofuel production from sorghum, switchgrass, and corn stover, the residual material from corn harvesting. Company

May 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Iowa State's Role in the Future of Biofuels

by Dan Piller (Des Moines Register)  Prototypes of the biofuels refinery of the future sit in a 19,000-square-foot complex on the Iowa State Research Farm west of Ames. Two experimental plants, whose network of pipes and containers looks to the lay

May 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Logos and EdeniQ Receive Department of Energy Funding for Corn-to-Cellulosic Pilot Biorefinery

(Logos Technologies)  DOE commits full $20.5 million to retrofit and build pilot plant in Visalia, CA Logos Technologies®, Inc. and EdeniQ, Inc., announced U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) approval to fully fund $20.5 million in federal cost share under DOE’s Integrated

May 06, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA and DOE Award Biomass Research and Development Grants to Reduce America's Reliance on Imported Oil

Projects will help develop sustainable, renewable biofuels in the U.S. As part of the Obama Administration's comprehensive plan to address rising gas prices, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a total of $47 million

May 06, 2011 Read Full Article

The Beginning of the End of the Ethanol Joke

by Paul Studebaker (Sustainable Planet)   ...It’s too soon to talk about grain-based ethanol in the past tense, but maybe not by much. While ethanol has a place as a bio-based octane enhancer and consequently, as a means to extend oil

May 03, 2011 Read Full Article

$1.6 Million in Biofuels Center Grants to Accelerate Commercialization of Renewable Fuels

(Biofuels Center of North Carolina)  The Biofuels Center of North Carolina has awarded $1.6 million for 15 projects statewide to accelerate the commercialization of renewable liquid fuels. Awards are made through the 2011 Statewide Biofuels Development Grants Program. Biofuels Center president

May 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Keasling Featured in NOVA’s ‘Power Surge’ Program

(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/PBS)  Can emerging technology defeat global warming? The United States has invested tens of billions of dollars in clean energy projects as our leaders try to save our crumbling economy and our poisoned planet in one bold,

May 02, 2011 Read Full Article

The Need for Biofuels

(The Star Malaysia)  Experts predict the majority of the world’s oil fields will reach maximum petroleum extraction capacity in 2020, a state otherwise known as “peak oil”. After this point, a reduction in pressure causes the rate of production to

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

SC State University Professor Looks to Make Biofuel Cheaper

by Adam Pinsker (MidlandsConnect.com)  A South Carolina State University professor is leading a team of engineers and economists on a three-year study into how to make biofuel cheaper. Professor Jae-Dong Hong says one of the biggest reasons biofuels aren't taking over

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Grants Support Sustainable Bioenergy Production

(U.S. Department of Agriculture)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced research grants awarded to spur production of bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s

April 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Harvesting, Storage and Transfer Technology Update

by Maynard Herron and Bob Matousek   (Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy)     AGCO (Hesston, KS) received an award for biomass feedstock supply demonstration as a partial match of a $5 million renewable energy R & D grant

April 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Bioenergy Crops Could Lower Surface Temperatures, Stanford Researchers Say

(Stanford University News)  Concerns about the impact of corn ethanol on global warming have raised interest in more eco-friendly perennial grasses. A new study finds that large-scale cultivation of perennials could actually reduce regional surface temperatures. Converting large swaths of farmland

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

The Need for Alternative Fuel: When Biofuels and Genetic Engineering Meet

by Alexander Kunev (The McGill Daily)  ...However, getting rid of a system of distribution that encompasses a large network of filling stations and refineries is far from the most efficient way to ensure that more vehicles will be powered by

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Steel in the Ground

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   But this week in the little burgh of Boardman, Oregon (population 3,300), which happens to sit adjacent to the second-largest inland port in the western United States (the port of Morrow, on the Columbia

March 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Switching Biofuels Could do a Double-Whammy on Climate Change

by John Timmer (Ars Technica)  Biofuel crops have the potential to offset the world's reliance on fossil fuels, increasing energy security and decreasing the risk of climate change. However, the choice of crops and target fuel can radically change their

March 03, 2011 Read Full Article

The Brew Barons: Masters of Advanced Fermentation, Driving the Redefinition of Biofuels: Pt 1

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Is there enough energy, food, fiber and feed for all? Advances in industrial fermentation – a/k/a an incredulous “you’re making what? from what? using what? – will be the key to answering that question. The stars of this drama

March 01, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Expands Efforts to Develop Crop Insurance for Biofuels Producers

(US Department of Agriculture)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced February 25, 2011, that USDA will soon seek proposals to study the feasibility of providing crop insurance to producers of biofuel feedstocks, including corn stover, straw and woody biomass. These feasibility

February 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Genetically Modified Prairie Grass Yields Cheaper, More Abundant Ethanol

By Elizabeth Lopatto (Bloomberg)  Switchgrass, the prairie plant that once fueled the buffalo herds of the American Great Plains, may one day fill automobile tanks in a bioengineered form that’s cheaper and yields more ethanol than the original variety. Researchers showed that

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

A Billion Tons of Biomass a Viable Goal, but at High Price, New Research Shows

by Phil Ciciora (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  A team of researchers led by Madhu Khanna, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, shows that very high biomass prices would be needed in order to meet the ambitious

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Growing Biofuel Crops in Unusual Places

(Michigan State University)  Michigan State University researchers are finding new locations to grow crops used for biofuel. The land they’ve identified might surprise some because it’s right next to where the fuel is being used. Dennis Pennington, an MSU Extension bioenergy educator,

February 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Update on DDCE Cellulosic Ethanol Projects

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)   Two and a half years ago DuPont partnered with Danisco (whom DuPont is now acquiring) to create DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (DDCE). In just a short amount of time, the venture has come a long way

February 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Advancing Biocrop Alternatives in the Pacific Northwest

by Ann Perry   (USDA ARS)  Pacific Northwest farmers could someday be filling up their machinery's tanks with fuels produced from their own fields, according to ongoing research by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. Since 2003, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist Hal Collins and

February 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Vinod Khosla on Biofuel Feedstocks

by Vinod Khosla  (GreenTechMedia)  Imagination is in shortest supply when it comes to agronomic econometrics that extrapolate the past instead of inventing a new future. Part II:  Feedstock. Feedstock cost, environmental impact and even its politics are critical variables. With each

February 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Field Day Promotes Giant Miscanthus

by Cheree Franco (Mississippi State Ag Communications)   On a January morning in Soperton, Ga., southeastern farmers mingled with investors and biomass experts to discuss Freedom Giant Miscathus--a towering grass that may be America’s most promising clean energy solution. Freedom was developed

February 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Regents Give LSU AgCenter 5-year Extension on Biofuels Institute

(Louisiana State University)  The LSU AgCenter has received a five-year extension from the Louisiana Board of Regents to continue with the establishment of the Louisiana Institute for Biofuels and Bioprocessing. “We appreciate the vote of confidence,” said John Russin, LSU AgCenter interim

February 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Penn State Demonstrates Biofuel Crops for PA

by Kelsey McNeeley and Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA/Lancaster Farming)  In 2002, Penn State University began using 20 percent (B20) biodiesel fuel on campus in the division of farm operations.  Because of their expertise in biodiesel, Penn State’s farm operations (Farm Ops)

January 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Genera Identifies Switchgrass as Starting Point

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Research being conducted in Tennessee to take biomass from the “farm gate to the biorefinery gate” has zeroed in on switchgrass. That’s not to say that switchgrass is the only answer for cellulosic ethanol

January 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Bonanza for East TN Farmers

(Nashville Business Journal)  East Tennessee farmers have started to reap benefits from efforts to turn switchgrass into biofuel, with at least one farmer saying that if he had it to do over again, he would devote four times as much

January 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Tennessee Switchgrass Initiative Looking for Investors

(Nashville Public Radio)  The state’s switchgrass initiative is looking for new investors. The program aims to turn crops of the tall perennial grass into ethanol to fuel cars. Now it’s using a new East Tennessee biorefinery to demonstrate the technology, in

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Farmers Encouraged to Plant Switchgrass

(AP/The Ledger Independent)  A new program to explore the viability of biofuels is seeking to establish 700 acres of switchgrass fields and is offering financial assistance to Kentucky farmers. The project follows another that began in 2007 by the Kentucky Forage and

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Biomass May Hold Partial Solution to Global Energy Needs

by Cary Blake (Western Farm Press)   A growing U.S. agricultural biomass industry can help meet the catapulting energy and fuel demands of a global population that the United Nations predicts could reach 9 billion by 2050.  “We need to envision and implement

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

BIOLYFE Newsletter Announces Preliminary Research Results of EU Second Generation Ethanol Production Project

(BIOLYFE)  The BIOLYFE project aims at improving critical steps of the second generation bioethanol production process and at demonstrating the whole supply chain, from feedstock sourcing via fuel production to product utilisation. The main result will be the construction of an

December 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Switchgrass Pilot Program Concluding

by Misty Maynard  (Maysville Ledger-Independent)  A multi-year pilot project researching the possibility of using switchgrass as a biofuel is drawing to an end, but a new program is seeking to establish 700 more acres of switchgrass and is offering financial assistance

December 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Agrivida Announces Collaboration with Syngenta Ventures to Deliver Low-Cost Sugars for Cellulosic Biofuels and Biochemicals

(Agrivida)  Agrivida, Inc. announced a collaboration with Syngenta Ventures to develop advanced crop technology that will provide low-cost sugars for a variety of industrial applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Syngenta licenses to Agrivida access to crop technology and

December 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Moth Presents Snag in Biofuels Progress

by Cody Winchester  (Argus Leader)  Eating habits of insect pose problem for researchers Scientists at South Dakota State University are shedding new light on an insect that could compete with humans for switchgrass, a potential biofuel crop, underscoring the need for more

December 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Researchers Find New Switchgrass Virus

(High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal)  University of Illinois researchers have confirmed the first report of a potential new virus belonging to the genus Marafivirus in switchgrass, a biomass crop being evaluated for commercial cellulosic ethanol production. The virus is associated with mosaic and

November 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Grasses Have Potential as Alternate Ethanol Crop, Illinois Study Finds

(EurekAlert!)  Money may not grow on trees, but energy could grow in grass. Researchers at the University of Illinois have completed the first extensive geographic yield and economic analysis of potential bioenergy grass crops in the Midwestern United States. Demand for biofuels

November 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Facility to Focus on Alternative Fuel Technology

by Ronica Shannon (The Richmond Register)  A new research facility at Eastern Kentucky University could help the state become a national leader in alternative fuel technology, according to Sixth District Congressman Ben Chandler. Chandler was the keynote speaker Thursday at an

November 01, 2010 Read Full Article

Advanced Energy Crops: Industry Perspectives -- Ceres, the Energy Crop Company

Anna Rath (Vice President of Commercial Development, Ceres, Inc.)  Ceres is a seed company that uses advanced biotechnology to develop and distribute energy crop seeds. Rath discusses reasons for their commercial development being slower than planned, but Ceres still anticipates several

October 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Feedstock Logistics: Demonstration of a Large-Scale Integrated Switchgrass Supply Chain

by Dr. Kelly Tiller (President and Chief Executive Officer, Genera Energy, LLC)  Dr. Tiller details the large commitment the state of Tennessee has made to biofuels research. Genera Energy, a research firm owned by the University of Tennessee, has worked with switchgrass

October 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Ceres Publishes Best Practices on Energy Crop Production

(Ceres)  Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. has published two new crop management guides that include the most current recommendations on the establishment, management and harvest of switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum. Energy grasses, which provide high yields of biomass that can be converted

October 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Neutrons Helping Researchers Unlock Secrets to Cheaper Ethanol

(Science Daily)  New insight into the structure of switchgrass and poplars is fueling discussions that could result in more efficient methods to turn biomass into biofuel. Researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech used small-angle

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

The Pros & Cons of Miscanthus

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel)  ...The potential of miscanthus and switchgrass has been studied extensively by researchers Greg McIsaac, Mark B. David and Corey A. Mitchell... The study focused on two important environmental concerns surrounding biomass: water quantity and nitrogen “leeching”. When

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

DOE Announces Awards for up to $16.5 Million for Biomass Research and Development

(US Department of Energy)  U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced September 8, 2010, the investment of up to $16.5 million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. The first initiative

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Genera Energy and Alcoa Partner to Grow Switchgrass in Blount County; Planting has significant environmental benefit

(Genera Energy) Land owned by Alcoa Inc, Tennessee Operations, is now being used to grow a popular perennial grass known for producing cellulosic ethanol. Approximately 238 acres of switchgrass have been planted on property that Alcoa leases to a local farmer

August 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Switchgrass Highlighted at Farm and Field Day

by Carlton Purvis  (SCNow.com)   Native grass burns cleaner than coal and promotes wildlife. The Pee Dee Research and Education Center announced the next step in its study of switchgrass as an alternative energy source during its annual Pee Dee Farm Field Day on Tuesday. Later

August 12, 2010 Read Full Article

Study Asks, Can Bio-Fuel Crops Be Grown in Lubbock?

by James Clark (KCBD)  A new study done in Lubbock and other parts of Texas will look at growing crops for use as bio-fuels.  The Texas Ag Extension in Lubbock and five other cities will do the study that looks

August 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Digest Special Report on Switchgrass; Genera Breaks Ground on Biomass Innovation Park

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...However, SARA (safe, affordable, reliable, available) feedstocks for advanced biofuels remain a goal rather than an assured reality. In this context, Genera should be seen as one of a handful of projects — aside from the

August 02, 2010 Read Full Article

A New Tool for Improving Switchgrass

by Dennis O'Brien  (USDA Agricultural Research Service)  Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have developed a new tool for deciphering the genetics of a native prairie grass being widely studied for its potential as a biofuel. The genetic map of switchgrass, published

July 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Constructing a Stage for Ethanol Creation

by Larisa Brass (KnoxvilleBiz.com)  As its biorefinery demonstration plant churns toward one day generating automobile fuel from grass, Genera Energy is beginning construction of what will effectively be the staging grounds for that process. This week the company, spun out from the

July 27, 2010 Read Full Article

On-Farm Demonstrations of Energy Crop Production Underway

(University of Tennessee)  Study includes multiple varieties of switchgrass. Midsummer is nearly here, and the University of Tennessee Biofuels Initiative  (UTBI) is closely watching how more than 1000 acres of newly planted, improved varieties of switchgrass are faring. Only time will

July 23, 2010 Read Full Article

High-Yielding Miscanthus for Ethanol

by Hembree Brandon   (Delta Farm Press)   “We see a lot of potential in Freedom giant miscanthus — it’s the most promising of the hundreds of miscanthus cultivars we’ve evaluated over the years, and it’s light years ahead of any of the other

July 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Yield Projections for Switchgrass as a Biofuel Crop

(American Society of Agronomy)  Scientists compile field studies across U.S. to identify influences on biomass yield While scientists have conducted numerous studies on production of biomass from biofuel crops, such as switchgrass, no one has yet compiled this information to evaluate

July 14, 2010 Read Full Article

25 Million Acres of Corn with Nowhere to Go, by 2030? A Digest Special Report

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...(D)oomsayers who have been predicting an inevitable conflict between food and fuel appear to have been completely off the mark. Rather than a shortage of food, the increased pace of biotechnology innovation associated with bioenergy is

July 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Ceres Develops First Salt Tolerant Energy Crop

by Joanne Schroeder (DomesticFuel)  Now this is interesting. I was reading earlier this morning in Cadillac Desert about how agriculture in many areas is suffering from water issues that include too much salt. The salt damages the soil, kills the crops

July 01, 2010 Read Full Article

ICM to Begin Construction on Pilot Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

(ICM)  , Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to receive $25 million to fund the construction and operation of its cellulosic ethanol pilot and demonstration facility in St.

June 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Sustainable Biofuels from Forests, Grasslands and Rangelands

(Ecological Society of America)  Analyzing biofuel sources and predicting effects on water, soil and the atmosphere:  The promise of switchgrass, the challenges for forests and the costs of corn-based ethanol production: Ecological scientists review the many factors surrounding biofuel crop production

May 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Is Switchgrass In Your Future, And If So, Will It Be Profitable?

(Cattle Network)  ...One of the first products that may be digested in a cellulosic ethanol plant is switchgrass, which is a warm-season grass native to this part of the world. Agronomically it can be produced, but will it be economically

April 26, 2010 Read Full Article

Saving Energy When Pre-Processing Biofuels

by Matt Ford (Ars Technica)  ...When it comes to the processing of organic feedstocks for use in biofuel operations, getting plant matter down to size often represents a significant cost, as grinding and milling do not come cheap. New work by

April 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Digest Special Report on Biofuels, Genomics, and Feedstock Development

by Mackinnon Lawrence (Biofuels Digest)  ...Genomics research can be applied to energy crops to select for sequencing based on relevance to the DOE missions.  Projects focus on one of three key aspects: the development of biofuel feedstocks; the identification of

April 02, 2010 Read Full Article

North Dakota State University Economist Helps Sort Out Biofuel’s Future

by Mikkel Pates (AgWeek)  Need some help in deciding what to make into biofuels and what the government should be spending on it?   If you’re a North Dakotan, you’ve hired Cole Gustafson to do some of this thinking for you.

February 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Miscanthus, Sweet Sorghum, Energy Cane Advancing at SERC

Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Mississippi, MSU professor Brian Baldwin provided an update on feedstock research at the MSU’s Sustainable Energy Research Center, where a focus on biofuels grasses has produced the recently licensed Freedom varietal of giant miscanthus. ...Baldwin’s presentation

February 18, 2010 Read Full Article

USDA Scientists Sequence Genome of Biofuel Model Crop

by Dennis O'Brien (Agricultural Research Service)  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass that will

February 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Researchers Evaluate New Potential Pests in Biomass Crops

Perennial grasses could become popular biomass crops in the future. Many perceive these grasses require little to no management for insects or other pests. However, researchers are finding rather than being pest-free, the identity of insect pests and their effects

February 11, 2010 Read Full Article

New Crops to Boost Biofuel

by Emily Wilkins (The State News)  A team of professors from MSU’s Department of Entomology examined several biofuel crops to see how many beneficial insects were attracted to the plants and found several other potential biofuel crop candidates. ... Research

February 02, 2010 Read Full Article

Researchers Discover Switchgrass-Hungry Moth, Fly

by Dirk Lammers (Sun Journal, AP)  Researchers at South Dakota State University have rediscovered a long-ignored moth and found a new fly, both of which like to munch on switchgrass, a crop billed as a future feedstock for next-generation ethanol. SDSU

January 18, 2010 Read Full Article

Switchgrass Produces Biomass Efficiently

by F. M. Epplin (Renewable Energy World and Oklahoma State University)   USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the production of perennial grasses,

January 05, 2010 Read Full Article

Environmental and Regulatory Sustainability of Genetically Engineered Bioenergy Feedstocks: Switchgrass

by C. Neal Stewart, Jr. (Sun Grant Initiative)  This presentation reviews the benefits and challenges of using switchgrass as a biofuels feedstock.  It includes good graphs of cell wall structures, maps of biomass crop potential in the US and discussions

December 29, 2009 Read Full Article

Market Interactions, Farmers' Choices, and the Sustainability of Growing Advanced Biofuels: a Missing Perspective?

by Yong Jiang  and Scott M. Swinton  (International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology)  Advanced biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol are of great interest in the USA. With agriculture being the major source of feedstock for advanced biofuels, how farmers would

December 11, 2009 Read Full Article

LOGOS Technologies and EDENIQ Awarded Cellulosic Bio-ethanol Grant from US Department of Energy

Logos Technologies, Inc. and EdeniQ, Inc. announced that they have been awarded a $20.4 million grant to modify and operate a pilotscale bio‐refinery plant to produce low‐cost ethanol bio‐fuel from cellulosic feedstock, such as corn stover and switch grass. Logos

December 10, 2009 Read Full Article

Tennessee Legislators Approve Changes to Switchgrass Project

(Tennessean)  A panel of state lawmakers approved plans to amend a $70 million research effort to produce ethanol in East Tennessee, blaming a lack of communication for a hearing two weeks ago in which some members suggested pulling the plug

November 22, 2009 Read Full Article

Solazyme Awarded California Energy Commission Grant to Develop Clean Fuel from Local Cellulosic Feedstocks

Solazyme, Inc., a renewable oil production company and algal biotechnology company, was awarded a $789,697 Biosynthetic Transportation Fuel Production grant from the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.   ...  The PIER Program Opportunity Notice (PON) announced that

August 11, 2009 Read Full Article

EdeniQ Grows Improved Energy Crops in California’s Central Valley

EdeniQ, a California-based technology company serving the global biofuels industry, announced that it has begun a multi-year, field-to-fuel trial to evaluate low-carbon, non-food energy crops, like switchgrass, in California’s Central Valley. The company’s pilot-scale field trial of switchgrass was planted

June 23, 2009 Read Full Article

American Chemical Society Announces New Bioprocess for Producing Biofuels from Agricultural Waste

Scientists in California are reporting use of a first-of-its-kind approach to craft genetically engineered microbes with the much-sought ability to transform switchgrass, corn cobs, and other organic materials into methyl halides — the raw material for making gasoline and a

May 22, 2009 Read Full Article

Energy Crop Company on the Cutting Edge of Biomass Production--Switchgrass

The greatest irony of America’s 21st Century quest for energy independence is that it – whatever “it” turns out to be – most assuredly has been here all along! And none of the emerging cellulosic bioenergy feedstocks fits that description

May 07, 2009 Read Full Article

Changes in Soil Organic Carbon under Biofuel Crops

by Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Sarah C. Davis, Michael D. Masters and Evan H. Delucia  (Global Change Biology Bioenergy)   One potentially significant impact of growing biofuel crops will be the sequestration or release of carbon (C) in soil. Soil organic carbon (SOC)

February 27, 2009 Read Full Article

How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever!

by Adam Lashinsky and Nelson D. Schwartz (CNN Money/Fortune Magazine) You probably don't know it, but the answer to America's gasoline addiction could be under the hood of your car. More than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles

January 31, 2006 Read Full Article
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