Vilsack talks about USDA efforts to further advanced biofuels

Biomass Magazine


By Holly Jessen | April 11, 2014


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UNICA: Sugarcane Ethanol Plays Modest But Important Role Supplying U.S. With Advanced Biofuels

Biofuels Journal


Date Posted: April 8, 2014


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Biofuels face sharp slowdown as next-generation fuels emerge: Lux Research

Business Standard


BS B2B Bureau  |  Boston, Massachusetts  March 14, 2014 Last Updated at 11:32 IST


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Minnesota legislators propose incentives for advanced biofuels and chemicals

Biofuels Digest


Meghan Sapp | March 17, 2014
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Brazil’s Big Six in advanced biofuels & chemicals: who’s doing what now?

Jim Lane | September 16, 2013

USDA announces $98.6 million in support of advanced biofuels

Biofuels Digest

Jim Lane | June 12, 2013

 

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Average wait time for EPA pathway ruling exceeds 16 months

Biodiesel Magazine

By Susanne Retka Schill | June 04, 2013

 

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IEA publishes global update of advanced, cellulosic projects

Ethanol Producer Magazine

By Erin Voegele | April 10, 2013

 

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EPA approves new cellulosic, advanced biofuel pathways

Ethanol Producer Magazine
By Erin Voegele
February 26, 2013

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Ethanol imported as advanced biofuel competes with biodiesel

Ethanol Producer Magazine


By Susanne Retka Schill
December 10, 2012

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Solazyme crosses the Rubicon

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane
December 14, 2012   Read more

Biomass Magazine

Agave is proving itself


By Anna Simet
October 24, 2012

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Iowa State engineers convert bio-oil into advanced biofuels

Biomass Magazine

By Iowa State University
October 15, 2012

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Burning Man, Burning Microbe: Biofuels beyond biomass

Biofuels Digest

Jim Lane
October 12, 2012   Read more

Advanced biofuels industry: Policy instability hurts

Biomass Magazine
By Sue Retka Schill
August 29, 2012

USDA Announces Support For Renewable Biofuels Feedstock Production and Use

Biofuels Journal
Date Posted: July 27, 2012
Washington—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced July 27 payments for 125 advanced Biofuel producers across the country to support the production and expansion of advanced biofuels from a wide variety of non-food sources, including waste products.
"Advanced biofuels are a key component of President Obama's 'all-of-the-above' energy strategy to reduce the Nation's reliance on foreign oil and take control of America's energy future," said Vilsack.

"These payments represent help spur an alternative fuels industry using renewable feedstocks grown in America, broadening the range of feedstock options available to biofuels producers, helping to create an economy built to last."

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The Obama plan for cost-competitive, military biofuels: The 10-Minute Guide

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane
July 3, 2012

Domestic, diversified military fuels or affordable fuels? “False choice!” says Obama.


Want to know all about the Administration’s ambitious, multi-agency program for cost-competitive military biofuels, but haven’t the time to plow through the mountain of documents?


The Digest’s 10-Minute Guide gives you the news you can use.

It’s finally here. The Obama Administration has laid out an integrated strategy for commercializing advanced biofuels, with a focus in this phase on military advanced biofuels at cost-competitive prices with conventional fuels.

The vehicle is a joint program between the DOE, USDA and the Department of Defense (principally, starring the US Navy, though, as we’ll see, critically including other elements).

In his Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future released in March 2011, President Obama set a goal of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025 and laid out an all-of-the-above energy plan to achieve that goal by developing domestic oil and gas energy resources, increasing energy efficiency, and speeding development of biofuels and other alternatives.

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Designing microbes that make energy-dense biofuels without sugar

Phys.org
June 28, 2012 by Renee Meiller



(Phys.org) -- With metabolically engineered microorganisms hungry for levulinic acid rather than sugar, a UW-Madison chemical and biological engineer aims to create more sustainable, cost-effective processes for converting biomass into high-energy-density hydrocarbon fuels.

Currently, commercial biofuels — for example, ethanol and biodiesel — are produced from such crops as sugarcane or corn, or derived from plant oils. However, existing production processes for these “first-generation” biofuels are energy-intensive and ill suited to meet future demand for alternative transportation fuels.

Brian Pfleger, a UW-Madison assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, is among an emerging group of researchers that is capitalizing on modern biotechnology tools to engineer systems that efficiently and sustainably produce “drop-in” fuels—advanced biofuels interchangeable with today’s fuels and compatible with existing infrastructure.

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Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center marks first issued patent

University of Wisconsin - Madison
June 18, 2012

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is marking the arrival of summer with a milestone: the first patent issued on the center's technology.

The patent protects a new heat-tolerant enzyme capable of breaking down the sturdy plant cell walls of cellulosic biomass into biofuel. The pioneering piece of intellectual property is based on research conducted at the GLBRC's Middleton, Wis.-based industry partner, C5-6 Technologies.

Cellulosic biomass, the leaves, stems and other non-edible parts of plants like grasses and corn, is valued for its potential to help replace fossil fuels as a renewable energy source. The patented discovery makes it possible to transfer from laboratory to industry a technology that converts biomass to ethanol and other advanced biofuels.

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Stakeholders respond to USDA’s biofuels roadmap

Drover's CattleNetwork
John Maday, Managing Editor, Drovers CattleNetwork
Updated: May 10, 2012

By 2022, the U.S. renewable fuel standard (RFS) calls for annual production of 21 billion gallons of advanced biofuels, and the USDA is trying to figure out how to get there.

In June 2010, the agency released a strategic report titled “A USDA Regional Roadmap to Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) by 2022.” Since then, USDA has collected almost 1,000 comments and conducted 57 stakeholder workshops to help determine whether agriculture and forestry can provide enough feedstock to achieve the RFS goals, provide an estimate of the relative contributions and type of feedstocks different regions could provide; and give an estimate of the financial investment required for advanced biofuel refineries.

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