Renewable energy

By Mike Millikin US ethanol production in August was 727,500 barrels per day (b/d), according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA)— an increase of 80,000 b/d from August 2008. EIA also reports fuel ethanol imports of 38.7 million gallons in August.

By Mike Millikin Ongoing synthetic yeast cellulosome research being done at UCR is funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. University of California is looking for industry partners interested in evaluating this method of ethanol production.

By Mike Millikin Based in Bolingbrook, Ill., Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. creates a wide range of specialty chemicals from natural oils. Using a Nobel Prize winning technology called olefin metathesis, the company creates high performance waxes, functional oils, anti-microbials, lubricants,...

By Mike Millikin Test results indicate biofuel blends can be used safely for aviation, including business aircraft powered by Honeywell engines and APUs, with no effect on engine performance or operation. Biofuels can lower life cycle carbon dioxide emissions relative to conventional petroleum der...

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By Mike Millikin When it comes to climate change legislation, Congress has focused a great deal of attention on stationary emission sources, such as coal-fired power plants. We cannot, however, achieve a low-carbon future without biofuels, because biofuels can play a key role in reducing direct CO2 em...

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A high level of renewable electricity generation has been recorded in the latest New Zealand Energy Quarterly, Energy and Resources Minister Gerry… ... Favourable hydro lake flows this year meant higher use of hydro generation compared with the same time last year. "This also meant less ne...

By Mike Millikin The Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) awarded an estimated $8.5-million contract to Solazyme, Inc. for an algae-oil derived renewable F-76 shipboard fuel for the US Navy. DESC also awarded Sustainable Oils, LLC a $2.7-million contract for Hydrotreated Renewable HRJ-5 for... The Defens...

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Expansion of renewable energies should appreciably improve the health status of the 700,000 US workers employed in the energy sector, according to one expert.

By Mike Millikin If we are going to count the angels on the head of a pin when it comes to GHG emissions from biofuels, then we mustn’t ignore the significant outlay of resources to secure and protect our supplies of oil. If only those vehicles were running on Iraq’s abundant solar energy. But, they are all powe...

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By Mike Millikin Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions due to Increased Biofuel Production: Model Linkage Workshop on Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Analysis for the Proposed Revisions to the National Renewable Fuels Standard Program (10-11 June 2009)

By Mike Millikin Although DOE will consider non-fuel co-products in an application technology pathways resulting in co-products, other than liquid transportation fuels, comprising more than 30% on a weight basis of the starting biomass, will be considered a non-optimal use of biomass feedstock.

By Mike Millikin Although DOE will consider non-fuel co-products in an application technology pathways resulting in co-products, other than liquid transportation fuels, comprising more than 30% on a weight basis of the starting biomass, will be considered a non-optimal use of biomass feedstock.

The city of the future is currently being constructed on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. Masdar City shall be supplied exclusively with renewable energy and produce neither carbon dioxide nor waste. An underground transportation system, will leave its streets car-free.

By Mike Millikin by Bill Cooke Green Car Congress recently attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF- Wall Street) conference sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). One of the highlights to the conference... by Bill Cooke

By Mike Millikin Amyris Renewable Products Demonstration Facility. Photo: Business Wire. Click to enlarge. Amyris Brasil Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Ltda., a wholly owned subsidiary of Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc., opened the Amyris Renewable Products Demonstration Facility in Campinas, Brazil. Th...

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 NV Renewable energy is now the focus because converting to it is one of the essential preparations. Projections show that the finite nature of fossil fuels will result in a dwindling supply of oil in the coming decades. They also show that unchecked ...

 TX Another aspect of the wind industry that will arrive at full throttle by the end of 2013 is keeping AC busy. Under its renewable energy program, the school started training wind technicians in January and now has more than 600 on the waiting list to ...

Beyond dealing with the realities of waste disposal issues and high upfront costs, it looks like nuclear advocates will also not see nuclear power added to the proposed 15% national renewable energy standard. While supporters argued that nuclear can ...

By Renewable Energy World - Renewable Energy World Kyocera Corporation has announced that it will supply solar modules for the new Toyota Prius solar ventilation system, an optional feature for the hybrid car model introduced in Japan by Toyota Motor ...

 NH Perhaps the solution to the dilemma of where to start is to simultaneously use as many complementary technologies as possible, including geothermal, solar and wind energy systems, among others, in the same building. Indeed, building-integrated options ...

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 NC Add the opportunity to charge plug-in hybrids with wind power generated at night and delivered by a Renewable Energy Super Highway transmission system, and Texas is the best place in the nation to test this technology."

 Pakistan ISLAMABAD: About 450 biogas units, based on dung of buffaloes and cows have been installed in the country, which will fulfil the needs of an average family of up to eight members in far-flung rural areas of the country. ...

By Mike Millikin Renewable fuels. Defined as fuel produced from renewable biomass that is used to replace or reduce the quantity of fossil fuel present in a transportation fuel, this ends up being the category into which corn ethanol requirements fall. In other words, although the entire standard is defi...

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By Alternative Energy Foundation Renewable Energy Transmission Company (Retco) is a new, green economy, company dedicated to connecting renewable generation (wind farms, solar and geothermal plants) to the electric grid, from where the energy can be delivered to population centers. It’s President, Stephen Burnag...

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Well, the problem is that 30 years hasn’t changed the physics of things like the intensity of sunlight or wind power. Nuclear power has 2 million times the energy density of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are again about ten times as dense as wind and ...

By James Weir CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND: Renewable power generation is at a five-year high with full hydro lake levels, new geothermal plants and more wind power. Renewable power accounted for 74 per cent of the total energy generated in the December ...

By Mike Millikin Air Products, the leading supplier of merchant hydrogen to refineries to assist in making cleaner burning transportation fuels, has completed more than 85,000 hydrogen fills and has placed more than 90 hydrogen fueling stations in the United States and 16 countries worldwide. Air Pro...

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 IL The reality is that energy security is essential to getting our economy moving. We need more energy than ever to power the factories and jobs that will develop the new products to carry us out of this recession. Renewable energy such as wind and solar ...

By Mike Millikin The recently concluded Alberta Renewable Diesel Demonstration (ARDD), Canada’s largest cold-weather study of bio-derived diesel fuels, demonstrated the successful on-road use of low-level blends of biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester, FAME) and hydrogenated-derived renewabl...

Energy Matters How Renewable is Renewable Energy? Bharat hot on solar cookers, new energy Times of India SCE, BrightSource sign deal for 1300MW of solar thermal power Energy Business Review Giant solar deal inked Arizona Daily Sun Press of Atlantic City - Energy Matters

By rss@youtube.com (sspliving) http://tinyurl.com/EnergyReviewPost Alternative Renewable energy sources are hot topics now as the cost of energy continues to rise. There have been a host of companies come onto the market offering advice on how to generate electricity using home made energy solutions. How on earth do...

Austin Energy`s $2.3 billion biomass energy contract approved Underwear factory coverted to 17MW biomass plant Cleantech Group Innovative Biomass Energy Project to Begin Regulatory Review ... Your Renewable News (press release)

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Robert Walsh, the president of LS9 Inc., about their innovative new process of turning any kind of biomass into biodiesel.

On a more positive note the EU intends to embark on the “Renewable energy supergrid”, an innovative electricity highway to connect solar power from southern Europe and north Africa, offshore wind power produced in the Atlantic and other renewable energy sources from the mainland. Howe...

Yes, solar energy and wind power have an important place in our energy future. But the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine 24/7. Solar may be practical for base-load application in Arizona. Wind can be most effective in some coastal regions and in the Plains states. For New York, howeve...

By Terry Macalister The moves come as Britain has recently put more muscle into its low-carbon drive by creating a new government department to cover energy and climate change, while Spain, Germany and other European nations press ahead with their own plans to boost renewables.

By Mike Millikin Currently, 27 states in the US have enacted RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standard) policies. Some include specific mandates that a percentage of the requirement be met with solar energy. However, most current solar applications are not cost-competitive with other power generating optio...

By Mike Millikin The Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA), the UK’s independent sustainable fuels regulator, released its first interim quarterly report which includes disclosure of company performance on the supply of biofuels under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO).

By Mike Millikin Deploying Renewables: Principles for Effective Policies (IEA 2008) The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that nearly 50% of global electricity supplies will have to come from renewable energy sources in order to halve CO2 emissions by 2050 in order to minimize significan...

By David Roberts Sure. "Renewable petroleum" -- yes, that's what they call it -- strikes me as vastly preferable to liquid coal and corn ethanol, substantially preferable to cellulosic ethanol, and inferior to a transformed society based on dense cities, public transit, and electrified transportati...

FP How to Move Forward with Ethanol? Lawmakers in Congress have passed a Renewable Fuels Standard calling for the production of 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, with more than half of that coming from cellulosic ethanol rather than the current feedstock of choice, corn. The figure i...

By David Darman PSNH expresses concerns with the Solar energy requirement in NH's new Renewable Portfolio Standard Law.

By Gbrown888 So what’s the point? Water should be FREE! Water is a renewable energy source. Renewable energy is any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric power, that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel (ww...