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- Oil Refiner Valero Plows More Money into Renewables with Terrabon Investment
- The ink has barely dried on Valero Energy's $477 million check for seven ethanol plants and a development site from bankrupt VeraSun and it's already investing more money into another renewable project. In this latest endeavor, Valero has become the lead investor in Terrabon, a company developing technology to convert trash from...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Waste-to-Fuels Startup Terrabon Hauls in Waste Management Investment
- Terrabon has landed another investment partner -- this time, it's Waste Management-- in its pursuit of commercially viable green gasoline, a renewable fuel made from the organic waste found in your local landfill. BNET wrote about Houston, Texas-based Terrabon back in April, when Valero Energy, the largest U.S....
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
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- Terrabon to build Texas-based biofuels plant
- Terrabon, L.L.C. has broken ground on a biofuels conversion facility in Bryan, TX that will test the scaled-up, commercial feasibility of its MixAlco[TM] technology, which converts nonfood biomass into chemicals that can be processed into ethanol and renewable gasoline fuels. The new plant, which is expected to be operational...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Waste Management Says Yes to Terrabon?s Trash-to-Fuel Tech, Joining Valero
- Greentech Media submits: By Jeff St. John Terrabon wants to turn trash and other non-food organic waste into salts that can be converted into gasoline. Waste Management WM, America's biggest trash hauling company, appears to be a fan of the idea. by Greentech Media
- External links 2009-08-27
- Qteros teams with Israel's ACT on sludge-to-fuel process
- Amherst, Mass.-based startup Qteros announced details today of a new partnership that is expected to broaden its range of potential feedstocks and reduce production costs for cellulosic ethanol. Qteros and Israeli commodities recycler Applied CleanTech ACT entered a joint development project that the companies claim is the first to demonstrate the commercial viability...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Fulcrum BioEnergy claims proof of waste-to-ethanol tech
- Pleasanton, Calif.-based Fulcrum BioEnergy said its demonstration facility has now proved the viability of its waste-to-fuel technology, clearing the path for the startup to begin building a commercial plant capable of producing ethanol at $1 per gallon. Vice President Rick Barraza told the Cleantech Group today that Fulcrum plans to raise equity and...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Ethanol Plants Idle, Workers Wait as VeraSun Buyout Drags Out
- Several companies including U.S. oil refiner Valero Energy have swooped up ethanol plants from bankrupt-plagued VeraSun Energy. But employees at many of these plants are still worrying and waiting for the deals to close so they can get back to work. Valero has the highest profile deal --...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- California Kicks Corn-based Ethanol to the Curb; Welcomes Futuristic Biofuels
- The corn ethanol industry already reeling from low gasoline prices and higher corn and energy costs suffered another blow to its bottom line and possibly its future Thursday when the California Air Resource Board OK'd the nation's first low-carbon fuel standard. In a 9-1 vote late Thursday CARB approved...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Does EPA Biofuels Proposal Really Threaten Corn-based Ethanol?
- Politicians, ethanol producers and environmentalists have worked themselves into a frenzy since the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under 2007 legislation, proposed new standards for the biofuels industry aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Much of the verbal sparring centers on how emissions of biofuels will be measured and whether the proposed rule unfairly...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Virent Energy, Shell Poised for Second-Gen Biofuels Race
- Now that the dust kicked up over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for the biofuels industry has settled just a little bit, it's worth taking a look at Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell, companies well-positioned in the advanced biofuels race. The EPA released this week its draft regulations requiring biofuels to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Ethanol Industry Squeezes an Otherwise Profitable Farmer Mac
- Folks -- or should I say shareholders -- were falling all over themselves yesterday on news that the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp., commonly called Farmer Mac, posted a first-quarter profit. Hooray --Â good for them. Let's not forget the other piece of the rural lender's earnings report. The...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Does Conoco Deserve a Subsidy to Produce Biofuels?
- ConocoPhillips ended its long-idling animal fat-to-diesel fuel project with Tyson Foods on Wednesday because federal tax credits slashed in half last fall have yet to be restored by lawmakers. The question is whether Conoco, the second-largest U.S. oil refiner, should have ever qualified for the $1-per-gallon tax credit?...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Green Plains, Sunoco Deals Highlight Bargain-Basement Ethanol Plant Prices
- It's remarkable what ethanol plants are going for these days. Two separate ethanol plant purchases this week shine a glaring light on how far prices have dropped since last year. With prices this low, the ethanol-producing industry is going to experience rapid consolidation, that's already begun. Philadelphia-based...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Who Will Buy Bankrupt Ethanol Maker Aventine?
- Bankrupt ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy is no longer tying up all its effort and hopes into recapitalization. Company leaders obviously aware of the massive hurdles it faces, has put its business up on the public selling block. Will another oil refiner, like Valero Energy, jump into the biz and buy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- POET to Use Corn Cobs - Not Natural Gas - to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
- POET has figured out what the rest of the corn-based ethanol industry has failed to grasp: relying on price-volatile fossil fuels to power its plants is bad for business. POET announced Wednesday it will use corn cobs -- specifically the liquid waste created in the cob-to-fuel conversion process -- to power its...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- GreenHunter Puts 'For Sale' Sign on Biodiesel Refinery
- GreenHunter Energy has joined the growing list of U.S. biodiesel companies struggling with European tariffs on exports and low oil prices. Just last year the company opened a massive biodiesel refinery in Texas -- considered the largest in the U.S. -- capable of producing 105 million gallons a year. Now that...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- EU Imposes Five-Year Tariff on U.S. Biodiesel Producers
- U.S. biodiesel producers -- already suffering from low oil prices, weak domestic demand and a delayed Environmental Protection Agency mandate -- were hit Tuesday with a five-year tariff on exports to Europe. The European Union imposed a provisional tariff on imports of U.S.-made biodiesel back in March in response...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Exxon Gives SGI's Algae-to-Fuel Effort $600 Million Kick-start
- ExxonMobil's $600 million partnership with Synthetic Genomics to develop next-generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae is already being cast as a shift in the conservative company's modus operandi. And why not? The largest U.S. oil company by market value has shied away from investments in alternative energy and has been especially...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- POET CEO: Future of Second-Gen Biofuels Depends on E15
- The argument for increasing the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline has generally stayed within the this-is-good-for-all-us territory. But in a year of bankruptcy filings and idling plants, the ethanol industry is taking a slightly more doomsday approach. In a Bloomberg article, Jeff Broin, head of the largest U.S. ethanol producer, said...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Qteros, Applied CleanTech to Harness Power of Poo to Make Ethanol
- Qteros and Applied CleanTech are giving new life to municipal wastewater solids -- a cleaned up term for what most of us call poo -- by turning it into fuel for cars. Yes, poo-powered cars may be in our future. That future may still be a ways...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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