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

1. Shelton Biomass Power Plant Secures Supply Agreement
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Adage, a biopower joint venture between Areva and Duke Energy, announced last week that it signed a long-term biomass fuel supply agreement with Green Diamond Resource Company, who owns and manages timberland ...

2. Forest Concepts Gets $1M for R&D on Biomass Technology
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Forest Concepts LLC, a research and development company that studies forest products and wood-based raw materials just received 1 million from the U.S. government to continue its research on second-generation ...

3. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

4. Community-Centric Approach to Biomass Energy Necessary
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A biomass energy approach that stresses multiple, smaller generation plants scaled to make use of local fuel supplies harvested sustainably would make biomass projects more appealing to communities and ...

5. Trends in Biomass: Opportunities for Global Equipment Suppliers in Asia
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Over the last 10 years, there has been a considerable change in biomass power generation in Asia. Indeed, owing to the scarcity and cost of biomass fuel, most power plants are in fact designed for multi-fuel ...

6. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

7. EPA Proposes Percentages for 2011 Renewable Fuel Standards
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the renewable fuel standard (RSF) for 2011 under the agency's RFS2 program. The RSF covers biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuels, cellulosic ...

8. USDA Awards $4.2 Million in Woody Biomass Utilization Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded more than $4.2 million in grants to small businesses and community groups for renewable energy projects. The projects, which will use biomass from ...

9. Uncertainties continue within cleantech public markets
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Solyndra drops IPO plans, plus Total and Amyris team on biomass fuels and chemicals, among 34 deals we spotted in the past seven days. ...

10. Biomass Power Association Responds to Report
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Bob Cleaves, president and CEO of Biomass Power Association (BPA), via teleconference addressed a report released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) on biomass fuels that BPA described as misleading. ...

11. Siemens Tests PetroAlgae's Biomass Fuel
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Siemens Energy this week said that it has successfully completed the first firing of PetroAlgae Inc.'s biocrude fuel, a plant-based, micro-crop biomass material that is processed into a solid residue. ...

12. Wood-Powered 'Biomass' Plants Have Critics Barking
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Plans for plants that generate electricity by burning wood chips and sawdust are in the works around the country, fueled by stimulus funds. Scientists say the plants are a "green" alternative only if they're ...

13. Co-firing Biomass with Coal
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... energy demand and affordability. Biomass co-firing technology can provide a path to addressing climate change while mitigating costs to the world's coal-generation base and the customers served. ...

14. Agro Pellet Burner Termo Cabi - Wood Energy Expo
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... boilers and can then convert fossil fuel boiler houses to biomass fuel and this more cheaply. Then, unlike existing burners already on the market, it can burn agro pellets which can reach up to 10% of ...

15. DOE and USDA Offer $30 Million for Biomass Research and Development
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are offering up to $30 million in funding for research and development of technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy, and high-value biobased products. ...

16. Biofuels, batteries and ABB’s $1B smart grid play
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

A Khosla-backed company converting biomass to biofuels and large format, rechargeable lithium-ion battery tech attracts VC investment, among 33 deals we spotted in the past seven days. ...

17. Farmers and Foresters Help Create Biofuels Through BCAP
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Jonathan Coppess said that biomass producers, energy facilities and communities are benefiting from USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). Through the beginning ...

18. Clean Energy Conferences Sprout in Spring and Early Summer
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... Grid, alternative fuels and biofuels, biomass energy, solar energy, and wind power. ...

19. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... solar lamps, solar pumps, wind power, biomass, biogas, and hydro), and more proactively promote Energy Efficiency. However, in this article, I will only focus on the use of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) ...

20. The Forbidden Fuel – A Personal Odyssey
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

In 1980, three young professionals decided to embark on an anthology of the early and modern dreamers of a sustainable biomass-based transportation system. Two reporters for legendary news muckraker ...

21. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... solar lamps, solar pumps, wind power, biomass, biogas, and hydro), and more proactively promote Energy Efficiency. However, in this article, I will only focus on the use of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) ...

22. Behind Carbon Trust’s plans for enhancing pyrolysis
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Head of R&D Rob Trezona discusses how a new consortium is looking to scale to more than 2 million tons of biofuels per year—using UK biomass alone. ...

23. Qteros & UMass Amherst Get US Patent for Q Microbe
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... The patent describes the creation of products, including biofuels, through the fermentation of biomass by a naturally-occurring anaerobic microorganism. ...

24. 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 ...

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

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

26. 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. ...

27. 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. ...

28. 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. ...

29. 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. ...

30. 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. ...