Burning Bio News

Hawaii considers second landfill gas power plant in O’ahu, HI.

A 50 million gallon ethanol plant proposed for Mayfield, PA.

Harvey County Planning and Zoning committee (Newton, KS) approved the siting of a 40 million gallon ethanol plant.

The Mason County Board (IL) voted unanimously Friday to rezone 227 acres of land from agricultural to industrial for a proposed 100 million gallon ethanol plant near San Jose, IL.

The Stanislaus County, CA volunteer fire department is not equipped to handle a fire at the forthcoming Cilion ethanol plant. The Fire Chief questions whether other rural fire departments are ready for an ethanol plant fire either.

Abengoa Bioenergy selects Hugoton, KS for its first cellulosic ethanol plant. When completed the Hugoton Plant will produce 13 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol and 88 million gallons of corn-based ethanol.

EthosGen would like to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Wilkes-Barre, PA. By selecting a specific feedstock - a fast-growing, hardy crossbred grass - and adding a specific enzyme at a critical time to extract more sugar they feel they are closer to commercial cellulosic production than others.

Town officials have made ambitious plans for turning an old school building into an energy-efficient city hall, and they are looking to the sun and the wind to help power the town itself.

Biodiesel of South Florida is considering building a 30 million gallon biodiesel plant in East Milton, FL.

Doubts about the 320 million gallon, Virginia biodiesel project were spurred by Smiling Earth Energy LLC’s failure to secure a Chesapeake tract for the plant, concerns about the companyÕs fiscal stability and questions about the federal drug conviction of one of two Smiling Earth principals, Clifford M. Cowles.

MSU’s College of Engineering is set to open it’s new, $10 million, 29,000-square-foot, Energy & Automotive Research Laboratory research complex.

Forster wood pellet plant, Strong, ME, to produce up to 80,000 tons of hardwood pellet fuel each year.

Hampton (MN) town board says no to ethanol plant. Local opinion was split on plans for an ethanol plant southeast of Farmington.

Redfield Energy, LLC celebrates the start-up of production at this South Dakotan-owned 50 million gallon per year ethanol biorefinery.

Cedar River Ethanol, LLC. has announced it will build a 110 million gallon ethanol plant to be built in Louisa County, IA.

Ohio State University researchers used microbe-rich fluid from a cow rumen to generate electricity in a new, small cellulose-based microbial fuel cell.

The University of Florida has selected Florida Crystals Corp’s Okeelanta facility in Palm Beach County as the site to build a cellulosic ethanol research and demonstration plant producing 1 to 2 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol annually.

A deadly explosion at the Farmers and Truckers Biodiesel manufacturing plant Tuesday killed 35-year-old Jason Karstedt of Augusta. He was working as a contracted welder at the plant. Georgia Environmental Protection Division has ordered Farmers and Truckers Biodiesel to clean up its act after finding an environmental threat on the property.

The Lindon (UT) City Council has revoked the business license of a biodiesel company, declaring its operation unsafe. The plant was the first of its kind in Utah, opening its biodiesel production in 2006. However, it had ceased operation in May because of safety concerns acknowledged by its own board of directors.

A state court has ruled that the construction of an ethanol plant at the former Seneca Army Depot in Romulus can move forward without an environmental impact statement.