Feed The Grid

With the G8 summit underway, the UK biofuel supply chain is calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to use the opportunity of the G8 meetings to address the multiple causes of global hunger, and not simply blame the biofuel industry. Industry spokesperson Clare Wenner said that the European Commission estimates that bioethanol production constituted only 3 per cent of total cereal use in 2010/2011

Rurelec (LON:RUR) has received a US$7.2mln loan to finalise the construction of the Canchayllo hydroelectric project in Peru, which is on course to start production early in 2014. The funds are coming from the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), ...

One factor that could significantly reduce the sugar surplus would be a major shift in Brazil toward production of ethanol from sugarcane, but such a shift would require the price of ethanol to rise substantially from current levels. Analysts at London-based ...

Ethanol gained versus gasoline on concern that lower production of the biofuel will keep stockpiles near record lows.

They used battery power in two test flightss and plan to move to a hydrogen fuel cell and then liquid hydrogen. The university says hydrogen-powered craft are more environmentally friendly than those powered by fossil fuels since the only waste product is ...

He tells The News-Gazette in Champaign ( http://bit.ly/11K9FJe) that the former base could host a biofuel production facility or be a location for growing and selling produce. The base closed in 1993. That hurt the local economy by taking away thousands of ...

That means that its first production hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle is now on the roads, albeit at low planned volumes (like most fuel-cell cars). Hyundai says it will build 1,000 of the hydrogen-fueled compact crossover by 2015, at its Ulsan factory in South Korea.

"The company has set up its second wind power plant at Ludarva in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, with a capacity of 47.6 MW. A part of the project has been commissioned. Power production has commenced from 18 wind energy generators," an official statement said ...

Fortum's new biofuel-fired plant has been commissioned in Järvenpää, Finland. The plant utilises biofuels to produce district heat for about 34,000 residents in Tuusula and Järvenpää as well as electricity for the national grid. The plant's annual production is ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemical engineers have devised a cheaper way to synthesize a key biofuel component, which could make its industrial production much more cost effective. The compound, known as gamma-valerolactone (GVL), ...

MIT chemical engineers have devised a cheaper way to synthesize a key biofuel component, which could make its industrial production much more cost-effective.

CREST is a suite of four analytic tools, for solar (photovoltaic and solar thermal), wind, geothermal, and anaerobic digestion technologies. The model is a product of a 2009-2010 partnership between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the ...

At its peak, the unit, known as Siemens Concentrated Solar Power, had 400 employees. The remaining 50 employees will provide technical support services for a Spanish project, ... In late 2012, Siemens announced that it was quitting the solar energy business, which in addition to thermosolar energy (which included production by the Beit Shemesh plant), included the planning and construction of photovoltaic solar fields

As the country's implementation of biofuels policy trails its seventh year, the Department of Energy (DOE) now sees the necessity to revise the standards being set for ethanol as blend to gasoline products.