Copyright 2006 RenewableEnergyWorld.com Renewable Energy News Headlines provided by RenewableEnergyWorld.com - the leading online publisher of renewable energy news and information world-wide. http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com en-us editor@RenewableEnergyWorld.com support@RenewableEnergyWorld.com http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=53006&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=53006&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=53006&src=rss#readercomments The City of Saco, Maine has been chosen as an Environmental Hero and designated as the Venue for the first annual Maine Going Green Energy, Building & Living Expo. Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52997&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52997&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52997&src=rss#readercomments The British Columbia (BC) Sustainable Energy Association has rolled out a project called Clean Energy Classrooms. The project features a two-part directory to all of Canada's currently available training and education options in renewable energy. It is run by Renewable Recruits, a green energy promotions and recruiting firm. Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52989&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52989&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52989&src=rss#readercomments A vote by the ASTM International's D02 Main Committee has approved a trio of ASTM specifications for biodiesel blends. ASTM has voted to approve three sets of biodiesel specifications that should significantly bolster automaker support and consumer demand for biodiesel. Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52988&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52988&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52988&src=rss#readercomments VeraSun Energy Corp. announced that it will delay the startup of its 110 million-gallon-per-year (MMGY) ethanol production facility in Hankinson, North Dakota. The Hankinson biorefinery marks the third VeraSun facility that has delayed startup operations this month due to market conditions, joining other 110-MMGY plants in Welcome, Minnesota and Hartley, Iowa. Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52978&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52978&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52978&src=rss#readercomments Novozymes has selected Blair, Nebraska as the location for its new ethanol production plant. Novozymes expects to break ground in late 2008 with operations beginning in late 2010. The investment is expected to be between US $80 and $100 million. Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52973&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52973&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52973&src=rss#readercomments It is human nature to resist change when such a change involves anything else but known and desired results. We see evidence of this all around us, even in the U.S. Congress. When it comes to getting off of petroleum-based fuels, Congress has dragged its feet for decades. While special interest money no doubt also encouraged this foot dragging, we have now reached a point where the world is in an undeniable oil crisis. Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52944&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52944&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52944&src=rss#readercomments The line of exotic and sophisticated sports cars in the American Le Mans Series all have ethanol coursing through their veins, as do the 240 mph missiles that thrill the country at Indianapolis every year. Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52969&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52969&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52969&src=rss#readercomments The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solicitation for up to $10 billion in federal loan guarantees for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. This marks the second round of solicitations for DOE's Loan Guarantee Program, which encourages the commercial use of new or significantly improved energy technologies. Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52960&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52960&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52960&src=rss#readercomments Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. Using these lands for energy crops, instead of converting existing croplands or clearing new land, avoids competition with food production and preserves carbon-storing forests needed to mitigate climate change. Sustainable bioenergy is likely to satisfy no more than 10% of the demand in the energy-intensive economies of North America, Europe and Asia. But for some developing countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa, the potential exists to supply many times their current energy needs without compromising food supply or destroying forests. Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52958&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52958&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52958&src=rss#readercomments With millions of Americans expected to gas-up and head out for the July 4th weekend, producers of sugarcane ethanol want drivers to know that there is an alternative to continued increases in fuel prices. The "Are We There Yet?" campaign will introduce Americans to a lower-cost, higher efficiency fuel, ethanol derived from sugarcane and call on Congress to lift the tariff that artificially inflates the price of cane ethanol. Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52948&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52948&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52948&src=rss#readercomments Renewable Energy Group (REG) has received regulatory approval to complete the previously announced acquisition of a biodiesel production facility in Houston, Texas and a liquid storage terminal in California. Construction of the biodiesel facility is complete and REG has slated biodiesel production to begin on July 7. Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52941&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52941&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52941&src=rss#readercomments The U.S. now imports more than 60% of its oil. With oil topping $140 a barrel this week, we are now endangering our economy, national security and health with our addiction to oil. Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52938&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52938&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52938&src=rss#readercomments Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52933&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52933&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52933&src=rss#readercomments Ecolab Inc.'s Ecovation division has announced the installation and start-up of its proprietary whole stillage treatment system at the Maker's Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky. Ecovation collaborated with Maker's Mark to design, build and operate the waste stream treatment system that will enable the Maker's Mark Distillery to significantly recycle its waste stream and generate renewable energy. Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52931&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52931&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52931&src=rss#readercomments The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently publicized practices that it claims are illegal under its complex system for documenting compliance with the Renewable Fuel Standard. The system requires obligated parties to establish that they have purchased sufficient Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), which are generated by the sale of renewable fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol. The EPA notice suggests that some RIN market participants' efforts to correct clerical errors in their RIN transactions may be creating additional civil exposure. Properly documenting RIN transactions has been a source of substantial concern to producers, marketers and purchasers of renewable fuels. The EPA's recent notice probably exacerbates those concerns for past transactions but does provide some useful guidance for future transactions. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52920&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52920&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52920&src=rss#readercomments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52916&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52916&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52916&src=rss#readercomments Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Mascoma Corporation CEO Bruce Jamerson announced that Mascoma has entered into a series of key strategic relationships to further its efforts to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Mascoma's single-step cellulose-to-ethanol method, called consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, uses advanced technologies to make ethanol from non-food based renewable sources such as wood chips and other biomass. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52914&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52914&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52914&src=rss#readercomments The UK government has set out a national renewable energy blueprint designed to slash carbon emissions and reduce dependency on oil and gas. UK Business Secretary John Hutton outlined the proposals that are likely to include up to a third of electricity coming from renewable sources as well as significant increases in the use of renewable forms of heat and transport fuels last week. The blueprint is designed to help meet the UK's anticipated 15% renewable energy target by 2020, an increase of 1000% on current levels. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52906&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52906&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52906&src=rss#readercomments Germany's RWE Innogy has laid the foundation stone for a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant at the Wittgenstein inter-municipal industry park, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein. The developer of the plant is RWE Innogy Cogen GmbH, a subsidiary of RWE Innogy. The plant's rated output will be approximately 30 MW of thermal energy and 8 MW of electricity. Production should commence in autumn 2009. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52899&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52899&src=rss http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52899&src=rss#readercomments U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) on Wednesday tackled head-on the question of whether Congress can mandate electricity prices with the introduction of legislation that would set "feed-in" tariffs to motivate the development and purchase of more renewable sources of electric power. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500