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Next Step debuts corn stover pellets
After a series of rigorous operational and burn characteristic assessments, Nebraska-based Next Step Biofuels is ready to move their corn stover pellets into marketplace, and told Biomass Magazine negotiations are underway with several Midwest power utilities for supply contracts to begin next year.
California company sees potential in its miscanthus trials
California-based Mendel Biotechnology Inc. has more than 2,000 varieties of miscanthus under development on several different plots and hopes to have significant plantings for biomass power generation in the next two to four years.
Groundbreaking cellulosic biofuel technology moves toward commercialization
The Energy & Environmental Research Center Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corp., headquartered in Bellingham, Wash., are poised to commercialize a novel and groundbreaking cellulosic biofuel technology developed at the EERC at the University of North Dakota. Whole Energy is receiving global, exclusive licensing rights to EERC Foundation’s technology, which converts biomass and other recycled material into liquid biofuels.
Opposition to biomass power in Mass. spurs study, suspension of RPS approval
Broad opposition to biomass power in Massachusetts has prompted the state to commission a study to determine woody biomass’s sustainability and carbon neutrality as an energy generating feedstock. Furthermore, the state Department of Energy Resources has suspended all consideration of new biomass power for participation in the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program until the study is concluded.
