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| ADM still investing in biobased projects |
March 2009 news. "A report from the Decatur, Illinois newspaper Herald & Review said that Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) will delay some of the completion dates for their biobased industrial projects but will still invest $2.6bn in seven major capital projects." |
Innovative Biomass Energy Project to Begin Regulatory Review Process in Wisconsin |
A Business Wire news article on December 19, 2008, about Xcel Energy, which runs the Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland, WI, and their request to install biomass gasification technology in the Bay Front Power Plant. |
| Biofuel Center Moving to Ladysmith |
News article from late August 2008 that a biofuels center in Ladysmith will be opened by Indeck Energy Services and Midwest Forest Products of Hayward Wisconsin. |
| Ethanol plant courted behind closed doors: Since lawsuit, Milton officials pledge openness, pdf |
March 18, 2008 article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Summary: A United Ethanol plant was built on the eastern outskirts of Milton, WI, in March 2007. The city negotiated with the company to have the plant built in 2004 and 2005, but United Ethanol may have broke the law by holding closed development meetings for the plant. Now, groups are fighting the company and its secrecy. |
| After ambitious beginning, BioTown renewable anergy push loses some steam |
March 2008 AP article out of Reynolds, Ind. The story of the rise and plateau of a small town in Indiana as the first U.S. community to "meet all electricity and gas needs through renewable energy by using everything from farm waste to sewage." It was just a concept in 2005 and now the town is learning their goal is difficult to reach. |
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| The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: 2008-09 Rankings Published by Biofuels Digest |
Included in the 08-09 rankings for the 50 hottest companies in bioenergy is #3 Virent Energy Systems.
UPDATE 6/2/09 NYTimes.com: Competing Technologies Push to Commericalize Renewable Petroleum |
| Tech Pioneers: The Transformers - Randy Cortright |
End of the year 2008 science award by the World Economic Forum includes Dr. Randy Cortright, a scientist affiliated with the University of Wisconsin and Virent Energy Systems and inventor of bioforming, a new catalytic technique for converting biomass materials into fuels.
Story from Wisconsin Technology News: Virent Energy Systems named a technology pioneer by World Economic Forum |
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