Milner went onto say that TMO Renewables had just completed commissioning the UK's first demonstration - scale
cellulosic ethanol facility, after nearly a year of construction.
BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced that it has finalized and signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its planned
cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS.. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ), for a fixed price of $ 296 million which includes an approximately $ 100 million biomass power plant as part of the facility.
And finally on the renewable fuels side, it includes a $ 20 million program to build
a cellulosic ethanol facility to create the first pilot - plant (we hope) that will produce ethanol from woody biomass as opposed to corn, and thereby drastically raising the energy balance of the ethanol.
IRVINE, Calif. and MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 27 — BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE.ob — News), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced a contract with Cooper Marine & Timberlands to provide feedstock for BlueFire's planned
cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Later this year the company is scheduled to finish a $ 200 million - plus
facility in Nevada, Iowa, that will produce 30 million gallons of
cellulosic ethanol using corn residue from nearby farms.
«Cost competitive, energy responsible
cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass or from forestry waste like sawdust and wood chips requires a more complex refining process but it's worth the investment,» Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the Range Fuels
facility groundbreaking in November.
Cellulose is difficult to break down and ferment, but several
facilities in the United States are on the verge of making commercial
cellulosic ethanol — for example, by using specialist enzymes to break down the long - chain cellulose molecules — and Brazil doesn't want to be left behind.
While
ethanol, for example derived from corn but distilled in a
facility powered by coal was, in fact, on average worse, than gasoline, some of the envisioned
cellulosic - based biofuels could be dramatically better on a g CO2 eq / MJ basis.
The one
facility that produced
cellulosic ethanol RINs in 2012 has already gone bankrupt.
Such biomass, or
cellulosic,
ethanol is now likely to see commercial production begin first in a
facility of the Canadian company, Iogen, with backing from Shell Oil, at a cost of around $ 1.30 / gallon.
If all of those
cellulosic facilities that you have been talking about for years had delivered we would be swimming in
cellulosic ethanol.