Wood Bioenergy | a Hatton-Brown publication

A recent news report in agricultural website Capital Press says that timber companies need to be cautious when considering getting into the biomass business, according to expert Gareth Mayhead, academic coordinator for forest products at University of California-Berkeley. According to Mayhead, gasification and other liquid fuels technologies are not yet proven and are currently unfeasible for use [...]

ClearFuels Technology, based in Hawaii, has partnered with Hughes Hardwood to build a biorefinery in Collinwood, Tennessee, which will produce diesel, naphtha, and electricity using wood products.  The project is projected to break ground in 2011 and open in 2013 or 2014.  Once open, it is planned to employ 50 workers.
ClearFuels has plans to develop [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will decide by late summer whether to allow higher levels of ethanol to be blended into standard transportation gasoline, the head of the agency recently reported. The EPA is considering an industry request for a waiver from federal rules to allow gasoline to contain up to 15% ethanol. EPA administrator [...]

In a report published the end of February, the European Commission’s energy department has confirmed there will be no EU effort—yet—to develop regulations concerning standards for biomass origin and sustainability, though the issue of “sustainability criteria” would be reviewed in 2011. The issue was hotly debated last year during Commission meetings.
The report stated that EU [...]