08/25/2009 09:15AM
PowerPellets Burn Like Coal; Ship and Store Like Grain
05/21/2009 03:01PM
AURORA, S.D. (AP) — Valero began its move to corn country like any new neighbor would.
It grilled up some burgers and brats.
Executives from the big, Texas oil refiner traveled this week through farmlands from South Dakota to Iowa, trying to soothe the nerves of farmers that will supply their new
04/22/2009 09:34AM
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Exelon Corp. (EXC) and SunPower Corp. (SPWRA) said Wednesday that the companies will develop the largest urban solar power plant in the U.S. at a former industrial site on Chicago's South Side.
The Exelon deal comes as several utilities expand their solar energy portfolios in
04/09/2009 07:14AM
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--An ethanol oversupply will continue through the year's end, even if Aventine Renewable Energy Inc. (AVRN) shutters its plants while it tries to reorganize under bankruptcy protection.
Aventine filed for protection under Chapter 11 late Tuesday, following nearly a dozen other
04/06/2009 08:07AM
FORT DODGE, Iowa - Less than a month after assuring their workers that none would be laid off, corn producer Tate & Lyle has announced it will cut more than half of its workforce at its plant west of Fort Dodge. Spokesman Chris Olsen says 56 of the plant's 90 employees have been laid off. Twenty
03/04/2009 01:32PM
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Second-generation biofuels company Range Fuels has formed a strategic relationship with Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), to help bring online the first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant in the United States.
Range Fuels selected Emerson
02/23/2009 11:22AM
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) announced today that its members have launched a campaign to communicate public outrage and opposition to the Valero bid to acquire the assets of bankrupted independent Ethanol producer VeraSun
02/23/2009 09:03AM
BEIJING (Dow Jones)--Canada's Husky Energy Inc. (HSE.T) Monday said it would soon begin developing the Liwan field in the South China Sea after an appraisal well confirmed a major natural gas discovery.
Husky said the appraisal well flowed at a restricted rate of 53 million cubic feet a day, bolstering
02/19/2009 11:30AM
VeraSun Energy Corp. (VSUNQ) won court approval Thursday to hold a March 16 bankruptcy auction that will lead to the breakup of one of the country's largest biofuel producers.
Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) will open the bidding on five of VeraSun's ethanol plants with an offer of $280 million, under rules