Tuesday, February 09, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Southern California group has declined about $11 million in federal money that was earmarked to build ethanol fueling stations across the region. The Southern California Association of Governments rejected the stimulus funds Thursday. It says using more ethanol ...
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's administration recommended using more government money to produce and develop larger supplies of biofuels such as ethanol. The move came as an energy task force prepared to give Obama a report that predicted the United States would fall short of congressiona ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:09 AM
The coordinators of a rural energy development conference hope it will spark a variety of new opportunities for Western farmers. The 10th annual Harvesting Clean Energy Conference takes place Feb. 7- 9 at the Tri Cities Convention Center in Kennewick, Wash. Wind power is just the beg ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:08 AM
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A Senate committee has approved legislation that would establish ownership rights for the empty spaces that lie beneath New Mexico's dusty landscape. Supporters of the measure say the so-called pore space will be valuable as technology advances to capture and sto ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 3:49 PM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The federal Agriculture Department has issued a proposed rule for the next phase of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program championed by Sen. John Thune. The South Dakota Republican wrote the program, which was part of the 2008 Farm Bill. It makes payments to p ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 8:49 AM
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) -- Gov. Chris Gregoire has approved the Desert Claim wind farm project eight miles north of Ellensburg, following the recommendation of a state energy council. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports Desert Claim will have up to 95 turbines across eight square miles ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 8:49 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho Power Co. has filed a plan with the state's energy regulator detailing how it will meet growing customer demand over the next 20 years. The state's biggest utility says it intends to add 3,000 megawatts of power generated by a mix of natural gas, wind and g ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:08 AM
OLYMPIA -- Kevin Maas distributed quart-size bags of a dark, powdery substance to each member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Economic Development. "This is digested fiber, a by-product of an anaerobic digester," he said. "It has a mild odor." The senators sniffed and disa ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:08 AM
The Oregon Public Utility Commission cut in half a rate increase requested by PacifiCorp, but still allowed the utility to raise rates between 3.4 and 6.8 percent. Under the PUC-approved increase, the average residential monthly bill will increase $2.81, from $83.14 to $85.95. Commercial and in ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:08 AM
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- The nation's first plant that exclusively makes ethanol fuel from non-edible switchgrass and corncobs has its grand opening Friday. DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC and University of Tennessee-Genera Energy LLC will show off the 74,000-square-foot demonstratio ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010 1:08 PM
HALFWAY, Ore. (AP) -- A prototype plant in northeast Oregon has stoked hopes of dozens of jobs for workers turning wastes from forest thinning and chicken coops into soil amendments and fuel. Eric Twombly, a former U.S. Forest Service employee who heads the plant, said it could provide a mar ...
Monday, January 25, 2010 5:09 PM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A $10.5 million research project aimed at mapping the DNA sequence of sunflowers could one day yield a towering new variety for both food and fuel. Researchers envision crossbreeding a standard sunflower with the Silverleaf species out of Texas to produce a hybri ...
Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:07 AM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- The Northwest Power and Conservation Council has elected a Montana attorney has its chairman for this year. Bruce Measure, of Kalispell, is one of Montana's two members on the council. Measure has been the council vice chairman for the last two years. Measure sa ...
Friday, January 22, 2010 11:29 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. regulators are taking a first step toward reining in speculative trading in energy futures by Wall Street firms and other market players. At a public meeting Thursday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission discussed whether to propose new trade limits on the New ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 1:08 PM
BURLEY, Idaho (AP) -- A southern Idaho ethanol plant has resumed production after being shuttered for nearly a year. Pacific Ethanol Inc. announced Wednesday that its plant in Burley is up and running again. The company ceased operations in February 2009 amid falling corn prices and ...
Sunday, January 10, 2010 11:49 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- NorthWestern Energy told state lawmakers Friday that a Frenchtown linerboard plant soon to be shuttered by Smurfit-Stone Container could make a good location for a biomass energy production facility -- but no firm plans are in place. Northwestern Energy said entering ta ...
Sunday, January 10, 2010 11:49 AM
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Developers of a coal-to-liquid fuel factory proposed for western North Dakota say a decision on whether to build the $4 billion plant depends on a change in political climate. And backers are asking for a second extension of state aid to study the project. "We sti ...
Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:07 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The Montana Supreme Court has ordered the Public Service Commission to set rates at which a proposed wind-power project near Whitehall could sell its electricity to NorthWestern Energy. The 5-0 ruling said the PSC ignored its own rules by not setting a reasonable pri ...
Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:28 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon's largest utility is beginning its push to build a new gas-fired power plant in the northcentral part of the state, one of a host of investments Portland General Electric plans in the next five years. The utility hopes to address an energy supply shortfa ...
Saturday, January 09, 2010 8:48 AM
ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) -- A study found there would be no significant threat to marbled murrelets and other birds from the proposed Radar Ridge Wind Farm in Pacific County. KXRO reports the study will allow permitting work to continue on the project, a partnership of the Grays Harbor, Clallam, ...
Thursday, January 07, 2010 1:49 PM
The cost of filling up the car is rising in the wake of soaring crude and by this weekend, pump prices may race past the highs for all of 2009. Tracing the ascension of crude, up 14 percent since mid-December, energy prices across the board are catching up. It's part economic and par ...
Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:28 AM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Monday announced the routes it will analyze for a proposed power line from eastern Wyoming to western Idaho, setting aside some of the most contentious proposals. The BLM's draft environmental impact statement for the Gateway We ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:28 PM
BENSON, Minn. -- A southwest Minnesota ethanol company will buy more than just corn from farmers. It wants their cobs, too. Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company in Benson is using approximately 70 tons of corn cobs, wood and glycerin per day in their gasifier. They burn the gas for steam, whic ...
Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:09 AM
HUNTINGTON, Ore. (AP) -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved a proposal to install six wind turbines on land north of Huntington. Randy Joseph applied for a permit for the Lime Wind Project in June 2007. He is chairman of the Baker County planning commission and its renew ...
Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:29 PM
Slash piles left over from logging operations may turn into new sources of revenue for the timber industry. With the demand for renewable energy expected to rise, some timber companies are studying how to profitably turn woody logging waste into a feedstock for fuel or electricity product ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:04 AM
Hauling chipped forest slash to electricity-producing facilities isn't cheap. In fact, transportation is one of the main impediments to the material's use as a renewable energy feedstock. But removing the "fluff" from hog fuel could make it more efficient to move and improve profit margin ...
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