A South Dakota-based company is planning to build an ethanol plant just outside the northern Indiana town dubbed Biotown USA by state officials for a project aimed at using renewable sources to provide all its energy.
The White County commissioners are expected on Monday to consider a request to rezone about 270 acres to allow construction […]
Sugar fell to a three- month low Tuesday as tumbling prices for energy eroded the appeal of sugar cane, which is used to make ethanol — an alternative to gasoline.
The price of sugar fell 20 percent last year on speculation that global production would outpace demand. Crude oil fell Tuesday to its lowest level in […]
The head of BNSF Railway Co. has sent an engineering team to Montana to analyze a possible coal-to-liquids project to supply diesel to fuel-thirsty locomotives, Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Monday in Billings.
Matthew K. Rose, chairman, chief executive and president of BNSF, has expressed interest in producing diesel fuel with the coal-to-liquids process, which has been […]
The head of BNSF Railway Co. has sent an engineering team to Montana to analyze a possible coal-to-liquids project to supply diesel to fuel-thirsty locomotives, Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Monday in Billings.
Matthew K. Rose, chairman, chief executive and president of BNSF, has expressed interest in producing diesel fuel with the coal-to-liquids process, which has been […]
A new Cargill Inc. subsidiary announced plans Monday to build four ethanol plants in the Midwest, each with an annual capacity of 100 million gallons.
The plants will almost triple the ethanol production capacity Cargill directly owns, Cargill spokesman Bill Brady said. Combined with service agreements Cargill has with independently owned ethanol plants, they’ll give Cargill […]
Pomeroy announces proposal to extend wind energy tax credit WEST Fargo, N.D. (AP) Congressman Earl Pomeroy says he’s introducing legislation to extend the production tax credit for wind and other renewable energy projects until 2014.
Pomeroy says the wind energy industry has been disrupted when the tax credit expired three times since 1999. He’d like to […]
Utility crews worked to restore power to thousands of homes Monday after a fierce wind storm struck eastern Washington, toppling trees and tearing down power lines.
The wind on Sunday was clocked unofficially at 130 mph at the Mission Ridge ski area, about 12 miles southwest of Wenatchee.
Chelan County Public Utility District officials reported about 15,000 […]
BP Alternative Energy announced the acquisition of Orion Energy, LLC., increasing its renewable capacity and position in the wind industry.
With the newly acquired generating capacity, the BP subsidiary based in Texas will increase its North American wind portfolio and gain the opportunity to develop almost 100 projects with a total potential generating capacity of about […]
Magic Valley is going green. Or yellow, to be more specific.
Two out-of-state companies plan to build corn-based ethanol plants near Burley.
Pacific Ethanol Inc., a California alternative-energy company, and Renova Energy, a London-based energy company, plan to open ethanol facilities in southern Idaho within the next 18 months.
City officials and area farmers are thrilled, and they […]
A Malaysian company is building what it says is the world’s first plant to commercially produce ethanol from nipah palm trees, with the product aimed mainly for export to countries looking for alternatives to gasoline, its chairman said Saturday.
Pioneer Bio Industries Corp. Sdn. Bhd. said it is building the plant in northern Perak state to […]