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April 24, 2006
Senate hearing, 4/26/06
http://agriculture.senate.gov/Hearings/hearings.cfm?hearingId=1850
Senate Agriculture Committee scheduled a hearing on the state of the biofuels industry for Wednesday, April 26 at 10:00 a.m. The location is Russell, Room 328A.
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April 07, 2006
Clean Energy Markets to Quadruple by 2015
http://www.eere.energy.gov/financing/news_detail.html/news_id=9831
Clean energy markets grew to $40 billion in 2005 and are poised to expand fourfold to $167 billion by 2015, according to a new report from Clean Edge, Inc. "Clean Energy Trends 2006" examines biofuels, wind power, solar photovoltaic systems, and the fuel cell and distributed hydrogen markets, and predicts rapid growth for each.
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Financial Opportunities for Inventors
http://www.eere.energy.gov/financing/inventors.html
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has funding available to small businesses and individual inventors who are developing energy efficiency or renewable energy technologies.
Posted by Kate Hayes at 03:44 PM | Comments (0)
Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy
http://www.dsireusa.org/
The Department of Energy's Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and selected federal incentives that promote renewable energy.
Posted by Kate Hayes at 03:35 PM | Comments (0)
Funding Opp: Commercial Demonstration of Biorefinery System
http://www.eere.energy.gov/financing/solicitation_detail.html/sol_id=102
Department of Energy announced a funding opportunity for cooperative agreements and requests applications to design, construct, build, and operate an integrated biorefinery that employs lignocellulosic feedstocks for the production of combinations of: liquid transportation fuels; bio-based chemicals; substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks and products; and energy in the form of electricity or useful heat.
Posted by Kate Hayes at 03:29 PM | Comments (0)
April 06, 2006
Ethanol Feedstock From Citrus Peel Waste
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/apr06/citrus0406.htm
With the recent wild fluctuations in gasoline prices, there’s renewed interest in finding a cheaper way to fill up the gas tank. Citrus waste materials may be a solution. They are rich in pectin, cellulose, and hemicellulosic polysaccharides, which can be hydrolyzed into sugars and fermented into alcohol.
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DOE/USDA SBIR Energy Summit
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/sbir/sbir_summit.html
DOE/USDA SBIR Energy Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) in Tennessee, July 6-7, 2006. The event will provide a forum to help engage the small business community in the development of renewable energy technologies.
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