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A California-based company recently announced that it has created gasoline using a giant miscanthus variety developed at Mississippi State University (MSU)....More

Perennial grasses, such as miscanthus, will be studied at the March 8 Biomass Crop Production Workshop, to be held at Southwestern Community College in Creston, IA....More

Poet, LLC, has formed a joint venture to commercially demonstrate and license cellulosic bio-ethanol with Royal DSM, a global science-based company. Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels, LLC, is set to start production sometime in the second half of 2013 to produce cellulosic ethanol from corn crop residue using enzymatic hydrolysis, followed by fermentation....More

Heat, power – and cellulosic ethanol – all are potential uses of giant miscanthus, say researchers....More

Research on switchgrass isn't confined to its biofuel potential; scientists and growers are finding multiple uses for the perennial....More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants cellulosic biofuel producers to turn out 8.65 million gallons next year, significantly more than in 2011 but far less than Congress mandated four years ago....More

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded funding to Mascoma, a New Hampshire renewable fuels company, to help design, build and operate a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Kinross, MI. It will convert hardwood pulp into ethanol....More

Oregon State University study argues that biofuels would barely reduce fossil-fuel use....More

Now that I've baled it, I'm not scared of it anymore, says Clay Dell, who harvested switchgrass last fall for Genera Energy's cellulosic ethanol pilot...More

Cellulosic ethanol is being hailed as the biofuel that will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90%, reduce U.S. dependence of foreign oil and won’t take prime ag land away from food production....More

With the prices growers can get for alfalfa, you'd think it wouldn't be considered as a potential biomass crop. Yet university and USDA researchers see...More