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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 Financing challenges. billion gallons/year of capacity. (In Earlier post.).

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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1): “Anytime you have a growing crop out there in the winter that is receiving relatively little nutrient input, it’s going to be positive,” says University of Maryland’s Coale [Frank Coale, the chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Technology]. Longer term, OBE expects to have as many as four plants in the Mid-Atlantic.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Moreover, developers must show that the project would make no economic sense without CDM funds and that documentation exists to demonstrate that these factors were considered by the company’s board of directors in their decision to pursue CDM financing. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link].

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “[I] They couldn’t tell the difference between a bright day at the beach and being in a coal mine in Pittsburgh. I never have any regrets about doing this.” Jeroen Perk.

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Europe moves forward on the Energy Union; transport key element

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Today, we launch the most ambitious European energy project since the Coal and Steel Community. The Commission will develop a Smart Financing for Smart Buildings initiative to make existing buildings more energy-efficient, facilitating access to existing funding instruments.

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ChargePoint’s roadmap: EV charging 80% home/work, 20% public/fast, “virtual batteries” for utilities

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EVs with more than 200 miles of range will accelerate already rapid EV sales growth, and are expected to reach 35% of global new car sales by 2040, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Or they maintain coal-fueled backup generators that can be fired up quickly. But these approaches are either costly, polluting, or both.

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