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KiOR signs second offtake agreement for renewable gasoline and diesel blendstocks

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This is the second offtake agreement KiOR has signed for its Columbus, MS, facility, having announced an agreement with Hunt Refining Company in March of 2011. KiOR expects to begin production at its Columbus facility in the second half of 2012. Earlier post.)

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AEP Signs on as Corporate Sponsor of Pickens’ Energy Plan

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American Electric Power has signed on as a corporate sponsor of The Pickens Plan, proposed by oil and gas industry veteran T. Extra-high voltage transmission is necessary to transport renewable energy from where it is most viable to the nation’s population centers. AEP’s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio. Boone Pickens.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. General Motors Corporation. Bristol, TN Columbus, GA. General Motors Corporation. KEMET Corporation.

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DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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The chosen awards were selected as the best projects to stimulate the design and demonstration of a comprehensive system to handle the harvesting, collection, preprocessing, transport, and storage of sufficient volumes of sustainably produced feedstocks. of Columbus, Ohio (up to $4.9 Auburn University of Auburn, Alabama (up to $4.9

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DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation (Columbus, OH) up to $1,800,000: to demonstrate, at scale, the operation of a dry fermentation system that uses pre- and post-consumer food wastes from supermarkets and restaurants, waste sawdust, grass, leaves, stumps and other forms of wood waste to produce biogas, heat, and electrical power.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Account for the entire quantity of CO 2 that has been transported to geologic storage sites. Schlumberger Carbon Services , Columbus, Ohio. West Virginia University Research Corporation , Morgantown, W.V. Battelle Memorial Institute , Columbus, Ohio. Verify the location of CO 2 that has been placed in geologic storage.

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Rentech Planning to Build Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Electric Power Plant in California

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The low carbon footprint of RenDiesel would help the transportation sector meet targets established by the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Rentech has entered into a licensing agreement with SilvaGas Corporation for biomass gasification technology for the Rialto facility. Product gas is cleaned in a scrubber.