Bioenergy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.comRenewable Energy News Headlines provided by RenewableEnergyWorld.com - the leading online publisher of renewable energy news and information world-wide.PetroAlgae Acquired by PetroTech- September 22, 2008 PetroAlgae LLC has announced that it was acquired in the middle of August by PetroTech Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation that is a joint venture of a group of accredited investors managed by New York based Valens Capital Management.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53636&src=rss State-Level Policies Work; Utilities and States Issue RFPs for Renewable Energy- September 22, 2008 In an effort to diversify their generation portfolios, electric utilities across the U.S. have issued requests for proposals (RFPs) for renewable energy projects. One of the main reasons that these have been issued is that utilities are pushing to meet state-level renewable portfolio standards (RPS), also known as renewable electricity standards.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53608&src=rss Oglethorpe Power To Build Biomass Facilities- September 19, 2008 Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) announced plans to build as many as three 100-megawatt (MW) biomass electric generating facilities in Georgia. Designed to utilize woody biomass, one of the state's most abundant renewable resources, the power plants will be carbon-neutral and provide power to OPC's 38 member cooperatives, which supply electricity to nearly half of Georgia's population.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53622&src=rss China Recycling Wins 7-MW Waste-to-Energy Project- September 19, 2008 China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG) announced that it has won a contract to recycle waste gas and waste heat into electricity for China Zhonggang Binhai Enterprise Ltd. at a facility in Cangzhou City, China.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53626&src=rss Mexico's President Applauds Landfill Gas Plant- September 19, 2008 Earlier this week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon toured Monterrey's newly expanded landfill gas-to-energy project where he praised GE Energy's Jenbacher gas engine power plant as "a model renewable energy project" for Latin America.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53624&src=rss Cleantech Investments Counter Environmental Deficits- September 19, 2008 Today, in this mostly urbanized society, over 1 billion people live without clean drinking water. As grain prices continue to rise, hundreds of millions of others barely have enough money to pay for food. Meanwhile, global oil production may have peaked, atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions are reaching alarming levels and there are billions of emerging middle-class workers in developing nations who are getting turned on to American-style consumerism.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53621&src=rss POET CEO to speak at United Nations Forum- September 18, 2008 The CEO of POET, the largest producer of biofuels in the world, will take part in a Private Sector Forum at the United Nations on September 24. The event at the UN will bring together business leaders, Heads of State, civil society and Heads of UN Agencies for a dialogue on the UN's Millennium Development Goals and Food Sustainability.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53617&src=rss R-Board Landfill Gas Project Produces Power- September 18, 2008 The Rappahannock Regional Solid Waste Management Board (R-Board) has officially opened a new renewable energy facility at its landfill. The new facility generates 2.14 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy by using the landfill gas generated by decomposing waste at the landfill.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53612&src=rss UK To Form Office for Renewable Energy Deployment- September 18, 2008 As part of a government strategy for the UK's manufacturing sector a new Office for Renewable Energy Deployment will be established to address barriers to renewables deployment, including helping to develop the UK supply chain.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53609&src=rss House Passes Renewable Tax Credit Bill, Senate Version Could Soon Follow- September 17, 2008 Late last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6899, a bill that contains extensions for the Production and Investment Tax Credits (PTC and ITC) for renewable energy, by a vote of 236-189.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53601&src=rss |