Biofuels

An amendment that would allow companies that are majority-owned by venture capital firms to apply for Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer grants is on its way to the U. S. House Small Business Committee. The measure has some worried that these grants will...

Ethanol production in Wisconsin and beyond should get a boost from the pending addition to Agra Industries, a Merrill-based builder of ethanol and other facilities. Agra will break ground on the addition early in October, with completion scheduled by the end of 2006....

The focus of Wisconsin's biodiesel production may still be the southern third of the state, but northeastern Wisconsin can boast of its own biofuel contribution. That capacity got a shot in the arm with the awarding of a $97,500 state grant to ramp up the...

Ethanol producers in Wisconsin and elsewhere have become attractive acquisition targets for investors, but should they sell? Geoffrey Morgan and Greg Lynch, attorneys and partners at the Wisconsin law firm Michael Best & Friedrich, recommend establishing long-term objectives and carefully examining five options. ...

A modest Renewable Fuels Standard was established in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and two Wisconsin politicians have endorsed a Congressional effort to raise it. During a visit to West Salem, Gov. Jim Doyle and Congressman Ron Kind stumped to place higher alternative fuel...

North Prairie Productions, LLC, has chosen a site in Evansville for a new biodiesel production facitily that is projected to generate more than $127 million in annual revenue and create more than 100 jobs. A synergistic add-on could eventually come in the form of a...

As part of Wisconsin's push for energy independence, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection has awarded a $60,000 grant to research the feasibility of creating a mobile processor unit that would turn oilseeds into bio-diesel fuel and animal feed....

The United States Departments of Energy and Agriculture have awarded several educational institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with grants to study the use of woody plant tissue in the development of alternative fuels. ...

First, Mark Green suggests a tax holiday for back-to-school supplies. Then Gov. Jim Doyle suspends enforcement of the state's minimum markup law for ethanol purchases. Green, however, fell short of suggesting the total elimination of the minimum markup law, a move that is likely to...