enXco has purchased a pair of wood Pinelands Biomass Project energy plants that are under construction from Southeast Renewable Energy LLC (SRE).

enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, has closed on the purchase of the Pinelands Biomass Project from Southeast Renewable Energy, LLC (SRE).

ATILBURY, ENGLAND - massive fire shut down what is billed as the largest wood biomass power station in Europe on Monday morning. (Includes video of the blaze.)

LUDWISGHAFEN, GERMANY - BASF is investing $30 million in the U.S technology firm Renmatix Inc., which has patterned a process to cost effectively produce industrial sugar from lignocellulosic biomass including wood, cane trash and straw.

WASHINGTON -- A financial commitment of $232.5 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assist the development of the ZeaChem Boardman Biorefinery in Boardman, OR, comes with strings attached.

LONGMONT, CO -- Sundrop Fuels Inc. has selected Rapides Parish, LA, as the site of its first gasification plant to produce gasoline from forest waste.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Departments of Agirculture and Energy, joined by the U.S. Navy, have jointly issued a Request for Information (RFI) to develop a public-private partnership to develop commercially viable drop-in advanced biofuels.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the creation of four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) project areas in six states to expand the availability of non-food crops to be used in the manufacturing of liquid biofuels.

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development recently issued a $75 million loan guarantee to support construction of a waste-to-energy bioprocessing facility in Vero Beach, Fla., that will produce up to 8 million gallons per year of cellulosic ethanol and create an estimated 380 new jobs.

WASHINGTON -- Growing hybrid poplar trees in Oregon is among four new initiatives of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP), announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)..