Friday, November 20, 2009
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, says it is has reduced its cellulosic ethanol production cost during the past year from $4.13 per gallon to $2.35 per gallon. The Sioux Falls-based company plans to produce 25 million gallons of ethanol each year from p ...
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JASPER, Ind. (AP) -- Cool, wet fall weather that's caused mold to appear in some of Indiana's corn crop is now creating problems for livestock and ethanol producers. Mold, which is present in much of the Midwest this year, can produce toxins that can reduce livestock weight and value beca ...
Monday, November 16, 2009 2:19 PM
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- With the wet grain being harvested in South Dakota this year comes another problem: a spike in the demand for propane to dry it. Wet grain must be dried before it can be stored or mold will form. Some Yankton-area farmers are trying to avoid elevator drying cos ...
Monday, November 16, 2009 2:04 PM
As legislators huddle over the fine points of renewable energy, carbon credits and climate change, a Northwest energy company has moved the ball down the field a little farther. Teaming up with eight Montana sawmills, forest landowners and the Montana Community Development Corp., NorthW ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:03 AM
A federal grant totaling $350,000 will help boost energy efficiency at some Idaho potato and sugar beet processing plants. The U.S. Department of Energy grant will benefit several J.R. Simplot Co. potato processing plants in the state and the Amalgamated Sugar Co. processing plant at Namp ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:03 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project because he says it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs. The U.S.-China venture, ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:33 AM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is notifying developers of its expectations for wildlife protections during the construction and operation of wind farms. The department this week released its draft recommendations for collecting data and evaluating wind developmen ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:18 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were told, an investigation by The ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:49 AM
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Uni-Chem, the South Korean company that wants to start making solar cells in the Hynix plant in west Eugene, is just the latest in a string of foreign companies that are coming to Oregon to seek their solar fortune. A half-dozen solar companies, including firms ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:34 AM
WIMER, Ore. -- Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient. Besides the 40-some dwarf Nigerian goats they milk to make artisanal cheeses, they also raise chickens for meat and eggs, a steer for beef, horses to ride and vegetables ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:34 AM
The Klamath Off-Project Water Users group faced off against PacifiCorp over electricity rates in the Oregon Court of Appeals on Tuesday, Oct. 27. The group, which represents irrigators outside the Klamath Project, alleged that in 2006 the power utility increased electricity rates in viola ...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:23 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The rows of white turbines spinning over wheat fields and ridgelines in eastern Oregon are ample evidence that renewable energy from wind is real and growing. So much so that the aging network of transmission lines and power stations that carries energy around the regi ...
Sunday, November 01, 2009 2:03 PM
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- Lawmakers from many Western states agreed Monday that they should consider collaborating on developing technology to capture and store the carbon gas that's generated from burning fossil fuels. The state of Wyoming invited lawmakers from around the West to Jacks ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:34 AM
AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- The Power County Commission has approved an ordinance that helps clear the way for wind power developers. The new ordinance requires that each turbine be issued a building permit and a single use permit is required for the entire project. The Idaho State Journ ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:19 AM
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- An environmental consultant hired by developers of a proposed West Virginia wind farm told a federal judge he believes the project won't harm the endangered Indiana bat. Consultant Russ Romme performed risk assessments for the proposed windfarm. He testified F ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:33 AM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- Canada's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal brought by an Alberta landowner group that challenged the construction of a 214-mile power line expected to carry wind-generated electricity between central Montana and its northern neighbor. The court awarded ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:33 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The Glacier Wind Farm in north-central Montana has almost doubled its power generating capacity to 210 megawatts under a recent expansion. Representatives of NaturEner, the Spanish company that developed the wind farm, joined Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Wednesday t ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:03 AM
Looking to save money by reducing energy and water costs on your farm, but have no idea where to start? You're not alone, says Julie Davis O'Shea, executive director of Farmers Conservation Alliance, an Oregon nonprofit organization. To help landowners "navigate the sea of incentives," t ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:04 PM
HONOLULU (AP) -- Kauai Island Utility Cooperative has agreed to buy electricity from a new 20-megawatt power plant that burns both sugar cane and wood. The utility and Pacific West Energy LLC announced Wednesday that the purchases will begin by April 2012. The biomass-to-energy plant ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:49 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge has overturned water quality rules that were meant to protect southeastern Montana cropland from natural gas drilling but were assailed by Wyoming as a threat to energy production. The rules covered the Tongue and Powder rivers, which flow north from t ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:49 AM
MILBANK, S.D. (AP) -- Some crop dusters have asked local officials to require markings on the wind measurement towers put up ahead of planned wind farm projects to keep the towers from blending in with the landscape. Flying 140 mph at low altitudes in a small airplane carries numerous danger ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:03 AM
GRANGEVILLE, Idaho (AP) -- Northcentral Idaho leaders say they've been contacted by a pair of wind-energy companies over the past year that are scouting the region for gusty grounds. Idaho County Commission members says Northwest Renewable Resources of Oregon and French-owned Ridgeli ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:48 AM
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) -- Officials like an Olympia man's proposal to build a plant in Longview that would turn wood waste into a hot gas to generate electricity and produce ethanol. The state Department of Commerce selected Marc Rappaport for a $1.5 low-interest loan from federal stim ...
Saturday, October 10, 2009 2:48 PM
ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) -- Solar power is delivering water to cattle on a farm near Arlington and keeping the animals and their waste out of a salmon stream. A pump run by a battery and solar panel sends water from Eagle Creek into troughs for 50 cattle belonging to Vernon Beach. Fences keep the ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:49 PM
DENVER (AP) -- New global investment in clean-energy companies fell 22 percent in the third quarter as government financing was offset by tight credit markets, according to new research released Friday. From July to September, new global investment totaled $25.9 billion, down 22 percent from ...
Sunday, October 04, 2009 2:33 PM
A proposed high-voltage transmission line stretching about 400 miles from Western Montana to south-central Idaho will be the subject of public information meetings this month. North West Energy plans to build a 500-kilovolt electric transmission line from a proposed substation just south of Tow ...
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