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Hot, dry weather is now expected to reduce the US corn harvest and lift consumer prices for everything from breakfast cereal to pump prices at the local service station. Agricultural stocks from...
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More than 40% of this year’s US corn harvest, about 5.05 billion bushels, is expected to be used to produce ethanol. That surpasses an estimated 5 billion bushels that will be used for livestock...
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The writing has been on the wall for about three weeks: the $0.45/gallon ethanol subsidy and the $0.54/gallon tariff on imports are politically dead. Another nail got hammered into the coffin...
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The US Department of Energy has announced that it will offer a loan guarantee for $105 million to expand an Iowa plant that makes ethanol from the cellulosic waste matter, called stover, of corn...
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For about six months in 2010, Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) had the publicly traded biofuels market to itself. Then Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRS) and Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) jumped in, and in May...
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The US Senate, by a 73-27 margin, has approved an amendment to an economic development bill that would end the $0.45/gallon ethanol credit and the $0.54/gallon tariff on imported ethanol. A similar...
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In our daily internal reviews of looking for trends in commodities, one trend stood out rather clearly… Cane-based ethanol might not even be solid for the Boys from Brazil. The price of sugar is...
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Today’s commodities news starts off with a drawdown on copper from bonded warehouses in Shanghai. There are also new doubts about the US corn crop, and we finish up with a brief take on silver,...
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Today’s alternative energy news starts off with more lukewarm news from solar panel makers and follows with the latest on pricing for ethanol. We also take a look at how smartphones may have an...
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Today’s alternative energy news leads off with a downgrade to First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), then looks at a new bill to cut ethanol subsidies, and wraps up with profit news from Spain’s...
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Today’s commodities news reflects on the sharp drop in silver, continuing softness in cotton prices, and another fall in grain prices. The fall in silver prices immediately following the...
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Today’s alt energy news leads off with some comments from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, reports on some problems with wind generation in New Jersey, and comments on a new report from the...
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Today’s round-up of alternative energy news includes a new IPO filing from a well-known entrepreneur, some developments in batteries, and another federal loan guarantee for a large solar PV...
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Today’s alternative energy watch looks at a new effort to increase domestic use of ethanol and a report from the UK on the efficiency of wind generation.A bill called the “Biofuels Market...
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It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector. General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) plans to build a new plant to manufacture 400 megawatts annually of thin-film solar PV panels. No...
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