Bioenergy News

R&D will enable cost-competitive, drop-in renewable hydrocarbon fuels, bio-based products, and power from non-food biomass and waste feedstocks.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) published the summary report for its workshop on Moving Beyond Drop-In...

Researchers look at wastewater sludge; animal manure; food waste; and fats, oil and grease as sources for the production of biofuel

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)-funded Algae Technology Educational Consortium (ATEC) is proud to announce...

Projects to advance research in the development of microbes as practical platforms for the production of biofuels and from renewable resources.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million in funding for advanced biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products.

Four funding opportunities support early-stage bioenergy research and development.

BETO and VTO announce the Co-Optima Funding Opportunity.

BETO and the Alliance for Green Heat announce the second round of finalists for the 2018 Wood Stove Design Challenge.

DOE released two studies from the Co-Optimization of Engines & Fuels initiative (Co-Optima).

Read the results of BETO's 2017 Project Peer Review Report.

BETO Publishes Engineered Carbon Reduction Listening Day Summary, Announces Rewiring Initiative

With the help of PNNL, Archer Daniels Midland is a leading producer of Biobased Propylene Glycol.

Researchers at NREL are seeking to unlock the bioenergy stored in plant cell walls—with a little sugar on top.

Read about this groundbreaking work on producing biobased renewable acrylonitrile that was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

The Bioenergy Technologies Office is proud to announce the initial round of finalists from the fourth Wood Stove Design Challenge.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office is proud to announce the establishment of the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium.

The Bioenergy Technologies Office published a summary report of its Algae Cultivation for Carbon Capture and Utilization Workshop in May 2017.

The Energy Department announced the selection of one additional project under BETO’s Advanced Algal Systems Program funding opportunity announcement.

Projects will work to solve critical research and developmental challenges encountered for the successful scale-up of integrated biorefineries.

DOE announced the selection of four additional projects from the Productivity Enhanced Algae and ToolKits funding opportunity.

In March, BETO hosted the 2017 Project Peer Review in Denver, Colorado. During the event, BETO presented to the public approximately 192 projects.

Researchers have successfully tested an intelligence-based control system that increased the reliability of feedstock preprocessing equipment.

BETO announced the release of its new Bioprose blog—a key resource for scientific information on the U.S. bioeconomy.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the launch of the fourth Wood Stove Design Challenge.