Bioenergy News

As you head to the beach this year, you may find some new products at the surf shop, made of bioplastics from algae.

5 things you should know about algae and why the Energy Department is excited to invest in this "green" technology.

New funding to increase the nation’s energy independence by supporting the development of bioenergy feedstocks, biofuels, and biobased products.

The Algae Technology Education Consortium (ATEC), a collaboration among the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Algae Foundation, universitie...

Program helps small businesses tap into the intellectual and technical resources they need to overcome critical technology challenges.

What if plastic came from renewable resources? Mango Materials has developed a new way of producing plastics that make it biodegradable and petroleum-free. The project is being supported with help from the national laboratories through the Energy Depar...

A project funded by the Energy Department’s Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to show how perennial plants grown for bioenergy could be integra

The 2016 Billion-Ton Report (BT16), Volume 2: Environmental Sustainability Effects of Select Scenarios from Volume 1, jointly released by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), i...

The Energy Department (DOE) and the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) jointly announced $22.7 million today to support the optimization of integrated biorefineries (IBR).

Algae absorb nutrients and produce oxygen—ecosystem services that are vital to the health of impaired water bodies like the Chesapeake Bay and Gu...