PORT GIBSON — National Clean Fuels president and chairman Maurice Stone reports that the company’s Mississippi biomass project is progressing as expected after meeting with representatives of the Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy. Stone met with Center president Norris McDonald, vice president Derry Bigby and consultant John McCormick in Alexandria, Va., Jan. 3. NACF and [...] [...]
CHOCTAW COUNTY — The Choctaw County Economic Development District announced an option agreement has been formalized with an unspecified renewable power developer for the purposes of conducting due diligence on the Red Hills EcoPlex site. Terms were not disclosed. The development under consideration is for a renewable power plant facility that would utilize biomass (specifically [...] [...]
NORTH MISSISSIPPI — The Tennessee Valley Authority has added to its renewable power portfolio with the announcement of a new TVA initiative for mid-size renewable generators. The TVA Renewable Standard Offer will encourage more renewable development within the region by allowing developers to enter into long-term price contracts with TVA. These new renewable projects may [...] [...]
PORT GIBSON — National Clean Fuels chairman and president Maurice Stone announced that the company signed an option agreement with the Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy (The Center). The Center has the expertise to assist NACF with the development and implementation of clean and alternative energy services and systems in the City of Port [...] [...]
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – In what is slated to be the nation’s largest single-state propane AutoGas fueling network, Indiana’s Department of Transportation has awarded Alliance AutoGas a $3.2-million contract for the implementation of 115 clean AutoGas fueling stations. This network is the first of its kind, according to the company, providing Indiana’s public and private fleet [...] [...]
FULTON — BlueFire Renewables Inc. has signed a contract with Mobile, Ala.-based Cooper Marine & Timberlands to provide feedstock for BlueFire’s planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS for a period of up to 15 years. Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands (CMT) will supply BlueFire’s Fulton project in Northeast Mississippi with all of [...] [...]
ATLANTA — Southern Company has captured carbon dioxide from one of its power plants for the first time. The research accomplishment was achieved this month at subsidiary Georgia Power’s Plant Yates near Newnan, Ga. The pilot-scale project at Plant Yates, which uses a capture system developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), will provide additional process [...] [...]
FULTON — BlueFire Renewables Inc. has announced an off-take agreement with Tenaska BioFuels, LLC (TBF) for the purchase and sale of all ethanol produced at BlueFire’s planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton in Northeast Mississippi. “This off-take agreement is a significant step forward for BlueFire. It provides immediate revenue once our plant is on-line. Also, [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) recently announced 11 grants in the second round of awards under the Market Transformation and Technology Deployment: Renewable Energy Projects grant program. The program, a part of the State Energy Program (SEP) funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), was designed to offer [...] [...]
ABERDEEN — A disbarred Tennessee attorney gets a 26-month sentence for defrauding a federal biofuels subsidy program. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal says 67-year-old H. Max Speight was sentenced yesterday in federal court. Speight and William T. “Tommy” Tacker II of Okolona were partners in Biodiesel of Mississippi Inc., which built a soybean biodiesel refinery [...] [...]
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