Ethanol Week - March 12, 2012

Report outlines export, domestic ethanol market opportunities The opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers to continue exporting significant quantities of corn ethanol to Brazil in 2012 will rely significantly on the outcome of Brazil's latest sugarcane harvest, according to a recent Rabobank report. READ MORE SHARE
No changes to corn supply/demand in March crop report No changes to the U.S. corn balance sheet from the previous month were made to the USDA's monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report released Friday morning. READ MORE SHARE
	Obama unveils plan to expand alternative fuels infrastructure President Obama unveiled new initiatives aimed at increasing the affordability of alternative fuel vehicles and the number of alternative fueling stations during remarks delivered March 7 at the Daimler Trucks manufacturing plant in Mt. Holly, N.C. READ MORE SHARE
Industry supports extension of cellulosic, advanced tax credits The Renewable Fuels Association, Advanced Ethanol Council and Growth Energy March 8 expressed support for an amendment to the Senate transportation bill offered by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. READ MORE SHARE
Testing proves scalability of Cobalt's pretreatment process Next-generation n-butanol developer Cobalt Technologies announced the achievement of major progress toward commercial scale by successfully demonstrating its biomass pretreatment process. READ MORE SHARE
Energae signs purchase agreement for Alchem, investors sought A corn ethanol plant that has been idle since October 2007 and was sold at auction in the fall of 2010 is now being reinvented as a 10 MMgy sugar beet-to-ethanol production facility. READ MORE SHARE
Engineering study looks at ethanol plus bolt-on green diesel Al-Corn Clean Fuel, a 50 MMgy plant in Claremont, Minn., is working with a St. Paul company investigating secondary production of green diesel at a new or existing ethanol plant. READ MORE SHARE
USPTO approves Butamax patent for engineered enzymes Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for engineered ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI) enzymes that will be used to optimize the company's biobutanol production process. READ MORE SHARE