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CFDC unveiled its new booth at the Biomass 2008 conference sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Energy.
CFDC is supported through membership
dues and program services. Services include the production and
dissemination of educational publications, the creation of and
participation in outreach events, and other education and awareness
programs. This section of our website is intended to provide
you with pertinent information on current issues, events, and
other information pertaining to the development of clean fuels.
CFDC supports these current events with testimony, speeches,
educational outreach information distribution, promotion, and
professional networking and information exchange at many of these
public, industry, and private forums.
In spite of the dangerous threats of oil imports, terrorism,
climate change and the down trodden economy, ethanol and biofuels
continue to be subjected to rumors and unfounded concerns that
are based on outdated research and biased public relations campaigns
played out in the media. As a result, CFDC is consistently
working with the media to get the stories straight with letters
to the editors, publications, and other educational information
(see
publications). CFDC
responses have recently been published in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times,
Detroit Free Press, Atlanta Journal, Christian Science Monitor and many others
are pending.
Learn more here…
CFDC, the Clean Fuels Foundation,
and the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition teamed with the Nebraska
Ethanol Board and received a grant from the Nebraska Department
of Economic Development and the Nebraska Rural Development Commission.
The Award will help CFDC and NEVC conduct a series of E85 workshops
to assist ethanol producers and potential E85 distributors and
marketers.
See Press Release
Two articles
published February 7 on ScienceXpress, the Web site of Science
magazine, received significant media attention regarding the
sustainability of ethanol and the future of biofuels as alternatives
to petroleum. The attached
overview document went to each Congressional
office in an effort to set the story straight about land use,
biofuel production, and the benefits of ethanol.
A new report, sponsored by CFDC and released
by the Ethanol Across America Education Campaign, illustrates
how U.S. ethanol production facilities are generating hundreds
of millions of dollars to local, state, and federal governments
through direct and indirect economic generation. "When
indirect and induced jobs are considered, along with capital
spending and investment, the ethanol industry is adding more
than $40 billion of gross output to the U.S. economy," said
U.S. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Co-Chairman of the Ethanol
Across America campaign. Download a PDF copy of the
report and
press
release. For more information see www.ethanolacrossamerica.net.
The New Energy Act and its Impact on Ethanol Markets in the Americas
22-23
April 2008, NYMEX, Manhattan, USA
This timely conference will place the dynamic changes occurring
in the US market within the context of global ethanol production,
marketing and trade including specific discussions on the ethanol
industries in Brazil, Mexico and CBI countries.
The link for the conference is
www.agra-net.com/usethanol
CFDC partnered
with its member The Nebraska Ethanol Board to present the 2008
Ethanol Emerging Issues Forum March 13-14, 2008 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Industry leaders will provided attendees with information and
insights on critical issues facing the ethanol industry. To receive
more information about NEB or the event go to www.ne-ethanol.org.
For more information about becoming a CFDC member contact us
at 301-718-0077 or write to burl.haigwood@cleanfuelsdc.org
CFDC, the Clean Fuels Foundation, and the National Ethanol Vehicle
Coalition teamed with the Nebraska Ethanol Board and received
a grant from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development
and the Nebraska Rural Development Commission. The Award will
help CFDC and NEVC conduct a series of E85 workshops to assist
ethanol producers and potential E85 distributors and marketers.
See Press Release…
Following overwhelming votes for passage in the U.S. Senate
and the House of Representatives, President Bush signed The
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 into law on
December 19, 2007. The legislation establishes a 36 billion gallon
Renewable Fuels Standard and increases fuel economy requirements
for the first time in nearly 30 years. These two measures
could eliminate crude oil imports by 2030.
Click here for more…
Doug Durante will
join member company representatives from KATZEN International,
General Motors, and others on a Biofuels Panel at the Annual
Power Gen RenewableEnergy Conference in Las Vegas February 19-21,
2008. Durante will review developments in Washington on the Energy
Bill, the Farm Bill, and Climate Change Legislation.
What do you think about the new RFS? We are excited to
announce the new Clean Fuels Development blog. We hope
you will take the time to share your insights, analysis and
opinions about ethanol, energy and other related topics.
CFDC has been working on the organizing committee to help develop
and launch the Washington International
Renewable Energy Conference to be held March 1-8, 2008 in Washington, D.C. WIREC is the
third global ministerial level event on renewable energy. The
U.S. Department of State will host this event, assisted by
other relevant agencies including DOE, USDA, EPA, USAID, and
the Departments of Interior and Commerce. For more information
about WIREC please contact William Armbruster at the American
Council On Renewable Energy 202 647-1247 or click
here for
more details
In an effort to provide CFDC Member Companies opportunities to
interact with the financial community, CFDC recently hosted a
pre-conference technical briefing at the Biomass Finance & Investment
Summit January 23-25, 2008 in Miami Beach, Florida. CFDC Member
companies involved in conventional ethanol technologies as well
as acid hydrolysis, gasification, microbial and enzymatic processes
were on hand to present the status of these technologies to members
of the financial community. "We think it is important to
make sure investors understand just how far we have come with
respect to many of the these technologies" said CFDC's Director
of Program Development Burl Haigwood. "We have had great
success working with Infocast at the Cellulose Summit and other
events and this provided an excellent forum to convey current
and useful information".
Click Here To Download A Complete
Conference Brochure
5th Edition of the Ethanol Fact Book Underscores 25 Years of Bipartisan Support
CFDC marked the release of the 5th Edition of the Ethanol Fact
Book with a press conference in the US Senate last month, featuring
Ethanol Across America Advisory Committee Chairs Senators Ben
Nelson and Richard Lugar. Also addressing the media were fact
book sponsors Keith Cole of General Motors, Tom Buis of the National
Farmers Union, Keith Collins, Chief Economist at the USDA, and
Steven Chalk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy,
US DOE.
Click
here for press release…
Click here for Executive Summary…
Click
here for a PDF copy of the Ethanol Fact Book…
New
20-MMGY Plant Located in Soperton, GA.
See
the Range Fuels press release.
The
majority of Americans want more cleaner burning domestic fuels
and they think the government should help. The poll also shows
that Americans also understand that the rising price of energy
has more of an impact on food than ethanol production. For
more details click here…
from the
Ethanol
Across America campaign The Impact
of Ethanol Production on Food, Fuel Feed to help combat the
negative media campaign against ethanol.
Download
a copy here…
The
new partnership between Gay & Robinson Inc. and Pacific
West will invest $80 million to develop America’s first
fuel ethanol plant to generate renewable power from sugarcane.
The partners’ long
term vision is for an “energy plantation” on Kauai
that also produces biodiesel, hydro and solar power. The operation
includes a 7,500 acre sugar plantation, giving the owners control
over their supply of feedstock. This new investment will
help lower the cost of energy in Hawaii and help the state meet
its renewable energy goals. It will also ensure that approximately
230 people retain their jobs at the facility and that a large
area of West Kauai will be maintained in sustainable agriculture.
On the road with the Live Green, Go Yellow campaign.
CFDC is participating in longtime member company General Motors’ FlexFuel
education and outreach program to promote Flexible Fuel Vehicles
and advance the development of E85 refueling infrastructure.
Over 30 members of the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition are
also participating in the program along with several other industry
partners. CFDC staff have named the 2007 Avalanche Sammy, after
the national Icon, Uncle Sam. “We Want You to Support
Clean Fuels!” The CFDC corn car has participated in numerous
education and outreach efforts at the national, regional and
local levels...
Click
Here for Other Sammy (GM FlexFuel Avalanche) photos.
The Ethanol Across America Education Campaign administered
through CFDC’s Foundation is once again honored to have
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) as
the co-chairs of this important education effort. Congratulations
to both Senators on their respective re-elections!
For more information
click
here.
As
part of its 20 year anniversary, CFDC is proud to announce the
addition of several strategic partners for 2007. The
Strategic Partner team provides CFDC with added depth and breath
in the areas of communication and marketing, training and development,
information technology, web technologies, on-line services,
and technical engineering.
Learn
More…
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Meeting Our Mission
THE CLEAN FUELS DEVELOPMENT COALITION
(CFDC) is a non-profit organization that actively supports the increased
production and use of fuels that can improve air quality, reduce oil
imports, and provide economic benefits to the U.S. Through four administrations
and eight different Congressional delegations, CFDC has been building
bi-partisan support in industry and government to foster a healthy
national energy policy. CFDC works with all interested parties to support
clean fuel regulations and new technologies that will help our country
meet the ever changing and complex demands of our society. Our goal
is to drive the demand for clean low-carbon fuels, like ethanol, through
a combination of efforts that include collaborating with industry, educating
and communicating with the media and other strategic influencers, and supporting
new legislative initiatives that will help us achieve our mission.
Seeing Our Vision
For over 20 years, CFDC has been coordinating and guiding a coalition
of like-minded leaders committed to developing cleaner-burning domestic
fuels. We help leverage our member’s time, resources and talent
to take a leadership role in the development of new national energy
strategies to improve clean fuel legislation and regulations. These
efforts have already fostered new fuel technologies, improved manufacturing
processes, created new jobs, reduced oil imports and improved air quality
through reduced emissions. The results are a cleaner, safer, healthier,
and prosperous United States.
About the Coalition
CFDC is not your typical narrow-mission trade association. Individually
our member’s missions are very diverse. Collectively, CFDC provides
its members with a common ground to support their over arching desire
to improve the “national interest,” and work together outside
the bounds of “special interest.” CFDC and its members
are always finding new and innovative ways to expand the market
for cleaner-burning domestic fuels. We achieve our goals by educating
the media, industry and government leaders, and the public about the
dangers of dependence on oil and the benefits of developing renewable
fuels like ethanol. If you have an idea to help our mission we would
like to hear about it.
Our Coalition Continues to Broaden and Grow
Having a true broad-based coalition is not easy – but it keeps
the mission focused and the debate honest. As a result, CFDC continues
to draw a broad range of members that share a common goal. Our
members include alternative fuel technology developers, ethanol producers,
project developers, state affiliated organizations, automakers, and financial/legal/accounting
organizations. We have provided examples of our membership base
and links to their websites to provide you with additional information
about their goals, special projects and current events and news within
their organizations.
CFDC members include leading cellulosic-ethanol technology firms, such
as Range Fuels which
has broken ground on the nation's first cellulosic ethanol facility in
Georgia using a thermal conversion technology. Fuel
Frontiers, Inc. is
commercializing a gasification technology to produce ethanol from a wide
range of cellulose materials, including used tires, beginning with a
project in Toms River, New Jersey. Other creative conversion technologies
include member company Earthanol, Inc. and
their efforts to produce ethanol from cheese whey. Virent
Energy is
developing a technology that will allow them to make
a bio-crude and then a slate of renewable gasoline and diesel products. Mascoma
Corporation is developing
a number of cellulose-to-ethanol technologies. California
Ethanol & Power is
building a 50 MGPY plant in southern California utilizing sugar cane. KL
Process Design is
reporting very successful runs from their cellulosic ethanol plant in
Wyoming that uses wood as a feedstock. Bluefire
Ethanol recently
concluded the financing for their waste-to-ethanol plant in California
after receiving an award from the U.S. Department of Energy. CFDC members Novozymes
North America and Genencor
International, Inc. are
on the cutting edge of developing new enzymes to accelerate the deployment
of cellulosic ethanol technologies.
CFDC members Delta-T,
Burns & McDonnell,
Fagen, Inc., ICM,
KATZEN International,
and Vogelbusch
U.S.A., Inc. are leading the way in the design and construction
of the ethanol industry in the United States and around the globe. NEDAK
Ethanol, LLC recently
broke ground on a 44-MM gpy facility in Atkinson, Nebraska while Reeve
Agri-Energy has been making ethanol and supporting
CFDC for 21 years. US
Bioenergy Corporation, US
Bio Platte Valley, LLC, Renova
Energy ID, Inc., ETH
BioEnergy Inc., ESE
Alcohol, Inc., E3
Biofuels are
all forward thinking and innovative ethanol producers and other members
like Empire State Ethanol & Energy,
LLC and Clear
Fuels Hawaii are
in the process of developing new ethanol projects.
CFDC member companies General
Motors and Chrysler have been working
with CFDC for 17 years to develop cleaner fuels and expand the biofuels/ethanol
market and refueling infrastructure. They have
also pledged that by 2012 50% of their vehicles be Flexible Fuel Vehicles
(FFVs), capable of operating on ethanol blends of up to 85%.
CFDC also supports the broader vision and mission of a diverse
base of companies and organizations such as The
Clean Fuels Foundation, The
Nebraska Ethanol Board, Avalon
Capital Group, Klamath
County Economic Development Association, Nebraska
Public Power District, Ethanol
Market, LLC, ED&F
Man Biofuels, and Andrews
Kurth.
The link below is an example of how one CFDC member company
(KL Process Design) helps with the education and outreach process by
educating their employees, vendors and the general public.
Ethanol:
Fact • Fiction • Valid Debate
The Nebraska Ethanol Board, one of the founding members of the Clean Fuels
Development Coalition, is celebrating its 35th Anniversary this month.
CFDC's first Chairman and a fellow founding Member James Glancey of Renova
Energy, hailed the NEB as one of the driving forces behind the modern U.S.
Ethanol industry. "The NEB has led this industry with its vision, leadership, and insight," said Glancey. "Their
Board members and staff have shaped not just the state program but had
a direct impact on programs at the national level that have created opportunities
for all of us." (click here for full story)
Clean Fuels: Everyone is a Winner!
Find your state and get a free poster! Show
your support for Ethanol Across all of America by displaying the Award Winning
poster of vanity tags from all 50 states supporting ethanol. CFDC's design
firm David & Associates of Hastings, Nebraska recently received an award
from the National Agri-Marketing Association for this unique promotional
item.
CFDC is supporting General Motors'
Governors' Ethanol Coalition E-85 Program.
CFDC is participating in General Motors' program to promote
the use of E-85. GM has lent vehicles like the E-85 powered Avalanche to
more than 30 members of the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition. In addition,
GM’s key support organizations, like CFDC, have also received an
Avalanche. CFDC has brought the vehicle to various events in and around
Washington, DC over recent months. Click
here for more details.
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