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Riopaila Castilla, Columbia's largest sugar producer by market share (20%), recently announced that its board of directors approved a proposal that would allow the company to build a 35-megawatt biomass cogeneration plant at a cost of around $48 million.

In biofuels circles, especially within the walls of the U.S. ethanol industry, Brazil has long been seen as a competitor for America's corn-based fuel.  Industry representatives have gone so far as to label Brazil's ethanol industry as a threat to domestic production and U.S. energy independence.  In 2011, however, this couldn't be further from the case:  data from the U.S. Energy Information Association (EIA) shows Brazil actually propelled the United States to record ethanol exports last year.

As the U.S. federal election begins to heat up and the Republican's close in on choosing a presidential candidate, President Obama and his Administration find themselves under the financial microscope again.

On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture rolled out two new funding programs which it hopes will both increase the production of advanced biofuels and also promote the use of renewable energy to create the biofuel.