Potential for California
Waste-Based or Other Biomass Ethanol Development

Origin

On March 25, 1999, Governor Gray Davis released Executive Order D-5-99 directing the California Energy Commission to evaluate and report to the Governor and the Secretary for Environmental Protection on the potential for development of a California waste-based or other biomass ethanol industry. The Executive Order provides for phase-out of the gasoline additive MTBE and directs a variety of state agency actions to establish alternatives to MTBE, including ethanol. This workplan addresses Task 11 of the Governor's Executive Order that says:

"The California Energy Commission (CEC) shall evaluate by December 31, 1999, and report to the Governor and the Secretary for Environmental Protection the potential for development of a California waste-based or other biomass ethanol industry. CEC shall evaluate what steps, if any, would be appropriate to foster waste-based or other biomass ethanol development in California should ethanol be found to be an acceptable substitute for MTBE."

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Documents and Notices

Staff Presentation on Background Ethanol Information presented at the Capitol on Wednesday October 3, 2001 to Legislative Staff. It contains material on California's current and future ethanol demand, U.S. ethanol production capability and federal and state ethanol incentives. (Placed on line October 5, 2001, Powerpoint presentation, 116 kilobytes)


"Cost and Benefits of a Biomass-to-Ethanol Production Industry in California", presentation by Commission staff member Pat Perez, May 8, 2001, Breckenridge, Colorado, at the 23rd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. (Placed on line May 10, 2001, Powerpoint presentation, 785 kilobytes)


DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT -- Costs and Benefits of a Biomass-to-Ethanol Production Industry in California, Publication Numbers 500-01-002 and 500-01-002A (Appendices). April 3, 2001, ADOBE ACROBAT PDF file, 197 pages, 1.0 megabytes)

FINAL REPORT -- Report to the Governor: Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Potential in California. Adopted December 22, 1999.

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NOTE: Documents below here are preliminary to the final report and are listed here for reference purposes only. Please refer to final adopted report above.

Annotated Outline of Report: Costs and Benefits of a Biomass-to-Ethanol Production Industry in California. September 19, 2000.

Costs and Benefits of a Biomass-to-Ehanol Production Industry in California, Report dated March 21, 2001
(18 slides, 772 kilobytes)

Los Vegas Costs and Benefits of a Biomass-to-Ethanol Production Industry in California , National Ethanol Conference, February 20, 2001
(16 slides, 1.6 megabytes)

Notice of Committee Hearing, receive comments on the draft consultant report entitled Costs and Benefits of a Biomass-to-Ethanol Production Industry in California. Workshop to be held February 16, 2001.

Notice of staff workshop to Consider Staff Reports on the Environmental Fate and Transport and Potential Health Effects of Using Ethanol in California Reformulated Gasoline. Workshop to be held January 18, 2000.

Staff Presentation on Biomass-to-Ethanol Report given at Commission Business Meeting,
December 15, 1999. (Acrobat PDF, 15 pages, 74 kilobytes). Placed on line December 9, 1999. Note: Discussion at the Business Meeting about this item will be broadcast over the Internet.

Notice of a Public Hearing being Held November 19, 1999, on "Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Potential in California." Placed on line on October 22, 1999.

Documents for Hearing

Agenda for Workshop

Download Staff Presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint
(20 pages, 90 kilobytes)

Download Staff Presentation in Acrobat PDF
(20 pages, 77 kilobytes)

Download TRANSCRIPT OF MEETING Acrobat PDF
(136 pages, 272 kilobytes)

NOTE: Because this hearing was broadcast LIVE over the Internet, an archive of the actual hearing is available to listen to in RealAudio. Please go to our RealAudio Archive page.

COMMITTEE DRAFT Recommended changes and additions to October 1999 Draft Report on Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol fuel potential in California", December 2, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat PDF 23 pages, 110 kilobytes).

COMMITTEE DRAFT Report to the Governor on "Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Potential in California", October 22, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat PDF 133 pages, 500 kilobytes).

COMMITTEE DRAFT Appendices to report: "Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Potential in California", October 22, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat PDF 267 pages, 1,200 kilobytes).

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"Project Update on Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Report Activities," presentation by Pat Perez delivered at the U.S. Department of Energy Ethanol Workshop on October 5, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 14 pages, 72 kilobytes)

Transcript of staff workshop held September 10, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 183 pages, 364 kilobytes)

"Challenges and Opportunities for Biomass-to-Ethanol Development in California," presentation by Pat Perez, Project Manager, to the Bioenergy Development and Expansion Conference - Rocklin, California, September 16, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file, 9 pages, 36 kilobytes)

"Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Potential in California"; PowerPoint presentation given at the staff workshop, September 10, 1999. (26 slides, 1.2 megabytes)

Notice of staff workshop on the "Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol" Report, Workshop to be held September 10, 1999.

DRAFT Report to the Governor on "Evaluation of Biomass-to-Ethanol Fuel Potential in California", August 13, 1999. Executive summary in HTML, full report in PDF.

Ethanol Opportunities in California; PowerPoint presentation given by Pat Perez to the Governors' Ethanol Coalition, June 22, 1999. (20 pages, 71 kilobytes)

FINAL OUTLINE OF REPORT, June 4, 1999. (10 pages, 24 kilobytes)

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For more information, please contact: Pat Perez, 916-654-4527
E-mail: PPerez@energy.state.ca.us