Biodiesel News

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Department of Justice (DOJ) have settled an environmental enforcement case with Newport Biodiesel, resulting in reduced air emissions and improved safety controls at the company’s biodiesel manufacturing plant in Newport, Rhode Island. EPA and DOJ alleged that Newport Biodiesel violated various Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements for…
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Crimson Renewable Energy has completed the expansion of its ultra-low carbon biodiesel production facility that the company hopes will lead to a tripling of production. The multi-million dollar plant upgrade was partially funded by a matching grant from the California Energy Commission’s Alternative Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. The upgrades included expansion of steam and…
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Neste Oil says it is now the world's largest producer of renewable fuels from waste and residues. In 2014, the company produced nearly 1.3 million tonnes (1.6 billion litres) of renewable fuel from waste and residues. In practical terms, this is enough to power for two years all the 650,000 diesel-powered passenger cars in Finland with renewable NEXBTL diesel manufactured from waste and…
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Alaska Airline is teaming up with the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) to advance the production and use of alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the tree limbs and branches that remain after a forest harvest. As the airline partner for NARA, Alaska Airlines intends next year to fly a demonstration flight using 1,000 gallons of alternative…
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Chicago, US-based Lakeview Energy has purchased the assets of the former Producer’s Choice Soy Energy facility in Moberly, Missouri. Lakeview made the purchase with the aid of a $3.3 million (€2.9 million) loan from the USDA Rural Energy for America programme. With a further $5 million investment, Lakeview plans to upgrade the 10 million gpy capacity biodiesel production facility, now…
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A 5 MMgy supercritical biodiesel plant in Illinois, US, designed and built by Jatrodiesel, has been commissioned and is now operational. The facility is co-located with the 125 MMgy CHS-owned Patriot Renewable Fuels ethanol plant in Annawan. It makes use of the existing refinery’s infrastructure, steam, and distillers corn oil byproduct to produce biodiesel. According to Jatrodiesel, the…
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Warrington's Stobart Group has signed a £110 million biofuel supply deal with a Welsh company. In the agreement, Stobart Energy will source, process and supply 250,000 tonnes per year of recycled waste wood to Margam over 14 years. The Transport business will also transport the product which will generate additional revenue for the company's Energy Division. 'This agreement will contribute…
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Tenaska, an independent energy company, has acquired the assets of Clinton County Bio Energy (CCBE) in Clinton, Iowa from a local group of investors. Ocean Park Advisors (OPA) acted as exclusive financial advisor to CCBE on the sale transaction. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The assets include a 10 MGPY biodiesel refinery in Clinton, Iowa that produces B100 quality…
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Portugal-based IncBio, an engineering company and specialist in fully automated industrial ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has secured an agreement to design and build a 75,000 tonne per year biodiesel plant for Biocosta Green Energy in Santa Marta, Colombia. The facility will produce biodiesel directly from crude palm oil blended with palm acid oil and palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) up to a…
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Nidera, an agriculture supply company, has earned the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) certification for the production and trading of biofuels from used cooking oil (UCO). Nidera, based in the Netherlands, operates worldwide as a commodity service and solutions provider for the global agricultural markets and has an active presence in more than 18 countries. The certification scope…
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Hamburger giant McDonald’s vehicle fleet in the United Arab Emirates has completed 5 million kilometres of running entirely on biodiesel. To reach the total distance, McDonald’s United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered with the Dubai-based biodiesel producer Neutral Fuels. The renewable fuel is produced from the used cooking oil (UCO) collected from the fast food concern’s 135…
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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has published a 'first-of-its-kind scorecard', which evaluates airlines on their adoption of biofuels. The highest scoring carrier was Air France/KLM, followed by British Airways, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Cathay Pacific and Alaska Airlines. 'It's great to see certain airlines becoming leaders in the use of sustainable biofuels,' Debbie Hammel,…
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In Indiana, US, Chad Ducey has pleaded guilty for his role in a multi-state scheme to defraud biodiesel buyers and US taxpayers by fraudulently selling biodiesel incentives. His two brothers, Chris and Craig Ducey, have also pleaded guilty for their roles in the same scheme. The three brothers operated E-biofuels from a facility in Middletown, Indiana. As part of the scheme, they sold over 35…
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Propel Fuels has begun offering Neste’s renewable NexBTL diesel at 13 Southern California locations. The provided fuel is marketed as Diesel High Performance Renewable (HPR) and it consists of 98.5% NexBTL. Diesel HPR has also been launched in commercial and bulk availability across California, with the fuel bundled with Propel Fuels’ CleanDrive emissions account software. The…
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