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Swiss Jatropower, a developer of Jatropha curcas seeds and associated agronomic technologies, has acquired a large majority of Quinvita’s assets. Quinvita grew these activities over a period of seven years through their breeding programme and agronomic evaluations and experiments in several Asian, African and Latin American countries and scientific collaboration with numerous research…
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Asset advisory and auction company Heritage Global Partners (HGP) is to hold a telephonic auction of almost 10% economic interest in North Star Biofuels and related intellectual property owned by R Power Biofuels and Sauber, including a patent and certain trade secrets. The winning bidder will acquire a 9.871% economic interest in a Watsonville, California-based company that owns and operates a…
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SGB, an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, has successfully created a hybrid jatropha which has both high yield and rapid time to maturity. In conjunction with these results, the company has closed an $11 million (€8.5 million) Series C financing to drive commercial rollout. With its latest generation of jatropha hybrids, SGB has reduced the time to maturity from five years to one…
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The US Navy and the Chilean Navy will continue their shared research on advanced alternative fuels for power surface vessels and navy aircraft. After a four-year mutual agreement, this latest agreement enables both countries to reduce their dependence of imported fuels, and increase their energy security. By 2020, the US Navy aims to have 50% of its operations fuelled by alternative energy…
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National flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia will use avtur, a type of aviation turbine fuel, with biofuel to help reduce its carbon emissions. Starting in 2016, the airline will use approximately 1.8 billion litres per year of avtur to operate at its aircraft. As a result, from 2016, Garuda's jet fuel consumption is expected to reach 2 billion litres per year. The state-owned carrier is currently…
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Colorado State University (CSU) researches Camelina sativa, a feedstock that could be used to power vehicles. CSU scientists are conducting a three-year study on Camelina sativa to study its potential as an economically viable and environmentally sustainable biofuels crop. In July, the research team led by CSU agriculture professor John McKay was presented with a $1.5 million (€1.1 million)…
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Algae Systems has finished constructing its biofuel production demonstration project in Daphne, Alabama. The company uses a process that combines wastewater with algae to cultivate the world's first energy-producing wastewater treatment process, using carbon-negative technologies to produce biofuels. 'This is the first demonstration of producing clean water and biofuel from wastewater and algae.…
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Karlstad Airport, Sweden, has become the first airport in Europe to install a fixed storage tank facility for aviation biofuel. The facility officially opened on 26 June and the first regular commercial flight in Sweden took off the same day. From the start of 2015, biofuels will be available to all aircraft departing from Karlstad Airport. 'This facility is the first stationary storage tank for…
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Philadelphia-based biofuels company, SG Preston, is planning to build a $400 million (€299 million) renewable diesel plant in Ohio, US. SG Preston's plant will have a capacity of 120 million gallons (454 million litres). The South Point facility in Lawrence County is expected to be completed in 2017.
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Boeing are collaborating with South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG to produce sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. SkyNRG is increasing the production of a hybrid plant called Solaris as an energy crop that farmers can cultivate as a replacement of traditional tobacco. The plants are currently being tested in South Africa, with both small and large farms expected to…
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Cathay Pacific Airways has invested in Fulcrum BioEnergy, a US-based sustainable biofuel developer, as part of the airline's biofuels strategy. The airline hopes this initiative will help it to achieve its goal of carbon-neutral growth from 2020. Cathay Pacific has agreed a long-term supply agreement with Fulcrum for an initial 375 million US gallons of sustainable aviation fuel over 10 years.…
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In Lagos, Nigeria, biodiesel technology supplier Florida Biodiesel has completed the sale of a biodiesel plant to Avandith Energy in Lagos, Nigeria.   Avandith Energy chose the processor from Florida Biodiesel for its pilot transesterification facility. The technology will allow Avandith Energy to produce four batches of the biofuel every 24 hours.   In a statement, Florida Biodiesel…
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