Nov 29, 2017
Brazil passes bill to set up RenovaBio programme to beef up biofuels industry
Bioethanol News
Nov 28, 2017
Argentina’s energy ministry has partially backtracked on a price cut on ethanol introduced earlier this month for refiners who mix the biofuel into gasoline at a 12% ratio, according to Hellenic Shipping News.
The price cut has been shaved to 7.5% from 15% for sugarcane-derived ethanol, and to 10.5% from 21.1% for supplies made from corn, the ministry said in a resolution... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 28, 2017
Brazil’s Union of Sugarcane Industry (Unica) has issued a harvest update for the country’s South-Central region from April to 16 November.
Brazil’s sugarcane crush for the 2017-18 harvest was down 1.61% from April to 16 November, 2017, compared to the same period a year ago, totalling 552.948 tonnes, according to figures from Unica.
Total ethanol production... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 27, 2017
Commodities trader Noble Group has announced it is selling its US-based ethanol producer Noble Americas South Bend Ethanol (NASBE) for $12.5 million (€10.5 million).
According to a statement from Noble, the company has entered into an equity purchase agreement with Zeeland Farm Services for the proposed sale of “all of the issued and outstanding capital stock”... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 24, 2017
Nigeria’s state oil corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Kebbi State Government (KBSG) to build a bioethanol plant.
The plant is expected to use cassava and sugarcane as a feedstock and produce 84 million litres of ethanol per year, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said in a statement.
The Nigerian government is investing... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 24, 2017
US advanced biofuels producer Poet has responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to maintain the current point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
CEO Jeff Broin said: “By maintaining the point of obligation for the RFS, the EPA is allowing the system to continue to work as designed. Under the RFS, infrastructure for... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 24, 2017
The European renewable ethanol association ePure has responded to the European Union’s third State of the Energy Union report.
A key finding of the report is that thanks to progress in 2017, the EU is on track to implement the Energy Union project and deliver jobs, growth and investments. Enabling actions are being put in place to support a socially fair... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 22, 2017
China’s Hainan Airlines has completed the country’s ‘first’ cross-ocean biofuels powered flight.
Flight 497 took off from the Beijing on 21 November. It landed at Chicago’s O’Hare airport at 12:05pm local time. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner completed the more than 11,000km journey with biological aviation fuel produced from waste cooking... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 22, 2017
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $11.9 million (€7.7 million) in funding for Ethanol Technologies (Ethtec), an Australian biofuel company. The funding will go towards the development and demonstration of Ethtec’s advance bioethanol technology.
Ethtec aims to construct a $30 million (€19.3 million) purpose built pilot-scale facility... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 20, 2017
The US state of Iowa has 146 petrol stations that offer E15.
The US state of Iowa has expanded the number of petrol stations that offer drivers E15.
The news comes as petrol station Casey’s announced that it added two more petrol stations to its E15 portfolio in Iowa. A total of five Casey’s stations across Iowa now offer E15. Overall, the company has 17 stations... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 20, 2017
Qantas Airlines and Quebec, Canada based Agrisoma Biosciences have signed what they claim is the ‘first-ever’ ‘farm-to-flight’ deal. The agreement will see farmers in Australia growing a Canadian oilseed used to make bio jet fuel.
Agrisoma will work with Australian farmers to grow the Carinata seed, a non-food, industrial type of mustard seed that... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 20, 2017
UK bioethanol producer Vivergo Fuel has announced plans to bring forward and extend its annual plant maintenance shutdown period as a result of poor market conditions and legislative uncertainty.
The company’s bioethanol plant is based in Salt End, Hull, in the North East of England.
‘Serious consequences’
Speaking about the issue, Mark Chesworth, managing... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 16, 2017
Scientists in the US are working to produce biofuels from poplar that could compete with the oil industry.
The US Pacific Northwest has an abundant supply of poplar, a fast growing and versatile tree whose wood can be transformed into biofuels and high value chemicals. However, even though scientists are exploring poplars’ potential to be used in ethanol production,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 16, 2017
American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), a US bioethanol trade body, has announced the first two in a series of fuel marketer-focused videos on the flexfuelforward.com website, part of a campaign to feature real world E15 and flex fuel retailer success stories.
The series will address common marketer questions about E15 and flex fuels with straightforward answers... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 14, 2017
Current methods to make aviation more sustainable, including subsidies for biofuels, will not be enough to meet climate targets, according to a PhD student from Delft University in the Netherlands.
Paul Peeters, who has completed his PhD on the sustainability of the aviation sector, concludes that climate targets will not be reached without a ‘severe reduction’... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 14, 2017
India-headquartered Sona Group has announced that it has beefed up the production at its Nigeria-based ethanol plant, according to media reports from Business Day.
The website reported that Sona ethanol will producing 120,000 litres daily, approximately 43.8 million litres per annum at its plant in Ogun state.
The Sona ethanol plant which is located at Sango-Ota is expected... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Nov 13, 2017
US cellulosic and biorefining company Edeniq has joined forces with other biofuels stakeholders in Washington, DC, to call for Members of Congress to maintain “strong” 2018 cellulosic targets under the renewable fuel standard (RFS).
The group recently met with key Members of Congress to explain why it was “critical that the 2018 cellulosic annual renewable... [Read More]
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