Feb 12, 2016
Pacific Ethanol inks technology agreement with Whitefox Technologies
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Feb 12, 2016
The European renewable ethanol association (ePURE) has urged the European Commission to introduce a binding framework promoting the use of renewable fuels in transport.
In a submission to the public consultation for the new Renewable Energy Directive (REDII), which is being drafted this year and will cover the period 2020-2030, ePURE sets out the case for a binding framework... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2016
Green Plains, a US-based commodity processing firm, said that it had a fourth-quarter loss, from a profit a year earlier, due to depressed selling prices for ethanol.
The Omaha-based company said the net loss was $3.6m (€2.73m), or 9 cents a share, from net income of $42m, or $1.07 a share, a year earlier. Revenue fell 11% to $740m, compared with $830m for the same... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2016
Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM), a US-based food processing and commodities trading company, is conducting a strategic review on its ethanol mills, as its ethanol arm continues to be hit by falling oil prices.
The firm announced, last week, that two of its dry ethanol mills, based in Nebraska and Iowa, will be reviewed for "strategic options" — an analysis that... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2016
Argentina is set to beef up its ethanol production by increasing the required blend of ethanol in gasoline from 10% to 12%, according to media reports.
The South American country's President, Mauricio Macri, said the additional ethanol would be exclusively derived from sugar, according to news agency Reuters.
The increase should provide a boost to farmers there who have... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2016
Egregor Biotech and Evolution Group is planning to construct a bioethanol plant in the forest-rich Komi Republic in Northern Russia.
The plant would process 400,000 tpy of unusable timber and sawmill residues into 100,000 tonnes of ethanol, according to the Komiinform news agency.
Egregor has already invested RUB15 million (€177,000) in the project, but the total... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 1, 2016
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT-R) have successfully generated low-cost biofuel using a perennial weed, the Kans grass.
The grass, native to the Indian subcontinent, grows up to three feet in height and, being widely available and perennial, comes at low cost.
"Through our technology, which we have now got patented, bioethanol will be produced... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2016
A mothballed bioethanol plant in Kazakhstan is set to resume production by the end of 2016.
The Investment Fund of Kazakhstan is working to bring the Biokhim plant, located in the town of Tayinsha in the North Kazakhstan region, back online with the first stage scheduled for December 2016.
The plant will produce bioethanol for the Pavlodar oil refinery, with later deliveries... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2016
A New York ethanol producer has been fined $87,000 (€80,300) for illegally disposing of industrial waste from its production facility.
The fine stems from a 2013 investigation into illegal activities at Shelby, NY-based Western New York Energy (WNYE) by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) unit.
The investigation determined that WNYE and... [Read More]
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Jan 4, 2016
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that the share of liquid biofuels consumed in road transport, in the UK, fell from 4.2% during the third quarter of 2014 to 3.3% during the third quarter of 2015.
DECC unveiled the statistics in its latest 'Energy Trends' publication.
Figures from DECC also showed that biodiesel consumption was 35% lower... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 4, 2016
Oasis Group, an India-based technology, engineering and construction company, will build a wheat-based ethanol plant in Punjab.
The facility is worth around £51m (INR 500 crore), according to news agency Press Trust of India.
The ethanol will be producing wheat which is unfit for human consumption, the media outlet stated.
Currently, India relies mainly on sugar... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2015
A team of experts from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and the University of Cambridge in the UK are embarking to research renewable energy and to develop biofuels for use in small machines like lawnmower.
The research project also attempts to discover the most cost effective and low-emission biofuel source for its purposes, such as jatropha or a mixed source.
According... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 14, 2015
Bioethanol and petrol blends lowered CO2 emissions from road traffic in Germany by around 1.2 million tonnes in the first three quarters of 2015, a new study says.
According to the findings of a study in German on the economic importance of the largest site of German bioethanol production in Saxony-Anhalt, every litre of bioethanol reduced greenhouse gas emission by 1.1kg.
‘This... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2015
The US Grains Council’s ethanol export promotion programme has seen an early success with a US exporter confirming significant sales of US ethanol to Peru.
The 10 million gallons of ethanol, valued at more than $15 million (€13.7m), were sold after the US Grains Council (USGC) led a team of Peruvian ethanol buyers and producers to participate in the International... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2015
China New Energy has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Sunbird Bioenergy Africa for the development of two biorefineries, one each in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The Memorandum of Undestanding (MOU) was signed at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) 6th Ministerial Conference and Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Under the terms of the MOU, China New... [Read More]
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Nov 26, 2015
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to increase requirements for biofuels use through 2016 due to higher total fuel demand, when it publishes a final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rule in the coming days, sources say.
The environmental regulator is expected to announce requirements on its plan for the programme, on or by Monday, 30 November, when global... [Read More]
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Nov 25, 2015
Ensyn, a producer of cellulosic liquid biofuels from wood residues and other non-food biomass, has been granted regulatory approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its renewable petrol product.
The approval, in accordance with Title 40 CFR Part 79 of the Clean Air Act, is required for Ensyn’s RFGasoline to be sold in the US.
The endorsement... [Read More]
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