Bioethanol News

India’s first integrated bio-refinery for renewable fuels and chemicals has been inaugurated by the country’s minister for road transport, highways and shipping, Nitin Gadkari. Implemented by Indian process and project engineering company Praj Industries, the new facility will play a vital role in accelerating the country’s ethanol blending program. The new advanced bio-refinery…
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for infrastructure projects in the renewable energy sector to be accelerated, to speed-up economic growth and create jobs, according to the Hindustan Times. At the periodic review meeting between the Prime Minister and Union Ministers, Modi called for a greater focus on farm-based ethanol blending to reduce India’s dependency on fossil fuels.…
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Spanish renewable energy Abengoa has announced a positive first quarter bottom line of €5.56bn, including non-recurring profits derived from its now-completed financial restructuring. In its first quarter of it had finalised its financial restructuring process on 31 March, after conduction a share capital hike and issuing warrants. For the three month period, Abengoa booked a non-recurring…
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Iowa’s largest fuel retailer Casey’s has opened its first E15 and E85 store. The first Iowa station, located 509 Main Street in Pella, is the state’s 103rd E15 station. The Pella store is only the first of seven expected to open across the state. “This opening marks a big milestone for E15,” said Iowa Renewable Fuels Association managing director Lucy Norton.…
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Petróleo Brasileiro SA, aka Petrobras, has voiced strong opposition to the Brazilian government led initiative to increase the use of biofuels, according to Reuters. The news comes shortly after state controlled Petrobras completely withdrew from the biofuels sector. Following calls from the Brazilian government for public feedback and comment on its RenovaBio program to boost biofuels,…
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Enerkem, a Canadian waste-to-biofuels and renewable chemicals producer, has received the lowest carbon intensity value ever issued by the British Colombia Ministry of Energy and Mines. The award was given for Enerkem’s second generation ethanol product, under the Renewable and Low Carbon Fuel Requirements Regulation. The carbon intensity of Enerkem’s waste-based ethanol has been set…
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One of the first Iowa cities to offer E10 is now offering its first E15 station, according to the Iowa Renewables Fuel Association. Clarence made history in 1978 when the first gallons of E10 in the US were sold commercially. It was one of five towns to introduce the new fuel at a local gas station. Nearly 40 years later, that same town is getting its first E15 refueling site. Sundstop, located…
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The first US-Indonesia municipal waste-to-bioproducts project, known as JababECO, is officially underway after US vice president Mike Pence participated in a ceremony in Jakarta celebrating the signing of multiple Memorandums of Understanding. Indonesian vice president Jusuf Kalla, Greenbelt Resources CEO Darren Eng and Jababeka Infrastruktur director Tjahjadi Rahardja were also in attendance at…
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Nebraska-based, US ethanol producer Green Plains has announced that its subsidiary, Green Plains Cattle Company, has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire two cattle-feeding operations from Cargill for $36.7 million (€33.6m), excluding working capital. The transaction includes feed yards located in Leoti, Kansas and Yuma, Colorado and will add capacity of 155,000 head to the…
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The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) has announced that it submitted a public comment focused on its ethanol priorities soon after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally began seeking input on existing regulations to be reviewed by its newly established Regulatory Reform Task Force. The Task Force was formed in response to Executive Order 13777 to evaluate existing…
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Waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem has announced its first full scale commercial facility has met all operational milestones set by its senior lender, Integrated Asset Management (IAM). The new plant is capable of turning household waste into 99.9 % pure liquid chemicals and biofuels. Since it began production, Enerkem’s facility in Alberta, Canada, has been meeting the highest quality…
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US technology company D3MAX has announced that its cellulosic ethanol technology is helping ACE Ethanol to produce “higher yields from corn fiber at lower costs”. In February, D3MAX announced the completion and shipment of its pilot plant employing the patented D3MAX cellulosic ethanol technology. Installed at ACE Ethanol, LLC, in Stanley, Wisconsin, the testing of the patented D3MAX…
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US ethanol trade body Growth Energy has slammed a poll commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API), which claimed that consumers were concerned about the costs of supporting the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). API Downstream group director Frank Macchiarola released the poll on Friday (7 April). “Sixty-eight percent of registered voters are concerned about the government…
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A London-based investment firm Pioneer Point Partners has confirmed in a letter of intent that it is ready to invest up to €160 million in Denmark-based Maabjerg Energy Center’s bioethanol plant. The plant will be based in Western Jutland, Denmark, and create around 1,000 jobs. In a statement, Maabjerg said that Pioneer will invest in the plant if it gets a precondition that the…
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