Bioethanol News

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 mills to produce its…
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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 than the same quarter of…
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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 Energy (CNE) will be…
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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 Fuel Ethanol Workshop…
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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 represents…
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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 to Professor Dr.…
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A committee of the Parliament of Queensland has decided not to suggest increasing the Australian state’s biofuel mandate. The committee chose not to recommend increasing the mandate despite admitting that the current 2% blending level is ‘unlikely’ to drive industry growth. AgForce, a lobbying organisation for Queensland agriculture, and a Member of Parliament have filed a…
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Deinove, a French biotech company developing processes for producing biofuels and bio-based chemicals from non-food biomass with its Deinococcus bacteria, has produced 2G ethanol with an exceptional performance level in a 300l fermenter. The trials were conducted at  VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Deinove's long-term partner, which has the necessary infrastructure to…
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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 follows the recently…
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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 climate change…
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Construction of a long-awaited Pentland Bio-Energy bioethanol plant in northeastern Australia could finally be set to begin. The plant project, to be located on a 66,152 hectare plot in Pentland, Queensland, has been in development since 2004 but now it could at long last see building begin in June 2016. With commissioning scheduled for June 2018, planned production at the facility is expected to…
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LT Group, owned by the tobacco and airline tycoon Lucio Tan, is set to expand its investment in the renewable energy sector with the opening of a new bioethanol facility in Lian, Philippines. The 30 million litre capacity plant will be a part of LT Group’s Absolut Distillers (ADI) project. The ceremony for the opening of the bioethanol facility is expected to be attended by…
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UK-based Sunbird Bioenergy has entered into an agreement with the Republic of Zimbabwe to develop a 120 million litre cassava-to-bioethanol plant in the country.    Announcing the agreement on Friday, biorefineries builder China New Energy (CNE) said it expected to shortly sign a memorandum of understanding with Sunbird, with which it is partnering on projects in Africa. Under the…
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Biological solutions provider Novozymes has launched Avantec Amp, an advanced enzyme product that improves yield and throughput in corn ethanol production, while increasing corn oil extraction and reducing the need for several harsh chemicals used in ethanol production. By switching from standard enzyme technology to Avantec Amp, a typical ethanol plant with a capacity of 110 million gallons can…
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