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The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), a group made up of 57 Indian tribes, has formed a business relationship with renewable jet fuel supplier BioJet International.
The CERT members, who own and manage coal, uranium, oil and gas reserves throughout the US, will work with BioJet to capitalise on supply chain projects relating to feedstock and refining projects.
Mitch Hawkins, CEO of…
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Bioethanol producer CropEnergies has reported a 22% rise in group revenues to €425.8 million which the company says is because of the higher prices of bioethanol and protein food and animal feed products.
‘Ethanol prices in Europe have risen since 2010, mostly due to higher demand which is fuelled by the growing blending rates and implementation of the EU Renewable Energies Directive…
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DuPont and feedstock company NexSteppe have signed an agreement to develop advanced feedstocks for biofuels, biopower and biobased products. In particular, the development will focus on new sweet sorghum and high biomass sorghum hybrids.
DuPont has made an equity investment in the company which it hopes will enable it to breed and commercialise new hybrids within crops in both the US and…
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Springboard Biodiesel and Pinnacle Capital have launched a new programme to install small-scale biodiesel production facilities at both public and private schools and campuses in the US.
The technology will turn used cooking oil from the kitchens on the site into biodiesel that will be used to fuel school vehicles.
‘Because the cost of making biodiesel in our BioPro systems is less than…
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BP Technology Ventures has invested in Cool Planet Biofuels as part of the company’s C financing round, following the likes of General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners, other investor companies.
The money will be used to further develop Cool Planet’s technology which involves producing reduced carbon petrol from grass and woodchips which…
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The Nigerian government has signed a deal with Global Biofuels, a local biofuel producer, to build 15 biofuel plants in the country, costing about N414 billion (€2.02 billion) in total.
The project will create about 120,000 jobs and will power 15 states with 30MW each. A pilot plant will be built in Ekiti, with construction beginning within the next few months and finishing in a year’s…
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The Illinois state government has extended the tax credit for biodiesel for an extra five years, until 2018. Originally the credit was due to run out in 2013, but now biodiesel blends of more than 1% and less than 10% will continue to have tax applied to only 80% of the total cost for a further six years.
The Senate Bill 397 passed the full Illinois Senate by a vote of 44-9 and any biodiesel…
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Florida-based company BioTork has converted papayas into fatty acids which it says can be refined into biofuels.
Under a research development programme working with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (PBARC) and Rivertop Solutions, BioTork says this discovery is a positive breakthrough for the local agriculture and military markets.
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World Health Energy Holdings (WHEH), a public holding company that works on forming joint ventures with algae companies for the production of biodiesel and fish food, says it has signed a deal with Indian company Prime to build a biodiesel facility.
The production site will sit on 250 acres and cost up to $100 million (€77 million) to build. So far two sites are being considered for the…
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German chemical company BASF has participated in a $50 million (€38 million) funding round with an investment of $30 million into biofuel producer Renmatix.
The process Renmatix uses to produce biofuels includes creating industrial sugar from lignocellulosic biomass such as wood, cane waste or straw. Using supercritical water—a state in which water acts as a…
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has introduced new state guidelines which allow for biodiesel to be blended at any ratio into any compliant fuel. This means former limitations, such as having to use more additives within the biodiesel and producers having to report blending requirements, are now non-existent.
Biodiesel producers have happily accepted the new ruling with…
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Evogene has established Evofuel, a subsidiary of the company, which will focus on developing seeds to be used as a feedstock for the development of biofuel.
In particular, castor bean varieties will be developed for biofuel commercialisation in both Brazil and Israel.
‘We have headquarters in Israel and field trials there that simulate different water conditions – this is where our…
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The German Federal Finance Ministry says it will qualify biodiesel produced from used cooking oil for double counting, even if it includes animal fats.
The Netherlands and France already includes waste-based biodiesel within its double counting legislation and it is possible to double count in countries that have not yet implemented their schemes officially, such as in the UK.
Previously, Germany…
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Neste Oil has commissioned its Rotterdam facility to produce hydrated vegetable oil (HVO), opening it on 19 December 2011.
This follows the opening of productiion in Singapore and Finland, adding a further 800,000 tonnes to its capacity and bringing the total output to two million tonnes of HVO.
The Rotterdam refinery produces NExBTL renewable diesel, Neste Oil’s own type of diesel, and is…
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Archer Daniels (ADM) has bought Elstar Oils in its entirety after acquiring the final 2.26% of shares.
Elstar Oils, a biodiesel company located in northern Poland, operates a rapeseed crushing, refining, solid-fat packaging and oil bottling facility in Czernin and a fully-automated biodiesel facility in Malbork.
ADM first began acquiring Elstar’s shares back in August 2011 and says as part…
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Swedfund has invested €10 million into Addax Bioenergy, a company based in Sierra Leone.
Swedfund’s investment, which Addax & Oryx is also a part of, will be the biggest private sector agriculture investment into the country and will be added to a total investment of €267 million.
The greenfield projects will include the construction of an ethanol refinery and a biomass power…
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Energy systems company Danish Stirling DK has commissioned a four-engine biomass plant at the spa resort of Tabbs in Tabarz, Thuringia, Germany.
The plant, the first of its kind in the world according to the company, is powered by wood chips given from the local area, generating 4,000MWh of heat and 1,000MWh of electricity each year, which is the highest the amount for Stirling DK so far.
The…
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