Mar 8, 2016
Abengoa Bioenergy secures emergency bankruptcy loan
Other News
Mar 8, 2016
The world's first research facility to grow both food and fuel just opened in the United Arab Emirates.
Located on a two-hectare site in Abu Dhabi, the desert facility uses coastal seawater irrigation to raise fish and shrimp for food, while growing salt-tolerant plants that can be harvested to create biofuel.
The facility, operated by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Mar 8, 2016
A federal judge in Texas, US, has sentenced the owner of several biodiesel companies to 10 years imprisonment and to pay $138 million (€125m) in restitution for high-profile biofuels fraud.
Philip Joseph Rivkin, who is also known as Felipe Poitan Arriaga, pleaded guilty to creating and selling more than 60 million fake biodiesel credits since 2009 under the name of... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 7, 2016
Florida-based biofuel developer Benchmark Renewable Energy (BRE) is planning to develop a large-scale bioethanol operation in Jamaica.
According to BRE, once completed the plant will have a production capacity of 10 million gpy of ethanol, with an additional 3MW of electricity produced for the local grid.
The required investment for the plant is expected to be approximately... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Mar 4, 2016
The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) has alerted EU and national member state authorities of trade distortions in the EU internal market caused by Polish biodiesel.
According to the EBB, biodiesel products exported from Poland at “unfair” low price levels are breaching EU and national laws, causing tremors in the marketplace.
The organisation claims it has received... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 3, 2016
New records were set in 2015 for US ethanol production and blending, with more than 14 billion gallons of ethanol produced, says the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
According to the EIA data, US ethanol producers churned out 14.81 billion gallons of ethanol in 2015, while refiners and blenders integrated an unprecedented 13.69 billion gallons into... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 2, 2016
Novozymes CEO Peder Holk Nielsen has called for the EU to introduce a blending mandate for advanced biofuels by 2030 to help decarbonise the transport sector.
The chief executive of the biotech specialist made the announcement at an energy security conference which took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 February, 2016.
He urged the EU to promote advanced... [Read More]
Other News
Mar 1, 2016
Algal biofuel production is not living up to expectations, hindered by high key resource demand, technical difficulties, and high costs, a new study finds.
According to a review by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), despite high expectations and extensive research and investment, technological options are still in developing stages and key resources for... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 29, 2016
A group of environmental groups in the UK are calling on the next Mayor of London to commit to making the capital's buses run on clean fuel.
The NGOs, including Greenpeace, WWF, RSPB and the National Trust, have drawn together 20 policy suggestions to improve London's environment and will publish them today to mark the start of Greener London Week. Suggestions include... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 25, 2016
Spanish renewable energy business Abengoa has announced that its US bioenergy unit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The company made the announcement on Wednesday (24 February). According to news agency Reuters, the firm's US bioenergy unit has current liabilities worth $10bn.
The filings do not include Abengoa's corn ethanol plants in Mount Vernon, Indiana, and Madison,... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 25, 2016
Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that an enzyme can be tweaked to reduce lignin in plants.
According to Berkeley Lab, its technique could help lower the cost of converting biomass into carbon-neutral fuels to power cars and other sustainably developed bio-products.
Lignin... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 24, 2016
JP Energy Partners, a US-based biofuels terminal operator, has initiated the expansion of its existing rail facilities at its North Little Rock refined products terminal, located in Arkansas, to allow for unit train deliveries of ethanol.
The upgrades will materially improve the terminal's ethanol offloading efficiency and capacity, allowing for offloading of up to 108... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 24, 2016
Africa has become the new frontier for innovative non-food crop based biofuels' projects, according to a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
The report, 'Second-Generation Biofuel Markets: State of Play, Trade and Developing Country Perspectives', says that these initiatives are mainly taking place in Eastern and Southern Africa... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 23, 2016
Researchers have revealed through a new study that fungi from the gut of herbivores like goats, horses and sheep could be used to make biofuel.
The researchers report in the journal Science that these anaerobic gut fungi perform as well as the best fungi engineered by industry in their ability to convert plant material into sugars that are easily transformed into fuel... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 19, 2016
Clariant, a Swiss specialty chemicals producer, and Werner & Mertz (W&M), the producer of Frosch cleaning products, has launched a project which expands the possible applications of bioethanol.
Clariant’s sunliquid cellulosic ethanol – made from agricultural residues such as straw – will be processed into detergents, cleansers and cleaning agents... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 17, 2016
Alliance BioEnergy Plus has formed a strategic alliance with Harvesting Technology (HT) for the inclusion of its licensed and patented advanced separation process.
Alliance plans to utilise the separation technology alongside its CTS cellulose conversion process in ethanol applications.
When used in a dry mill corn ethanol plant, the HT process is able to separate... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 17, 2016
The government of Argentina has more than doubled export taxes on biodiesel, further distressing the industry already suffering from low oil prices and closed markets.
The export taxes were increased in February to 3.89pc from 1.62pc in January, which were the lowest since the government implemented a sliding-scale system of export duties for the biofuel in 2012.
The biodiesel... [Read More]
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