Jan 13, 2016
CropEnergies posts revenue dip due to UK plant closure
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Jan 12, 2016
Second-generation biofuel crops like the perennial grasses Miscanthus and switchgrass can efficiently meet emission reduction targets without significantly displacing cropland used for food production, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Illinois and collaborators published their findings in the inaugural edition of the journal Nature Energy.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 12, 2016
The Governors' Biofuels Coalition, a US ethanol lobby group, has appointed Missouri Governor Jay Nixon as its chairman.
Nixon replaces Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, who led the Coalition from 2014 to 2015.
The trade association also announced that Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts will become vice chairman of the group for 2016.
"For more than 20 years the Governors' Biofuels... [Read More]
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Jan 11, 2016
US-based biofuel and agriculture groups have asked a US court to a review the US Renewable Fuel Standards for 2014, 2015, and 2016, according to a court filing on Friday, kicking off a widely-expected legal battle over the controversial program.
A spokesman for Biotechnology Innovation Organisation told media agency Reuters that groups representing biofuels manufacturers... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2016
Shell India Markets, the Indian arm of Royal Dutch Shell, has announced plans to build a five tonne/day biofuel demonstration plant using IH2 technology on the site of its new technology centre in Bangalore, India.
IH2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermo-chemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2016
Car giant Audi is entering a renewed collaboration agreement with French renewable energy firm Global Bioenergies to promote the development of biofuels.
The two companies recently announced the delivery by Global Bioenergies to Audi of a first batch of isobutene-derived isooctane (using biomass products such as wood chips), a premium drop-in fuel for gasoline engines.
Global... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2016
Republican Party candidate Ted Cruz is due to face criticism from a pro-ethanol lobby group as he conducts a bus tour through Iowa this week, according to media reports.
According to news website Politico, pro-ethanol group America's Renewable Future is hunting the presidential candidate in an attempt to derail his candidacy. The group, which supports the mandate that... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2016
India has doubled its target of blending ethanol with gasoline to 10%, as it aims to promote cleaner fuel to tackle pollution.
According to Reuters, oil companies have never met the current 5% blending target as ethanol derived from molasses - the thick syrup produced by boiling down sugarcane juice in sugar refining - costs more than gasoline without including taxes.... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2016
British Airways (BA) has announced that it has been forced to abandon plans to turn landfill waste into green jet fuel, partly due to lack of government support.
The airliner and green fuels specialist Solena Fuels announced last year that it would move forward with long-standing plans to develop a state-of-the-art facility called GreenSky at an ex-oil refinery in Thurrock,... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2016
The Turley family have bought out their 50% partner in Ethanol Europe Renewables — one of the continent's biggest producers of bioethanol.
The company was a joint venture between the Turleys and Fagen, an American developer of energy plants.
According to The Sunday Times, accounts show that the Turley family, who made more than €100m from the sale of the online... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2016
Researchers from US-based Indiana University have developed a virus-like biomaterial that catalyses the formation of hydrogen for the production of biofuels.
The biomaterial or 'nano-reactor', as scientists at Indiana University describe it, is produced by placing a modified enzyme inside the protective protein shell of a virus, called a capsid.
The resulting 'nano reactor'... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2016
Bioenergy France 3, the French arm of Spanish biofuels producer Ambene, has obtained permission from local officials to build a 41MW biomass-fired cogeneration plant in the south of France.
According to SeeNews, the plant will be constructed in the Torremila industrial zone of Perpignan.
At the end of December, the Pyrenees-Orientales prefecture gave the green light to... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jan 5, 2016
Kolmar Group, a Switzerland-based petrochemicals specialist, has acquired a biodiesel plant in Connecticut, US.
The company bought the Greenleaf Biofuels facility via its US arm and hopes to expand into the renewable energy sector, according to Bloomberg.
The plant, now called American GreenFuels, marks Kolmar's first foothold in physical production.
It is expected that... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
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]
Biodiesel News
Dec 18, 2015
Z Energy, a New Zealand energy producer has moved towards completing New Zealand’s first commercial scale biodiesel plant in Wiri, Auckland, with the installation of a biodiesel distillation column.
The plant, which will move into the testing phase early next year, will turn inedible tallow, a by-product of the New Zealand meat industry, into 20 million litres of... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2015
The Port of Seattle, Alaska Airlines, and Boeing are partnering to move toward powering all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) with sustainable aviation biofuel.
Sea-Tac is the first US airport to lay out a long-term roadmap to incorporate aviation biofuel into its infrastructure in a cost-effective, efficient manner.
The three... [Read More]
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