Oct 9, 2014
Green Fuel's E20 blending scheduled for April 2015
Bioethanol News
Oct 9, 2014
Biochemtex and Beta Renewables signed a contract with Energochemica for the construction of a second generation ethanol plant in the Slovak Republic.
The plant, which will be built in Strazske, Slovak Republic, will deliver 55,000 metric tonnes per year of cellulosic ethanol while using non-food biomass as its feedstock.
The project begins immediately and the start-up... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 9, 2014
Four of the top terminal operators in Germany: Vopak, Simon Storage, Oiltanking and Tanquid will all be coming together on the 19-20 November in Hamburg to discuss the country's bulk liquid storage market.
Germany has the third largest storage capacity in Europe, but with the storage market in backwardation, refineries closing and strong competition, terminals need to... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 7, 2014
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will give a $91 million (€72 million) loan guarantee to help Cool Planet Energy Systems build a new biofuel plant in Louisiana.
The facility will be built at the Port of Alexandria, Louisiana, and will produce renewable fuels and biochar, a bioenergy by-product. Pine chips will be converted into high octane petrol and aromatic... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Oct 7, 2014
Argentina's cooperatives association (Aca-Bio) has started work on a $130 million ethanol plant outside the city of Villa María.
The plant will process 380,000 tonnes per year of corn, which will produce 125,000 cubic metres per year of biofuel.
Excess steam will power a turbine that will then be used to power the plant.
Operations will start in February. ... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Oct 7, 2014
Zimbabwe’s energy sector regulator plans to licence new ethanol producers to avoid dependency on single supplier Green Fuel (GF).
Under the country’s mandatory blending policy, only GF can license or is accredited to trade the commodity for petrol blending purposes.
The current law states that an ethanol producer for mandatory blending has to be in partnership... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 3, 2014
EU authorities has given the go ahead for Airbus' new long-haul A350 plane to start flying.
Deliveries of the next-generation aircraft will be sent to its first client Qatar Airways shortly.
The new A350 plane has been manufactured to help the European airline catch up with Boeing's efforts to create long-haul, fuel-efficient planes.
Using light composite materials, the... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 3, 2014
Cellulosic ethanol production could help create up to 9 million cellulosic D3 renewable identification numbers (RINs) in 2014, if active plants reach full capacity, suggests Genscape.
Data and market specialist Genscape has released its white paper, Outlook for 2014 cellulosic production and D3 RINs, which looks at the current state of biofuels. In the paper, the company... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 2, 2014
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is expected to spend up to $25 million (€19.8 million) on improving algae production and development.
The Department is working on reducing the costs of algae biofuel down below $5-per-gallon equivalent in petrol by 2019 by improving current technologies. If that doesn't seem very ambitious compare that to the state of play without... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 2, 2014
Crop company Agrisoma Biosciences has finished the first closing of its Series A financing round, expected to total $8 million through 2014.
Cycle Capital Management led the financing round, which included participation of BDC Venture Capital, one of Agrisoma's current equity investors.
Certified sustainable by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), Carinata... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
International aviation group Lufthansa and sustainable energy specialists JatroSolutions have signed an MoU to make the production of jatropha commercially viable.
Lufthansa will help the start-up company set up a raw materials supply chain to ensure the provision of biosynthetic fuel derived from the jatropha plant.
Joachim Buse, VP, Aviation Biofuel at Lufthansa, says:... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has filed comments with the European Commission (EC) challenging blocked US biodiesel exports to Europe.
Since 2009, the EC has prevented biodiesel exports trading from US to Europe, a move that the NBB calls 'unfair'.
NBB urges the EC to allow duties on US biodiesel imports to expire this year planned, arguing that global trade for biodiesel... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 30, 2014
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved permits for Archer Daniels Midland's ethanol plant.
The permits enable the underground injection and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from an ethanol plant.
Issued under the relatively new Underground Injection Control Program Class VI, the permits are expected to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 30, 2014
KazMunayGas Trading has lost its court case against Austrian oil company OMV Petrom.
The product and supplies company will have to pay over $70 million (€56 million) to Romanian tax administration agency ANAF, for contentious biodiesel imports from Canada originating in the US.
This sum was awarded for recovering losses generated by the OLAF investigation and the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 29, 2014
Green Fuel's ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe, is reportedly discharging harmful waste matter.
Zimbabwe's parliament has heard how the waste matter has reportedly caused some people to become partially blind, while others are developing feet sores.
Appearing before a parliamentary committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Empowerment, Mutsa Chasi, head of Environmental... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 26, 2014
A minor fire broke out earlier this week at Archer Daniels Midland's ethanol plant in Peoria, Illinois, US.
At approximately 11.30 am on 22 September, an evaporator vessel that was down for repairs caught fire at the company's corn processing plant in Peoria. This then activated the sprinkler system, which contained the fire.
There were no injuries and the plant is now... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 26, 2014
GranBio Investimentos, a Brazilian biotechnology company, has started production at its cellulosic ethanol plant in Alagoas, Brazil.
The company invested $190 million (€149 million) in the facility, which is the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the southern hemisphere.
The Bioflex 1 plant has the capacity to produce 82 million litres per year of... [Read More]
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