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EXCLUSIVE - The biofuels industry has reiterated its commitment to tackling climate change in light of President Trump’s announcement that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor told Biofuels International: “Biofuels like ethanol stand ready to continue helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions - with or without the Paris deal. In…
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Americans want to know when they’re power is coming from renewable sources, according to a new study from Washington State University (WSU). Interestingly, this concern over energy use isn’t connected to political beliefs, the sociologists behind the research finding both Democrats and Republicans were interested in using non-fossil fuel energy sources. The study, by professor of…
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Biodiesel and bioethanol use is declining in the German oil industry, according to official mineral oil data published by the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control for the first quarter of 2017. Even though German diesel consumption rose by 7.4% to 9.3 million tonnes by March, the share of biodiesel fell by 7% to around 500,000 tonnes. The bioethanol share also fell by 4.4% compared with…
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Finnish advanced biofuels producer Neste is putting a large amount of resources into research on waste and residue raw materials and promoting the circular economy. In addition to biofuels, also bioplastics can be produced from waste and residues in the future. The company is also focusing its raw materials research on waste plastics as a substitute for crude oil in the manufacture of oil…
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Colombian biofuels company Bioenergy will begin selling bioethanol to Bogotá-based oil and gas leader Terpel, according to media reports. According to a report in Finance Colombia, the move marks the beginning of the Bioenergy’s commercialisation process. Bioenergy has the capacity to produce up to 504,000 litres of ethanol per day, which will increase the mixing of this product…
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More consumers in the UK are purchasing petrol and electric vehicles and shunning diesel cars. Diesel car sales fell by around 20,000 from just under 102,000 in May 2016 to 81,489 last month. In the same period, sales of petrol cars increased slightly to 96,518.  A total of 8,258 vehicles using hybrid and electric motors were sold in May 2017, compared to 5,630 the same time last year. The…
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Spanish renewables and engineering company Abengoa has completed the sale of its bioethanol operations in Spain and France to private equity firm Trilantic Europe. The buyout firm has acquired the shares of Abengoa Bioenergy France , Biocarburantes de Castilla y Leoon , Bioetanol Galicia , Ecocarburantes Espanoles and Ecoagriicola for  € 140 million, including debt and working…
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The global energy transition needs to speed up in order to tackle climate change, according to industry experts. The energy revolution will also not be “smooth” and will be driven largely by disruptive consumers as they run towards decentralised generation. That was the overall conclusion theme reached by energy professionals during the first session of yesterday’s (24 May,2017)…
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The renewable energy sector employs 9.8 million people worldwide, according to a newly published study from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). “Falling costs and enabling policies have steadily driven up investment and employment in renewable energy worldwide since IRENA’s first annual assessment in 2012, when just over seven million people were working in the…
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Aemetis has announced that its India-based subsidiary Universal Biofuels has signed a three-year biofuels supply agreement with BP Singapore (BPS), the regional trading arm of BP, which has an expanding biofuels portfolio.   "The agreement sets forth the logistics, pricing and other terms of the supply to BPS of low carbon biodiesel," said Eric McAfee, chairman and CEO of Aemetis. "We expect…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has published its Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN) generation data for April 2017. Created in 2005 under that year’s Energy Policy Act, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a national policy requiring a certain volume of renewable fuel to replace or reduce the quantity of petroleum-based transportation fuel, heating oil of jet fuel. Four…
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UPM Biofuels has received an RSB (Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) certificate for its UPM BioVerno renewable diesel and naphtha and its production sidestreams turpentine and pitch (resin). RSB verifies the sustainability and reliability of feedstock sourcing and production.  In RSB certification, the sustainability of biofuels is evaluated against 12 principles which…
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Bioenergy researchers are looking for ways to increase the efficiency of biofuel production in an unusual place – fungi. Finding a cost-effective way to breakdown bioenergy crops is one of the biggest obstacles to sustainable biofuels production. A team from the University of California, Santa Barbara are focusing their research on the estimated 1.5 million species of fungi on earth which…
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