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Oil giant BP has announced that it will buy Clean Energy Fuels Corp.’s biomethane business for $155 million (€147m). Clean Energy Fuels is a US provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America.  In a statement, BP said that the deal enables both companies to accelerate the growth in renewable natural gas supply and meet the growing demand of the natural gas vehicle…
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US biofuels technology company ICM will build a biorefinery showcasing its technology. The company said its plant will be called ICM Element. In a statement, ICM said: “We see every individual as an integral element to the success of the planned 70 MMGY revolutionary plant estimated at a cost of $175 million (€166m) to build. ICM plans to be the majority owner and is in current…
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California-based sustainable energy production company Greenbelt Resources Corp. has unveiled a new waste-to-energy interconnected system designed to produce half a million gallons of bioethanol from a variety of feedstocks. The system is called Paso Robles ECOsystem (PRECO). PRECO utilises such feedstocks as waste trub from the nearby Firestone Brewery and winery wastes from the over 310…
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Spanish oil and gas firm Cepsa has formalised the purchase offer of Abengoa’s biodiesel plant in San Roque (Cádiz). The process concluded with Abengoa’s acceptance of Cepsa’s €8 million binding offer for the total purchase of the asset. With this operation, Cepsa culminates the integration of the biofuels production unit at its San Roque plant where fuels are…
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Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has said that he has been assured President Donald Trump’s administration will support producers of ethanol and biodiesel fuels, according to media reports. According to the Des Moines Reporter, Branstad was aware of reports to change the point of obligation in relation to the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). "I know the rumors and I can tell you who was…
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German bioethanol producer CropEnergies has increased its forecast for the current financial year 2016/17. In a statement, the company said that the main reasons for the better earnings were “spot prices for bioethanol which continue to be significantly higher than the previously expected forward prices as well as the high capacity utilisations in all four production plants”. With…
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US advanced biofuels company has announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with HCS Holding (HCS) to supply isooctane under a five-year offtake agreement.  HCS is a manufacturer of specialty products and solutions in the hydrocarbons sector, operating under the brands Haltermann Carless, ETS Racing Fuels and EOS.  HCS is owned by HIG Capital.  Haltermann Carless,…
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There have been at least four major power outages in several states in Australia over the last 5 months impacting millions of customers due the country’s switch from fossil fuels to renewable sources, according to UK-based union GMB. GMB, the union for workers in the energy sector in the UK, is calling on the UK and devolved governments as well as Ofgem and National Grid as well as the…
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The Rwandan government is abandoning a $35 million (€33m) biodiesel pilot project, according to a report in The East African. Officials of the National Industrial Research and Development Agency (NIRDA) told Rwanda Today that the government decided to ditch the project after realising it was not viable. NIRDA director-general Joseph Mungarurire cites difficulty in finding raw…
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Overall global biofuel output is projected to reach 67 billion gallons per year (BGY) by 2022, from the 59 billion gallons achieved in 2016. According to a fresh market report by Lux Research, new biofuel technology is “finally” starting to push aside traditional biofuels, such as first-generation biodiesel. New facilities based on non-food feedstocks and producing novel fuels account…
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Argentina has the potential double its current 12% ethanol blending mandate in the next two to three years, according to a government official. Nestor Roulet, secretary of added value at the Argentinian Ministry of Agriculture, told Reuters that the South American country’s annual ethanol consumption could rise to 2 million m3, which could help Argentina reduce its energy deficit. "The…
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US ethanol company ACE Ethanol has received a pilot facility which uses patented cellulosic ethanol technology from D3MAX. The pilot facility will be installed at ACE Ethanol’s Wisconsin plant in late February. Installation is expected to be complete by mid-March with start-up and testing at the facility taking place over the ensuing two months. “We are very excited to take this next…
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Pacific Ethanol, a US renewable fuels producer, and Edeniq, a biorefining and cellulosic technology company, have announced that they have entered into a technology licensing and purchase agreement to enable the production of cellulosic ethanol at Pacific Ethanol’s Madera, California plant using Edeniq’s Pathway and Cellunator technologies. The Madera plant has a total annual…
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