Oct 22, 2011
Greenleaf Biofuels closes full project financing
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Oct 21, 2011
Renewable fuel company Amyris has signed a memorandum of understanding with ethanol producer ETH Bioenergia to produce renewable farnesene called Biofene.
The companies will use up to 2 million tonnes of sugar cane a year, which they will crush at an ETH greenfield mill in Brazil. Although ETH will control the joint venture, Amyris will market the Biofene that is produced... [Read More]
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Oct 21, 2011
Renewable energy company Abengoa is to open a bioethanol plant in Paysandú, Uruguay, after signing a contract with Alcoholes de Uruguay.
The bioethanol plant will produce about 70 million litres of ethanol a year and 50,000 tonnes of distillers grains.
For feedstocks, the plant will use sorghum, maize, barley and wheat; and will process the materials using dry milling... [Read More]
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Oct 21, 2011
Glycerin marketing and refining company BenchMark Energy has acquired 49% of Energy Partners, a renewable energy business that works in the bio-based industry.
Energy Partners is currently in talks with the city of Grand Forks in North Dakota to build a 21,600 square foot glycerin processing facility.
The facility is expected to be complete mid-2012 and will employee 29... [Read More]
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Oct 20, 2011
American energy company One World Clean Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with South African company Pulexilite to produce biodiesel, ethanol, electricity and natural gas from a new integrated biorefinery.
The biorefinery will produce 10MW of electricity each day and 10 million gallons of ethanol and 10 million gallons of biodiesel every year.
The $115 million... [Read More]
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Oct 20, 2011
Biodiesel producer Todays Alternative Energy (TAE), which currently converts leftover cooking oil and grease into biodiesel, says it is to change its strategy to encompass other methods of biodiesel production.
The company wants to tap further into the biodiesel market, which is expected to grow to $185 billion (€134 billion) by 2021 from $82 billion this year.
TAE... [Read More]
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Oct 20, 2011
Bio-based chemicals developer Cobalt Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with chemical company Rhodia to build n-butanol refineries throughout Latin America.
‘We’re planning for the first plant to produce 40,000 metric tonnes of butanol per year,’ Steve Shevick, CFO of Cobalt Technologies, tells Biofuels International.
The technology... [Read More]
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Oct 20, 2011
Although biodiesel production registered moderate growth in 2010, figures disclosed this week have now shown a decline for the first in registered history.
While 2010 EU biodiesel production registered a 5.5% increase compared to the previous year, reaching a level of 9.57 million tonnes, the forecasts for 2011 show a reduction in European production compared to the same... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2011
The market for biofuels will increase by more than two fold by the year 2021 with a rise in production and consumption in the transport sector being the biggest drivers, according to a new report.
The cleantech research firm estimates that the global market for biofuels will increase from $82.7 billion (€59.7 billion) in 2011 to $185.3 billion in just ten years.
The... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2011
Algae.Tec, an algae production company, has received approval for its demonstration facility in Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia.
The facility was approved under the Shoalhaven City Council Environment Planning and Assessment Act and the plant will be used to capture carbon dioxide waste from power stations and manufacturing facilities, feeding the pollution into... [Read More]
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Oct 17, 2011
Zimbabwean ethanol producer Green Fuel was forced to stop production at the beginning of last week because it has reached its storage capacity and was unable to offload the product until it received a trading licence from the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.
However, Green Fuel spokesperson Lilian Muungani said today that they had put the plant back online on Thursday morning.
‘Green... [Read More]
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Oct 14, 2011
Gruppo Mossi and Ghisolfi (M&G), the Italian company behind the construction of the world’s first industrial second generation ethanol producing facility, has created a joint venture with TPG Capital and TPG Biotech to license the company’s Proesa technology, called Beta Renewables.
As part of a €250 million investment into Beta Renewables, the technology... [Read More]
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Oct 13, 2011
In Italy, production capacity is predicted to drop by 18% as growing quantities of cheap imports continue to impact the country's output.
By the end of this year, production is expected to reach 600,000 tonnes, with producers importing palm oil and rapeseed being hit the hardest.
Cheap imports are expected to account for around 70% of Italy's domestic demand this year.
Today,... [Read More]
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Oct 13, 2011
In a new collaboration, energy producer Solena and Scandinavian Airlines System International (SAS) are to develop a bio-jet fuel project at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport.
The project will handle biomass such as MSW. These waste materials is will be gasified, with the resulting syngas being made into renewable aviation fuel.
Following the completion of this project, the... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2011
Simon Storage has installed an ethanol blending system for Mabanaft at the new biofuels blending facility at Simon’s Immingham West Terminal.
Simon says its facility has been built as a response to the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) programme which means more suppliers will be distributing fuels that are made up of a percentage of renewables.
Simon and... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2011
In China, steel producer Shougang Group and its New Zealand-based partner Shougang TangMing are looking to reduce their carbon footprint through the installation of clean energy technology at their steel mills across the world.
Under a joint venture agreement with LanzaTech, Beijing-headquartered Shougang will construct a demo-scale plant at one of its steel mills, before... [Read More]
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Oct 10, 2011
In China, Empire Oil Refineries has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to acquire Promethean Biofuels, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the company.
'We are pleased with the execution of the LOI between Empire and Promethean as it fits into our strategic plan to acquire assets in the biofuel clean energy space,' says Arshad Shah, president and CEO of Empire Oil Refineries.... [Read More]
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