Apr 14, 2011
Heaven Petroleum invests in jatropha
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Apr 14, 2011
In Mount Vernon, Indiana, US, ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy's ethanol plant was officially opened on 6 April 2011.
The news comes after construction came to an end when Aventine became bankrupt. However it recovered in March 2010 and construction on the Mount Vernon facility commenced.
Building work on the project finished in November 2010 and operations began... [Read More]
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Apr 14, 2011
'Renewable energy systems', as defined in the Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP), will now also include flexible fuel pumps, which the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will fund the installation of.
The new rule, which was announced by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on 8 April 2011, is expected to encourage more installations of these 'blender pumps', which... [Read More]
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Apr 14, 2011
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to award bioenergy and biobased products with research grants in order to further the development of sustainable projects.
After the selection process, the chosen projects will implement sustainable regional systems for the production of biofuels.
The projects to receive the grant aree based in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California,... [Read More]
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Apr 14, 2011
In Dunaföldvár, Hungary, a US-Irish collaboration is due to finish the construction of its ethanol production facility by 1 March 2012.
Costing $200 million (€139 million) to build, the plant is being developed by Pannonia Ethanol, a joint venture between Minnesota, US-based Fagen and Irish company Europe Ethanol.
Upon completion, the plant will manufacture... [Read More]
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Apr 13, 2011
M&G, a Novozymes partner, conducted the groundbreaking ceremony for an ethanol plant on 12 April 2011.
Located in Crescentino, Italy, the production facility will produce 13 million gallons a year of cellulosic ethanol from wheat straw, energy crops and other forms of biomass. It is due to start production in 2012.
'Laying the foundation for the world's first commercial-scale... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2011
Energy supplier Sprague Energy of White Plains, New York, in the US, and privately owned Biodico have launched a pilot programme – Bio Genset – that will encourage the use of biodiesel and biodiesel blends in diesel-powered generators and power units, with a goal to reduce emissions from diesel fuel generators, decrease the dependence on foreign oil and promote... [Read More]
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Apr 7, 2011
South Africa's AGZAM Project Developers has made one of the largest investments into a sector outside of the mining industry, in Zambia.
The company is planning to build a $251 million (€175.65 million) sugar and ethanol facility after it signed a deal with the nation at the end of March 2011.
Work on the biofuel plant is slated to begin in May this year before operations... [Read More]
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Apr 7, 2011
In the US, Decatur, Illinois-based biofuels producer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is to buy a soyabean crushing and biodiesel production plant, located in Deerfield, Missouri.
ADM is acquiring the facility from Prairie Pride, in addition to collaborating with the biodiesel and soya mill producer for the biodiesel side of the business.
'The acquisition of Prairie Pride's... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2011
In Dai Tan Commune in Dai Loc District, Vietnam's largest ethanol plant opened on 2 April 2011.
Dong Xanh owns and operates the plant, which produces 125 million litres of ethanol annually from locally grown cassava.
The plant cost in excess of VND600 billion (€20 million) to construct.
In addition to providing work for around 20,000 cassava farmers, the new development... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2011
In Fort Dodge, Iowa, US, producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services Cargill has acquired a corn wet mill ethanol plant from Tate & Lyle.
The facility's current annual production capacity stands at 115 million gallons of ethanol from 150,000 bushels of corn a day.
Speaking about the purchase, Alan Willits, Cargill Corn... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2011
Tharaldson Ethanol's plant in Casselton, North Dakota, has become the seventh-largest ethanol production facility in the US.
The plant began producing ethanol in 2009 and has reached a production capacity of 150 million gallons a year of ethanol to date.
When operations commenced it could handle around 36 million bushels of locally grown corn a year. Two years later and... [Read More]
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Apr 5, 2011
England has the potential to generate 4% of its electricity needs from short rotation coppice energy crops grown on unused land, according to a study supported by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).
These findings highlight that such crops, including poplar and willow, could help the UK meet its 2020 renewable energy target of 15% of all energy and 30% electricity to... [Read More]
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Apr 5, 2011
Since July 2007, most diesel sold in the Oregon, US-based city of Portland has been blended with 5% biodiesel (B5), and now the rest of the state is catching on.
Oregon has now become the second US state to enforce the B5 mandate, after Minnesota, which first implemented a B2 biodiesel requirement, before this was ramped up to B5. Now Minnesota is reported to be further... [Read More]
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Apr 4, 2011
Interjet and Airbus tested their first Jatropha-based biofuel flight in Mexico on 1 April 2011, using an Airbus A320 aircraft.
The biofuel comes from the local region’s Jatropha plant which is harvested in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico.
The two companies say the main aim of the demonstration flight and the project was to speed up the commercialisation of... [Read More]
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Mar 31, 2011
The US government yesterday outlined its energy security strategy, pledging to fund more production of biofuels for fighter jets, trucks and commercial airliners.
The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the trade organisation representing airlines in the US, says it ‘applauded’ the directive, of which the Department of Energy, the navy and the Department... [Read More]
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Mar 31, 2011
US-based renewable fuels producer Pacific Ethanol released its fourth quarter and year-end 2010 financial results on 28 March 2011. The company sold 50% more ethanol gallons in the fourth quarter of 2010 and increase 57% for all of 2010, compared to the same periods in 2009.
Net sales were $134.2 million (€95 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, compared to $87.9... [Read More]
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