Oct 21, 2011
BenchMark Energy buys half of Energy Partners
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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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Oct 10, 2011
FuturaGene, a company dedicated to enhancing the yield and sustainability of woody crops for biofuels and biopower, and Guangxi Academy of Sciences (GXAS) have entered into a development agreement.
Under the agreement, FuturaGene and GXAS, which is primarily focussed on bioenergy research and the development of non-food crops, will develop and optimise second generation... [Read More]
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Oct 7, 2011
A Boeing 757 flew from Birmingham Airport, UK to Lanzarote on 6 October, on a 50/50 blend of bio-jet fuel derived from cooking oil and conventional jet fuel.
The one-off Thomson Airways flight took off at 2.25pm. Two hundred and thirty-two passengers were on board, making it Britain's first biofuel powered commercial flight.
Thomson hopes to make biofuel flights a regular... [Read More]
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Oct 6, 2011
Biodiesel producer Argent Energy Group has been awarded £7 million (€8.1 million) from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to help fund its development.
Argent secured £4 million from RBS and £2.95 million from the bank's asset financing division, Lombard.
The banking package includes the provision of debt and full-money transmission services. Lombard... [Read More]
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