Feb 3, 2011
Italy's biodiesel output hurt by imports
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Feb 3, 2011
UK-based alternative energy company Goes on Green has acquired a biodiesel plant in the Netherlands.
Located in Sluiskil, the 250,000 tonne-a-year facility was acquired by BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions.
Also included in the transaction is the plant's deep water storage loading/unloading berth, 250,000m3 of storage capacity and fully integrated logistics.
24 new jobs will... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2011
Ohio, US-based environmental services provider Environmental Quality Management (EQM) and Beacon Energy Holdings, a producer of biodiesel, located in Cleburne, Texas, have signed a definitive merger agreement.
Upon the closure of the agreement, EQM will merge with Beacon and become its wholly owned subsidiary.
Beacon will be named EQM Technologies & Energy.
Upon completion... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2011
The EU's 2020 renewable energy targets will be met and exceeded, according to the European Commission, if each country fully implements its renewable energy model and improves financial support, including grants, loans, feed in tariffs and certificate regimes.
If renewable energy is to be integrated into the European market as a whole, support between the individual member... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2011
In Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company has submitted a request for an annual supply of 3 to 7 million gallons of biodiesel.
The biodiesel will power the 100MW Campbell Estate Industrial Park generating station – one of the world's largest commercial-scale power plants to be 100% fuelled by biodiesel.
250,000 gallons of the biofuel supply will go towards powering... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2011
Between March and September 2011 Thailand's government will launch an E95 bus fleet trial to test the viability of replacing the current diesel- and LNG-fuelled buses with a 95% ethanol blend.
1.3 million litres a day of ethanol are consumed by the nation today, but the government is hoping to ramp this up to 9 million litres a day by 2022.
The buses used in the trial... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2011
The European Union has approved the SEK 500 million (€55 million) grant from the Swedish Energy Agency that will help fund the construction of a biorefinery in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.
The industrial scale demonstration biofuel plant, based on technology provider Chemrec's gasification technology, will be located at the Domsjö Fabriker. It will produce... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2011
In a bid to become a key player in the biodiesel sector, biodiesel producer Australian Renewable Fuels Limited will acquire its largest competitor Biodiesel Producers Limited.
The acquisition includes Biodiesel Producers' production plant, installed with technology capable of converting tallow and waste cooking oil into biodiesel.
The facility is sited in Barnawartha,... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2011
Lincoln Park Capital Fund has agreed to invest up to $10 million (€7.3 million) into BlueFire Renewables, a producer of renewable fuels via non-food cellulosic wastes.
The investment, which will be spread out over 30 months, will go towards new developments by BlueFire, improving its processing capabilities.
The round of funding comes following a busy year for BlueFire.... [Read More]
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Jan 25, 2011
Brazilian ethanol producer Copersucar has partnered with the JAG – Jamal Al-Ghurair Group to form a new shipping company which will deliver ethanol and sugar around the world.
The two companies will hold a 50% share in the new business, Copa Shipping Company, exporting 600 million litres of ethanol and five million tonnes of sugar throughout its first year of operation.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 25, 2011
A new 30 million gallon a year biorefinery is to be built in Port Arthur, Texas, following a deal between Endicott Biofuels (EBF) and KMTEX.
The site is to use EBF’s technology to produce the biodiesel and KMTEX will provide the project with construction and operational services. Haddington Ventures has funded the development, on which construction is due to begin... [Read More]
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Jan 24, 2011
The US Department of Energy is handing out $650 million (€479 million) in loans for new biofuels refineries as part of the government’s overall $17.5 billion (€12.9 billion) plan to support 18 clean energy projects around the country.
A renewable diesel plant to be built in the south of the US and a Florida bioenergy centre are two of the projects to receive... [Read More]
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Jan 21, 2011
Canada-based waste to biofuels producer Enerkem has been given an $80 million (€59 million) loan guarantee by the US Department of Agriculture to go towards building a new waste-to-biofuels project in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
The new development will help to transform municipal solid waste from the north-east of the region into ethanol.
The loan comes after the... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2011
In the US petroleum refiner and marketer Valero Energy Corporation has signed a letter of intent that could see it invest up to $50 million (€37 million) in innovative biofuels company, Lebanon, New Hampshire-based Mascoma Corporation.
Together with Mascoma's operating subsidiary Frontier Renewable Resources, jointly owned with natural resource management company... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2011
Four projects looking into the development of biodiesel in Colorado have been awarded grants under the Advancing Colorado’s Renewable Energy (ACRE) programme.
The programme has awarded 15 grants totalling $600,000 (€444,670) in a bid to encourage projects that add value to agricultural products.
As Tom Lipetzky, CFO at the Colorado Department of Agriculture,... [Read More]
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Jan 19, 2011
A new company has been set up in Australia that will produce biofuels from algae at commercial-scale.
Muradel Pty is a joint venture between Murdoch University, Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty, and SQC Pty.
Murdoch University will bring to the company its knowledge in the commercial production of algae and algae production, while engineering expertise in algal processing... [Read More]
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Jan 19, 2011
Green Plains Renewable Energy, the fourth largest ethanol producer in the US, has signed an asset purchase agreement with Otter Tail Ag Enterprises to acquire its 55 million gallon-a-year capacity dry-mill ethanol plant near Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
The proposed transaction is anticipated to progress through a court-approved bankruptcy processing initiated by Otter Tail... [Read More]
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