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The US District Court for Delaware has entered a final judgement in one of the court battles between Butamax Advanced Biofuels and Gevo.
The long running dispute between the two isobutanol producers, over claims about patent infringements (catchily named 188 Patent and 889 Patent for ease of reference), was settled on 10 April in favour of Gevo.
‘It is hereby ordered and adjudged that final…
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TMO Renewables a UK developer of second generation biofuels technology, and Brazil-based Usina Santa Maria (USM) have entered a joint venture to build a commercial second generation production plant in São Paulo.
Under the agreement TMO, with USM, will build, own and operate the 10 million litre ethanol pilot plant in São Paulo using sugarcane bagasse, with construction…
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Extreme Biodiesel has entered talks to acquire fellow California-based Promethean Biofuels in a move to increase its presence in the sector.
PB is a co-operative corporation and, apart from the used motor oil and waste vegetable oil collection, its products and services are only available to members of the co-operative.
‘This relationship between us and Promethean has flourished over the…
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Canada saw the official launch of the Growing Forward 2 (GF2) policy framework for Canada's agricultural and agri-food sector this April.
And the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA) has applauded this launch as ‘good news’ for its industry and for the farmers who work closely with biofuels producers.
GF2 is a CN$3 billion (€2.2 billion) investment by federal, provincial…
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An ethanol plant in North Dakota, US is to be dismantled despite optimistic rescue plans.
The Alchem corn-to-ethanol plant, based in Grafton, opened in 1985 but closed in 2007. An energy investment group located in Iowa mooted plans to purchase the facility last year but the idea didn’t come to fruition.
This news follows the closure of another ethanol plant in North Dakota, the former ADM…
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Zimbabwe has increased biofuel awareness by approving an E85 blend suitable for the country’s flexi-vehicles.
The blend will contain a 15% unleaded petrol content and is hoped to lower the price of fuel throughout the country, which at the moment stands between $1.51 (€1.15) and $1.59 a litre.
‘The quality specification of E85 conforms to Standard Association of Zimbabwe Standard…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency announced in April that 77.6 million gallons of biodiesel were produced in February.
Biodiesel in the US has exceeded targets under the Renewable Fuel Standard for two consecutive years and the new numbers show a total of more than 80.4 million gallons of biomass-based diesel for February, but that total also includes renewable diesel production.
With the…
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce competition between food and fuel as it implements the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The science group submitted its recommendation at the start of April with comments on the EPA’s proposed biofuel mandate volumes for 2013. EPA’s proposal calls for so-called…
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Palm oil reserves in Malaysia took the steepest drop in number in more than two years this March.
A report by Bloomberg believes inventories declined by 7% to 2.27 million tonnes from February, the steepest monthly drop since January 2011. These details were pulled from estimates from two plantation companies and four analysts. Exports however went up by 2.1% to 1.4 million tonnes.
The decline…
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Papaya feedstock will play a role in a biofuels and animal feed project in Hawaii that has just received government funds.
The state has invested $200,000 (€153,800) into a conversion project with Florida-based Biotork Hawaii via its USDA Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Centre.
The conversion process, which can now move to pilot stage, takes two weeks and uses organically optimised algae…
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New government figures have revealed 2012 was a strong year for renewable energy generation in the UK.
A report released at the end of March put the UK’s generated electricity from renewables last year at 11.3% overall, and 12.5% in the fourth quarter.
It is believed much of this growth is due to new generating projects coming online across all renewable sectors, with biomass input…
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A study in Spain has pinpointed dinoflagellate microalgae as an ‘easy and profitable way’ of creating biodiesel.
The research was led by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council, and claims that the oft ignored type of marine algae is suitable for cultivation with biodiesel in mind.
Over the course…
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A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reveals that Brazil, if recent trends continue, will be unable to meet its domestic light vehicle demand for fuel as soon as 2017.
The report states that demand could outstrip supply by as much as 9 to 12 billion litres per year by 2021, equivalent to 20% of Brazil’s demand, and that the country must either make substantial new…
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Full details of the sentence received by Jeffrey Gunselman, the man behind over $40 million (€31.2 million) worth of RIN fraud, have been revealed.
The West Texas native has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison and ordered to pay out $55 million in restitution by a federal judge.
In a story followed by Biofuels International, Gunselman started a bogus biodiesel company named…
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Spain-based sustainable technologies provider Abengoa has seen operations at a demo plant that uses its waste-to-biofuels technology begin.
The facility, located in Salamanca, has capacity to treat 25,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste to produce around 1.5 million litres of bioethanol.
The infrastructure of the plant has gone through more than 6,000 continuous hours of tests to validate the…
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