Mar 26, 2010
Malaysia will use biodiesel by next year
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Mar 26, 2010
In Angola, Africa, the production of biofuels will now be regulated with a new law approved by the national parliament that requires foreign biofuels producers to sell a share of their fuel to state oil company Sonangol to meet local needs.
It is hoped that the law will contribute towards helping Angola become less reliant on fossil fuels as ethanol produced by the project... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2010
Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International magazine, and here Jaroslav Pesek, head of the quality department and strategic reserves at Czech state-run pipeline and storage terminal operator CEPRO, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
CEPRO... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2010
A Californian company has developed a large-scale jatropha farming initiative in Central America.
SG Biofuels also entered into the first project with the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) to test and enhance sustainability standards for jatropha cultivation.
The SG Biofuels/RSB pilot will evaluate the practicality and usability of RSB sustainability standards... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2010
The Netherlands-based energy major Shell has started up its biopetrol demonstration facility in Madison, Wisconsin, US.
The plant is the outcome of a joint biopetrol research and development effort between Shell and Wisconsin’s Virent Energy Systems.
The plant is billed as the world’s first demonstration plant converting plant sugars into petrol and petrol blend... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2010
US-based Terra Energy Resources is a step closer to acquiring an oil terminal in Pennsylvania.
The company plans to turn the 24,000 gallon facility into a biodiesel production facility for use in home heating fuel while taking advantage of incentives offered by the state of Pennsylvania for production of alternative fuels.
This acquisition will include land, buildings,... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2010
UK chancellor Alistair Darling will announce a £1 billion (€1.1 billion) fund to inject investment in green transport and energy projects.
The UK government is committed to reducing UK carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and so changes in infrastructure and power generation will be needed over the coming decades.
The Labour Government hopes to upgrade the transport system... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
In North Carolina, US, the city of Charlotte’s first biomass power plant is due to be complete by 31 December.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved a $12 million (€8.87 million) 3.2MW proposed facility by Orbit Energy Filings with the commission that Orbit intends to sell the energy produced, a total of 23 gigawatt-hours annually, to Duke Energy for... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
A new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Suffolk, UK, will convert business food waste into bioenergy to heat homes and power cars.
The facility which will be the first of its kind to generate renewable energy for the gas grid, will be sited on land owned by Southwold-based independent brewery Adnams, which will use the facility to recycle its brewery waste. Food waste... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January has meant a desperate lack of sanitation facilities but now Brazilian group Viva Rio is turning human excrement into biogas for use as fuel.
The Kay Nou camp in Port-au-Prince is one of many to have flourished in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince since the earthquake. The camps are absorbing many of the estimated... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
Vancouver-based Fortress Paper will buy a disused pulp mill in Quebec and spend $153 million (€111 million) to reopen it as a biomass plant.
A 25MW power plant fed by waste from its operations and from an extensive local network of chip and other biomass suppliers is expected to begin supplying electricity by late 2012. The company further plans to begin production... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Jan Stambasky (JS), executive board member of the European Biogas Association, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
Founded just a year ago the association is growing fast,... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
Vietnam state president Nguyen Minh Triet attended a ceremony for the construction of an ethanol plant in Minh Hung commune, Bu Dang district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc.
The $81 million (€60 million) ethanol plant, which has the capacity to produce 100 million litres of ethanol annually, will utilise 240,000 tonnes of dried cassava.
The company hopes that... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
Based in Adamsville, Ohio, US firm Farmers’ Ethanol is planning an investment of $135 million (€100 million) to build a bioethanol refinery in Smederevo, Serbia.
Farmers’ Ethanol spokesperson Maja Fragner explains that the plant would create 200 factory jobs, while another 5,000 will be employed to grow the raw materials needed for the biofuel refinery.
‘Farmers’... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2010
Overall production of ethanol will increase by 16.2% this year resulting in 85.9 billion litres being manufactured.
This rise in ethanol production will see more than one million barrels of biofuels a day replace 370 million barrels of oil this year, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) forecasts.
With over 45 billion litres of ethanol expected to be manufactured... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2010
KLM, a Dutch airline operator and part of Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM, is aiming to offer flights to the public that will use biofuels.
In November 2009 a 90 minute KLM aeroplane flew over the Netherlands in a Boeing 747.
During this flight one out of the three engines used a 50:50 biofuels blend while the other two ran on 100% kerosene.
According to Peter Hartman,... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2010
In California Envirepel Energy plans to reopen the company’s first renewable energy facility after it temporarily closed in June last year to deal with a shareholder proxy effort.
The company hopes the facility, which generates 2.5MW of power from biomass resources, will be operational again by the middle of April 2010.
The plant, which was built in the centre of... [Read More]
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