Mar 19, 2010
Indian JV eyes biodiesel
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Mar 19, 2010
A group of UK companies working under the Carbon Trust aims to start producing biofuel from a pilot plant in 2014 eventually producing over 2 million tonnes a year from UK biomass.
Axion Energy, along with catalytic technologies company Catal International, CARE and technology provider Aquafuel Research, will aim to turn the pyrolysis process into a cheap and green way... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2010
The Indian government has approved further capital investment by biodiesel refiner Australia-based Mission NewEnergy into its Indian feedstock business.
Mission will also continue with the original approved activity of being engaged in the contract farming of jatropha and utilising the jatropha oil for domestic or export markets.
The managing director of Mission Nathan... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2010
A total of $79.75 million (€58.3 million) will be awarded to the GreenField ethanol plant in Varennes, Quebec, Canada, over a period of seven years.
GreenField will receive the funding from the Canadian government’s ecoENERGY for Biofuels programme. ‘What it allows us to do is maintain the right operating margins to support operations,’ said Jean Roberge, the... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2010
After the construction of an ethanol biorefinery began in late 2007 work ceased a year later and Illinois-based Aventine Renewable Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2009 but now things are changing.
The Posey County ethanol plant in Mount Vernon was near completion when the building work was forced to stop due to a rise in the cost of ethanol production.... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2010
The Growing Power Hairy Hill biogas facility’s plans to expand are being supported by the Canadian Government.
Expansion of the existing demonstration-scale biogas plant represents the first phase in developing a larger integrated biorefinery capable of producing products such as green power, bio-fertiliser and fuel ethanol.
The project includes the construction of... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2010
A sewage work upgrade project planned by UK utility provider Thames Water will also introduce an anaerobic digestion process, where solid waste is broken down in enclosed tanks in the absence of oxygen.
This process forms biogas which can be used to generate renewable energy, and it is intended to produce enough energy to power the entire site.
Thames Water began the... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2010
In the US the newly-passed Forest Biomass Supply Agreements Bill (SB 6236) will allow the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to enter into long-term agreements to supply forest biomass from trust lands for energy projects/purposes.
There are approximately 3 million acres of state trust land in Washington.
The bill goes hand-in-hand with HB 2165,... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2010
A new project has been launched in France to produce biodiesel and bio-kerosene.
BioTfueL is composed of five French partners and German engineering company Uhde.
With a global reliance on energy and the need to increase our consumption of renewable resources, the BioTfueL scheme will be the first to meet these requirements with a technically innovative solution.
Uhde... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2010
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, Grupo Bertin is to purchase 71% of sugar and ethanol manufacturing company Infinity Bio-Energy for an undisclosed sum.
After having sold its meat department to JBS SA, Bertin transferred into the renewable energies sector.
The agreement between the two companies is part of Infinity’s judicial recovery proceedings and Bertin will be issued shares... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2010
With 135 million litres of ethanol being manufactured from six sugar factories in India it looks like the country’s production of biofuels is on the up.
The ethanol is blended with petrol in order to comply with India’s 10% ethanol target by the end of 2011. According to the state’s Biofuel Task Force president Y B Ramakrishna, ‘There is a target of increasing... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2010
According to Bio Base Europe the first crop of genetically modified poplar plants will be converted into ethanol in a Flemish-Dutch pilot installation.
The poplars were planted in May 2009 in an outside field in Ghent, Belgium. The crop has now been harvested and is ready to be converted into ethanol at the Bio Base Europe pilot plant.
Located in Ghent, the plant converts... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2010
The state of Iowa, US, has been awarded funding from The Department of Agriculture to help develop biofuels and replace fossil fuels.
US senator Chuck Grassley claimed that the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels would distribute the sum of $1.6 million (€1.2 million) to the state.
Grassley said it was highly encouraging to witness The Department of Agriculture... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2010
Wisconsin, US-based wind farm operator We Energies is looking to build a biomass plant.
The company has filed an application with state regulators to build a $255 million (€185 million) biomass power plant near Wausau.
The project would supply steam to Domtar’s paper mill in Rothschild and create up to 150 jobs.
The 50MW power plant would generate enough power... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2010
A plant proposed for the city of Gretna, Florida, US, has been suspended for a period of six months.
The proposal was filed by Adage and the company has requested for the state Department of Environmental Protection to delay working on its application. Work has halted work on the Gretna project.
Proposal for the refinery was submitted in December 2009 but received negative... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2010
US-based Vega Promotional Systems has signed a five-year agreement with ECEM Salzburg Energy and Environment Consulting to sell its biocoal.
Vega is currently building a 40,000 square foot biomass production plant in Georgia, US, that when completed will process biomass to produce 125,000 tonnes of biocoal every year.
Austria-based ECEM has agreed to purchase 100% of... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2010
Grain merchandiser KAAPA Grains plans to develop its existing grain storage and drying facilities at Elm Creek, Nebraska, US.
The expansion, expected to cost around $10.3 million (€7.5 million), will include a 300-by-475 foot steel grain warehouse that will have an estimated capacity of 4.2 bushels of grain.
It will take six months to build and construction will begin... [Read More]
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