Feb 2, 2010
Impending verdict on Algenol’s biofuel production utility
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Feb 2, 2010
Two internationally renowned companies, Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company, have signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding and will now discuss the possibilities of joining forces and heading into the biomass-to-energy industry.
Mitsubishi, Japan’s largest general trading company has over 200 bases in approximately 80 countries and could join forces... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2010
It will complete an ethanol facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, later this year, but first Spain-headquartered bioethanol producer Abengoa Bioenergy will take up storage space in the port.
In January approximately 65,000 m3 of new tank capacity became available at Caldic in the Europoort area, and was swiftly snapped up by Abengoa to store and handle ethanol produced... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2010
One of the world’s first cellulosic ethanol demonstration facilities has opened in Vonore, Tennessee, in a ribbon-cutting affair, followed by a tour of the 74,000-square-foot plant.
Several hundred visitors gathered to witness the opening of this demo refinery – a partnership between Genera Energy and DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (DDCE) that has the capacity... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2010
In Canada, discarded food from the kitchen table is to be the latest waste product used to generate biofuel.
A $57 million (€41 million) refinery is going to be built in Quebec City and construction will begin this summer.
The federal government is awarding $17.7 million to the construction of this plant, while the province is adding a further $16.5 million. The majority... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2010
In 2008, Georgia Power announced that one of its plants would convert from burning coal to burning woody biomass in an attempt to generate green electricity.
The conversion of Plant Mitchell would make it the largest biomass plant in the country and was given the go-ahead last March by the Georgia Public Service Commission.
Plant Mitchell was due to be operational in... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2010
Leading the way in the development and commercialisation of cellulosic ethanol, Verenium Corporation and energy giant BP have extended their original 18-month partnership.
Scheduled to terminate on 1 February, the collaboration will now expire one month later, on 1 March 2010.
In a joint venture with BP that is expected to be extended yet again during these approaching... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2010
With a string of investments under its belt since 2005, including SiC Processing, Ostara, Hydrodec and Solar Century, growth capital investor Frog Capital’s most recent investee comes in the form of the German company, agri.capital.
Now one of Europe’s largest biogas producers, Munster-based agri.capital employs 130 people over 46 electricity production sites. The... [Read More]
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Jan 29, 2010
The Czech Republic’s largest crude oil processing facility Ceská Rafinérská and the country’s state owned key fuel storage operator and distributor Cepro have both confirmed their participation in the upcoming Biofuels International expo & conference in Prague on 5-6 May.
Both are actively involved in the biofuels sector and will give delegates an insight into... [Read More]
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Jan 29, 2010
It has the air of the exotic around it: palm oil kernels and a volcano appearance, leading observers to forget they were in the moderate climes of the UK.
It is the latest project from Bio Energy Investments, which will begin construction on a volcano-shaped biomass station in late 2010. It will produce energy and heat for more than 100,000 homes in the northeastern town... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2010
In Kansas, a combined cellulosic ethanol and power refinery comes one step closer to construction thanks to the largest European producer of ethanol. Based in Spain, Abengoa Bioenergy, also a large producer of ethanol in the US, has signed an agreement regarding a proposal between these two plants.
Mid-Kansas Electric is a collection of five rural electric companies.... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2010
In Arizona, the Glendale Energy Power Plant is now in full operation. Owned and managed by Glendale Energy, this 2.8MW biogas refinery is located in Glendale city, on a public landfill site.
The customers of APS, Arizona’s largest and longest-serving electricity utility catering to around 1.1 million customers, will receive 100% of this energy.
Consisting of mainly... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2010
In Sweden, thanks to a team effort between Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, and Renova, the country’s first energy efficient garbage truck has been delivered.
It is the first of eight garbage trucks around Sweden to run on biomethane and biodiesel.
CEO of Renova, Sweden’s major recycling company Christian Baarlid said: ‘It is largely thanks to the municipality’s... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2010
In Ione, California, plans are being made to turn a previously coal-powered plant into a generator of green electricity.
During a meeting on January 15, the director of Buena Vista Biomass Power (BVBP) Jesus Arredondo said that the refinery could be latest provider of green electricity.
The company, having already invested $15 million, is aiming for the plant to reopen... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2010
A Californian ethanol plant could soon start grinding again.
The former $130 million (€92.2 million) Cilion ethanol plant in Keyes is expected to be in operation again by the end of March after AE Biofuels took up the lease.
Leasing the 55 mgy plant will cost $250,000 a month and AE Biofuels plans to install its cellulosic ethanol technology so wheat straw, corn stalks... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2010
The flowering plant camelina is the subject of a biofuels research project linking researchers across Canada to Germany.
Canadian gene discovery company Genome Atlantic has now launched a project after receiving $2.8 million (€1.98 million) from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency – Atlantic Innovation Fund, a significant part of its $6.1 million budget.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2010
In the US newly-founded biofuels company Encore has received approval to construct a biodiesel facility at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma.
The facility will cost an estimated $30 million (€21.2 million) and include a glycerine refining operation on 12 acres of ground.
Encore will acquire Petro Source Terminal, which leases 4.6 acres for petroleum storage, and... [Read More]
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