Feb 9, 2010
Biofuels becomes Bioenergy
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Feb 9, 2010
Czech Republic-based national utility CEZ produced more than 327 GWh of electricity from biomass during 2009 through co-firing.
At four thermal facilities, the Hodonin power plant, the Porici power plant, the Tisova power plant and the Dvur Kralove heating plant, more than 363,000 tonnes of biomass were burned, despite some problems with delivery of biomass at the beginning... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2010
In Ireland, the government is thought to be putting a stop to taxes applied to regularly consumed biofuels by changing the carbon tax legislation.
The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has confirmed that tax on biofuels is being revised.
While pure biofuels are not taxed, mixed fuels containing less than 10% biofuel are. The most common biofuel... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2010
In Brazil, a weak sugarcane harvest has hit the generation of ethanol hard, leading to a decrease in production. As a result, fuel prices have risen, forcing the government to amend the tax on fuel.
According to the government, the CIDE tax will be cut by $0.04 per litre (€0.03) for a total of three months. The three-month tax reduction will result in revenue’s... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2010
After signing the contracts, Jatoil Limited and PT Waterland International are to embark on a joint venture in Indonesia.
In Central Java, the two companies will attain around 2,000 hectares of land, half of which already contains jatropha trees. It is these trees that are expected to produce the jatropha oil for 2010, a year ahead of previous expectations, while the... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2010
After signing a contract with Biffa, a UK-based integrated waste management business, Sainsbury’s supermarket looks set to turn all of its food waste into biogas by 2012.
Biffa will use anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to create biogas from the discarded foodstuff, before it is injected into the national grid.
AD is a green and cheap solution of disposing of waste,... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2010
In south Wisconsin, US, Valero Renewable fuels has purchased a biofuels plant for $72 million (€52.6 million).
The ethanol plant in Jefferson had been in business for six years and had the capacity to produce 110mgy of ethanol, before Renew Energy declared itself bankrupt. 70 employees were threatened with redundancy if a buyer was not found.
Valero was the winning... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2010
In the US, San Antonio-based terminal operator NuStar Energy has begun to receive and offload ethanol unit trains in Stockton and Selby, two of its locations in northern California.
Both terminals are capable of receiving single manifest rail cars up to full unit trains.
The Stockton terminal is a 1 million-barrel-facility and Selby is a 3-million-barrel-facility.... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
H.E. Mr. Jan Dusík, Minister of the Environment for the Czech Republic, will be making the keynote presentation at the upcoming Biofuels International expo & conference in Prague on 5-6 May 2010.
Other confirmed speakers include PKN Orlen, ?ESKÁ RAFINÉRSKÁ, Petronas, Cepra A.S, The European Bioethanol Fuel Association, The European Biogas Association, HSBC, biofuel... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
US president Barack Obama has established three steps to boost the production of biofuels.
Firstly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalised a rule to implement the long-term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress.
Second, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has also proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
A proposed biomass plant in Scott County, Indiana, has created chaos and outcry amongst locals.
The $100 million (€73 million) Liberty Green Renewables plant will burn untreated and unpainted woodchips that will generate electricity to supply to utilities across the region.
Liberty Green also plans to construct another biomass plant in Crawford County, near Milltown,... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2010
RWE npower renewables has teamed up with paper maker Tullis Russell to construct a biomass plant.
RWE develops renewable energy in the UK and the new biomass plant and will be its biggest plant yet.
The facility will use biomass to provide steam and electricity to the company’s power plant. 50MW of energy will be generated, taking the place of the coal-burning plant... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2010
California-based Promethean Biofuels will open its biodiesel plant on 19 February in Temecula.
The Promethean Biofuels refinery will convert used cooking oils into 1.5mgy of biodiesel.
Built next to a recycling facility, the majority of this 17,000-square foot plant has been constructed using reclaimed resources. Ideally situated nearby to a community recycling utility,... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2010
With 40-60% oil contained inside each castor oil seed (or bean), Evogene’s establishment of castor bean fields may prove to be groundbreaking within the biofuels sector.
With a combined total of 3.8 billion litres of biodiesel being produced annually between the US and Brazil, Texas and northeastern Brazil are currently the two target locations for future commercial... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
New Delhi, India-based Mavens Biotech is planning to set up three biomass power plants with a total capacity of 30 MW.
The Rs 700,000,000 (€10.8 million) investment on the proposed power project is likely to be met with internal accruals and debt, M D Kanther, chairman of the company, says.
The company reported net sales of Rs 37.14 crore in the nine month ending... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
UK utility provider British Gas will build five biomethane demonstration projects to inject purified biogas into the UK’s national gas grid for use by consumers.
The projects are due to come online in mid-2010, with the first biomethane project seeing the construction of a plant to purify raw biogas from Thames Water’s Didcot sewage works.
Thames Water and Scotia... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
The UK is proving a popular site for biogas projects – Germany-based MT-Energie has now begun construction on two 1MW biogas plants in southern England.
The plants, one north of Oxford and the other near Bognor Regis, are nearing completion and both should be operational by Q2.
Support such as Feed-in Tariffs, two ROCs offered for anaerobic digestion and the possibilities... [Read More]
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