Nov 5, 2009
BP to grow green in Brazil
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Nov 5, 2009
Spain-based ethanol company Abengoa Bioenergy intends to bring three new ethanol plants online by Q1 next year.
The addition will boost its global production capacity to about 2.6 billion litres.
The company is building ethanol
plants in Illinois and Indiana, US, each with a capacity of 380 million litres a year, and one in Rotterdam with a capacity of 480 million.... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Figures for the first half of 2009 show an improvement in Germany’s bioethanol market.
The industry suffered a stagnant production spell in 2008, but now Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) figures for the first half of 2009 show that the German bioethanol industry is building up with demand rising almost four-fold compared to 2008.
New legislation... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Rwanda’s government is teaming-up with the US and UK on a biodiesel project.
The $35 million (€23.5 million) project between the Rwandan Government and US firm Eco-Fuel Global and the UK’s Eco-Fuel Positive will use the non-edible shrub jatropha as feedstock.
The two firms will lease 10,000 hectares of land near Akagera National Park in the Eastern Province to... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Peterborough Renewable Energy (PREL) has received approval from the Department of Energy to build the first Energy Park in the UK, which will eventually generate enough green electricity to power 60,000 homes.
The Energy Park will be built in Peterborough and achieve 4,000 MW of biomass power needed to meet the renewable requirement for 2020 for the UK.
The UK needs... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
The Hungarian Development Bank’s ELMIB plans to build a HUF 9 billion (€32.6 million) wood industry waste-fuelled power plant in Salgótarján.
The plant will generate 200,000 GJ of heat, or enough for 60% of the city's district heating demand, and 12.5MW of electricity, enough for all 20,000 of the city's homes. The project is due to be online in Q4 2012.... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Petroleum company Indian Oil is pondering pond matter as a biofuel.
The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with PetroAlgae to license the latter’s proprietary technology for producing and harvesting algae.
The Florida-based green fuel company has developed bioreactors and harvesting methods for converting algae grown in open-pond freshwater farms into... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Spain’s agricultural potential could prove more energetic than before.
The nation has the resources for agro-industrial biogas production of 8 billion m3 a year, a survey carried out by the Probiogas Project finds.
The biogas could be produced using the 83.5 million tonnes of agricultural by-products generated in Spain.
Spain produces 49 million tonnes a year of... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
The American Midwest is known for big things. Now a project to create the largest biomass-fuelled plant in the region has been granted approval.
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has unanimously approved the regional utility giant Xcel Energy’s plans to spend $58.1 million (€39 million) to upgrade its Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland, installing biomass gasification... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Following a series of intensive tests this year, one airline company is to become the first to power an aeroplane carrying passengers.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will transport a limited number of passengers on a Boeing 747 on 23 November powered by a mixture of camelina-based oil and kerosene jet oil.
Camelina biofuel has been proven to reduce emissions by as much as... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Azerbaijan is tapping into new alternative energy sources.
The country’s chairman of the parliamentary commission on energy, ecology and natural resources Valekh Alaskarov says Azerbaijan has the ability to use various types of alternative energy sources with a focus on biogas.
‘It will enable providing remote regions of the country with alternative energy expeditiously... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
US-food and agriculture giant Cargill has expanded its grain handling portfolio by purchasing assets of the former Altra Nebraska ethanol facility in
Carleton, Nebraska.
The plant became a victim of the crashing financial market when half way through construction in November 2007 the tools had to be put down.
‘This facility is a valuable asset to the entire region,... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Another foreign company is climbing the Brazilian ethanol ladder to create the second-largest sugar and ethanol group in the world.
France-based Louis Dreyfus' Brazilian affiliate Louis Dreyfus (LD) Commodities Bioenergia has bought the Brazilian sugar and ethanol group Santelisa Vale.
The combined company, LDC-SEV, will have 13 ethanol plants and 40 million tonnes... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Construction on one of the UK’s largest biomass to power generation projects is getting closer following environmental approval.
UK-based MGT Power plans to build a 295 megawatt (MW) wood-fuelled power station at Teesport, which received Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consent from the Marine and Fisheries Agency (MFA).
This formal consent together with its associated... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Following the opening of its factory in October this year, Brazilian company Grupo Ypioca is set to produce ethanol from sugarcane.
The Jaguaruana factory has installed capacity to produce 50 million litres of ethanol a year, or 90 million litres of the sugarcane derivative cachaca, making it the world's largest manufacturing facility of cachaca.
‘There is no... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
A debate in the UK parliament’s House of Commons has called for an amendment to current UK biofuels legislation to encourage the use of used cooking oil as a feedstock.
Biodiesel manufactured from used cooking oil is one of the most sustainable renewable fuels available, using a waste product to produce energy and reduce lifecycle carbon emissions by up to 90%.
However,... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Ireland-based Greenfield Project Management has entered into an agreement to sell its ethanol output to LUKoil’s trading and supply company Litasco.
Greenfield’s first bioenergy complex in Belarus will initially produce 150,000 metric tonnes of ethanol a year, rising to 450,000 tonnes as phases 2 and 3 are completed. Litasco intends to blend Greenfield’s ethanol... [Read More]
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