Oct 19, 2009
ArborGen and Clemson partner on biofuels
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Oct 19, 2009
A major U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) report released on 16 October says biofuels, like all new technologies, present opportunities and challenges but countries must approach them in a sophisticated manner if they are to benefit the economy, the environment and society as a whole.
Biofuels are mostly produced from food crops including wheat, maize, sugarcane and vegetable... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2009
Iowa-based Bio-NRG plans to build a $35 million (€23.4 million) integrated oilseed crushing and biorefinery facility on 15 acres on the east edge of LaHarpe, Illinois.
The company expects to break ground sometime in 2010.
Construction should take 12 to 14 months, with the plant expected to go online in 2011. It will be a 24/7, year-round operation that will employ... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2009
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has referenced primary standards contributor ASTM International in a recent greenhouse gas rule it approved.
The final Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule was enacted in response to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (H.R. 2764; Public Law 110-161). Under the rule, manufacturers of vehicles and engines and... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
Bulgaria is boosting its biofuels mix. All Bulgarian petrol stations will be obliged to add at least 2% biodiesel in the diesel fuel after 1 March 2010.
All petrol stations will have a two-month period in which they must apply the new rules.
This measure has been included in the amendments of the Law on Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources and Biofuels, which the... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
Several foreign and national investors are scouring parts of Africa for high-yielding next generation feedstocks, but this has sparked one government to reportedly suspend all biofuels investments.
The attention is centered on jatropha, and mounting pressure from farmers and environmental groups have voiced concerns over food shortages leading the government to further... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
Reports reach us from Stockholm, Sweden, that an annual cull of thousands of rabbits is fuelling a heating plant.
The so-called Biofuel Bunnies cause mayhem in the capital’s green spaces, so the 3,000 culled this year are providing green energy to homes instead.
Hunter Tommy Tuvunger says: ‘Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough, a contractor... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
A council in the UK has been left red-faced after its ‘locally sourced’ biofuel buses were found to run on an imported feedstock.
Reading Council said the buses were run on sugar beet bioethanol sourced from Norfolk, northeast England, when in fact it has been running on wood pulp imported from Sweden.
The discovery only came to light when Reading Transport Board... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
Hawaiian Electric has signed a contract with a subsidiary of the Renewable Energy Group (REG) of Iowa to supply clean-burning biodiesel for testing at its new plant.
REG, which was chosen from among eight bidders, is expected to supply 400,000 gallons of biodiesel for HECO to conduct operational testing and collect emissions data at its 110 MW plant at Campbell Industrial... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
NRG Energy has begun a pilot-scale biomass growing project at its Big Cajun II electrical generation site in Louisiana, US, that could result in commercial-scale biomass use by the company.
A 20-acre plot was seeded with switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum at the recommendation of Ceres a developer and marketer of high-yield energy grasses. The choices were made after... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2009
US-based renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings (NGBF) is branching out to Puerto Rico.
The company has signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with Ace Biofuels of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Under this LOI, Ace Biofuels would license product formulations, manufacturing technology and know-how from NGBF with the intent of constructing a biofuel manufacturing facility... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2009
The waste produced from pigs could be the fuel of the future.
German biogas plant manufacturer WELtec BioPower has begun building another 500-kW biogas plant in the UK designed to run in part on pig manure.
The plant in Staffordshire, England, will be commissioned in January 2010.
The investor and farmer will first operate the plant with pig manure and 2,000 tonnes... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2009
Canadian biofuel production is expected to rise 76% in two years, as government subsidies for production plants and renewable-fuel requirements take effect.
Total biofuel production will reach 2.5 billion litres (660 million gallons) annually by 2011, including 2 billion litres of ethanol and 500 million litres of biodiesel, according to Gordon Quaiattini, president of... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Norwegian energy company StatoilHydro has invested $3 million (€2 million) in the Chesapeake Algae Project (ChAP) in Virginia, US.
The College of William and Mary and its Virginia Institute of Marine Science have formed the collaborative research initiative to investigate a promising new technology to produce biofuel from the algae growing naturally in rivers and the... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Brazilian ethanol and sugar groups ETH Bioenergia and Brenco are deliberating a merger which could create one of Brazil's largest bioethanol producers.
The projects combined could yield 3 billion litres of ethanol a year by 2013/14. It would also crush 37 million tonnes of sugarcane annually.
‘Both companies have modern, competitive assets which are headed for... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is gearing up to build one of the US’s largest biomass power plants.
The cost of the project, including the acquisition, totals around $500 million (€338.6 million).
As part of the project, Southern Power acquired Nacogdoches Power, from American Renewables.
The company will have a 20-year purchase-power agreement... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Wales, UK-based Anglesey Aluminium Metals has submitted an application for approval of a 299-MW biomass power plant to be located near the company’s aluminium smelter and possibly power it.
If approved, the plant would consume about 2.4 million tons of woody biomass, such as wood chips, pellets or agricultural residues, a year.
Anglesey Aluminium hopes to commence... [Read More]
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