Oct 23, 2009
NASA to update delegates on green aeronautics at Biofuels International Canada expo & conference
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Oct 23, 2009
While chemical businesses may be waning in Teesside, north east England, UK, a green light is shining bright.
Ensus has built a £300 million (€326 million) wheat-based bioethanol plant, whose by-products will be used to produce animal feed and carbon dioxide for the soft drinks industry. The plant could be ready by the end of Q4
One million tonnes of wheat will be... [Read More]
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Oct 22, 2009
Biodiesel producer China Clean Energy has completed construction of its Jiangyin plant.
The commissioning process is now underway and a test-production run is expected in November 2009.
The new plant has been designed to produce up to 100,000 tons of biodiesel per year or a combination of up to 40,000 tons of biodiesel and 30,000 tons of specialty chemicals.
‘Once... [Read More]
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Oct 22, 2009
Florida, US-based clean energy company Clenergen is making India greener.
Clenergen’s Chennai, India-based subsidiary has closed terms to acquire a 1.5 MW biomass power plant in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu.
One of India’s national demonstration projects, the plant is expected to be operational before the end of the year.
The plant was stopped in 2007 because of operational... [Read More]
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Oct 21, 2009
Renewable Energy Group Seneca has purchased Nova Biofuels Seneca’s biodiesel plant in Illinois, US.
The plant has a capacity of 60 million gallons a year. REG also bought Nova Biosource Technologies.
Earlier this year, REG purchased three large biodiesel plants: Western Iowa Energy, (30 mgy); Central Iowa Energy (30 mgy); and Blackhawk Biofuels 45 (mgy).... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2009
South Carolina, US-based Clemson University and ArborGen have partnered to develop purpose-grown woody biomass as feedstock for the biofuels industry.
The cooperative will support South Carolina’s ethanol industry based on existing cellulose conversion technology, foster multi-agency collaboration and engage students in research and internships.
ArborGen and Clemson... [Read More]
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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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