Apr 28, 2009
South Korea to spend on seaweed forests for biomass
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Apr 28, 2009
British Columbia-based Lignol Energy, a technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations, was awarded €2.6 million to produce cellulosic ethanol and other biochemical products from under-used forest resources.
Lignol will use the funding to support production runs at its industrial-scale... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Automotive fuels supplier FCL Petroleum has signed an agreement with Petrochem Carless releasing FCL biodiesel to the UK market.
The advanced fuels will be pre-blended biodiesel made from fully sustainable sources.
Blending will take place at the Petrochem Carless refinery at Harwich where blends from B5 (5% sustainable fuel) to B50 (50% sustainable fuel) will be produced.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
BP has called for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to end US import duties on Brazil's sugarcane-based ethanol.
The letter has highlighted BP’s belief that ‘sugarcane-based ethanol will be the lowest-carbon biofuel available in the first years of the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard’.
By supporting the end of import taxes on Brazil's ethanol, the letter... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Australian biofuels producer Mission NewEnergy has raised €2.7 million from international investors.
In conjunction with the recently announced €12.8 million debt financing, Mission has sufficient funds to complete its second biodiesel facility.
This capital raise also provides Mission with further operational flexibility.
Mission will issue 24,137,931 units raising... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
France-based oil and gas company Total has invested in US renewable hydrocarbons producer Gevo.
Gevo is commercialising technology to produce renewable jet fuel and renewable, fungible hydrocarbons such as petrol blendstocks, and renewable diesel blendstocks.
Gevo’s commercialisation approach includes retrofitting existing ethanol facilities to produce hydrocarbon... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2009
The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has welcomed the measures in the 2009 Budget that encourage investment in low carbon jobs and anaerobic digestion, with the chancellor Alistair Darling announcing additional funding of €11 million (€12.2 million) of anaerobic digestion and waste infrastructure.
The Secretary of State for Environment... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2009
An ethanol tank explosion at Bartow Ethanol Florida has led to the plant being closed until further investigation.
The explosion was in a 50,000-gallon tank that contained about 1,000 gallons of ethanol, says David Wyant, a spokesman for the Bartow Police Department.
The fire following the explosion forced the evacuation of employees at Bartow Ethanol and at three... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2009
New York State-based Buffalo Biodiesel has completed the expansion of its processing facilities, increasing its capacity from 1 to 5 million gallons of biodiesel annually.
By doing so the subsidiary of alternative energy company HydroGenetics has increased its production capacity by 500%.
Such a move indicates that HydroGenetics anticipates the already solid demand... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2009
Spain's biodiesel plants are running at just nine percent of capacity, according to producers.
The producers hope recent duties imposed by the European Union on US imports will help revive production.
‘Nonetheless, imports and subsidiaries from countries like Argentina, Malaysia and Indonesia, could also become as damaging as those from the US,’ a report by... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2009
Researchers from Fermentec, Piracicaba (Brazil), have cut the volume of vinasse in half while producing ethanol at its pilot plant.
Vinasse is a by-product of sugar-based ethanol production.
The achievement was obtained due to the increase the ethanol concentration in fermentation. Currently the distillery in Brazil working with alcohol content between 8% and 10%, resulting... [Read More]
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Apr 24, 2009
The Californian Air Resources Board is expected today to approve the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, in its boldest attempt to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
The standard aims to discouraging oil use by boosting alternatives such as ethanol, biodiesel and natural gas. Starting in 2011, the standard would steadily lower the allowable 'carbon intensity' of fuels, the... [Read More]
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Apr 24, 2009
Canadian company Dynamotive Energy Systems have begun scalable production of renewable petrol and diesel from biomass. Its two-stage process will use a pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass to produce a bio-crude.
Dynamotive said it can deliver renewable fuels from biomass at a cost of less than €1.5 per gallon of 'ethanol-equivalent fuel' at a volume of up... [Read More]
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Apr 24, 2009
The second generation cellulosic ethanol pioneer KL Energy will spread its wings to Brazil after announcing an exclusive deal with add blue Ltda.
The move will see KL Energy and add blue optimizing KL Energy's proprietary cellulosic ethanol technology for the use of sugarcane bagasse and straw feedstock. They plan to build a cellulosic ethanol plant using KL's... [Read More]
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Apr 24, 2009
Japanese sake and liquor maker Oenon Holdings will start making ethanol at the nation’s largest biofuel plant this year using rice imported by the government.
The Tokyo-based company plans to use 12,000 metric tonnes of foreign rice from government stockpiles in order to produce 5,000 kilolitres (kl) by December. Oenon are to double output next year and plan to reach... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2009
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed, proposing a joint venture to build a 15-megawatt co-generation power plant and pellet mill, between Biomass Secure Power Inc. and Naik Development.
The MOU establishes that Biomass Secure Power will be in charge of the technical expertise for the development and building of the plant, whilst Naik Development will provide... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2009
China-based Anhui Wenergy is planning two 30MW biomass-powered micro-grid electricity generation systems in Anhui Province, China, to power homes.
A-Power Energy Generation Systems has signed contracts with the subsidiaries of Anhui Wenergy to build two micro-grid electricity generation systems in Anhui Province, China.
The systems will use biomass as the primary fuel.... [Read More]
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