Apr 29, 2009
Illinois landfill secures ethanol contract
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Apr 28, 2009
One of the world’s largest landfill gas-to-energy projects was formally unveiled in Istanbul, Turkey, on 25 April.
The landfill gas project, owned by Ortadogu Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret, was developed as part of a national initiative to reduce the environmental impacts of solid waste facilities and use the landfills’ gas to generate electricity.
Turkey has been modernising... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Germany's biodiesel industry is currently working at below 60% capacity because of higher taxes on green fuels and reduced blending levels with fossil fuels.
Germany was likely to consume about 2.5 million tonnes of biodiesel in 2009, down from 2.7 million tonnes in 2008 and 3.3 million tonnes in 2007, said Johannes Daum, political director of German biofuels industry... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Energy consulting firm Peregrine Energy announced its plan to develop a new woody biomass-fuelled cogeneration plant at Sonoco's manufacturing complex in Hartsville South Carolina.
The company will invest €100 million for the project. The construction of the plant is scheduled to begin once the air permit is issued and the company expects the facility to be commercially... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
South Korea will spend €208 million over the next ten years to create new seaweed forests that can help increase the country's ability to produce biomass energy.
The plan calls for 35,000 hectares of seaweed forest to be created in waters in the east and south coasts and near Jeju Island that can produce up to 1.56 billion litres of ethanol per year by 2020.
The... [Read More]
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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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