Jan 14, 2009
Flying bio-car ventures to Timbuktu
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Jan 14, 2009
Canada-based biofuels and biochemicals technology Enerkem has announced that its first commercial-scale plant located in Westbury, Quebec, is entering start-up phase and will soon begin production of the company's clean conditioned synthesis gas.
The company’s Westbury plant will process treated wood from used electricity poles. At full capacity it will produce... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2009
The US’ second largest ethanol producer VeraSun Energy has suspended three distilleries, due to descending demand and high production costs.
The company has discontinued output at its 100 million gallon a year plants in Bloomingburg, Ohio, Albion, Nebraska, and Linden, Indiana.
Corn rose 58% from January to July last year before falling to 13% from year to year levels... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2009
Following a successful start-up in Q4 2008, Poet Research Center in Scotland, South Dakota, US, is now producing cellulosic ethanol at a pilot scale.
The Scotland plant is producing ethanol at a rate of 20,000 gallons a year using corn cobs as feedstock.
The $8 million (€6 million) endeavour is a precursor to the $200 million Project Liberty, a commercial-scale cellulosic... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2009
US Laidlaw Energy Group, through its affiliate Laidlaw Berlin BioPower, has completed the acquisition of the former Fraser Paper pulp mill site in Berlin, New Hampshire.
Laidlaw has been working on the site for the last two years to develop a 66 megawatt biomass-to-energy project. The company has also been working to line-up the requisite financing for the project.
‘The... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2009
US-headquartered Magellan Midstream Partners has added ethanol blending capabilities at two Texas-based terminals, including a third truck rack lane at its terminal in Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth terminal now has 18,000 barrels of ethanol storage. In addition, the facility can receive ethanol via truck through an automated off-loading system that is open 24 hours a day.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
Portugal-based biodiesel producer Gleinol is set to install a unit to produce biodiesel in Castelo Branco using oil-producing plants from Angola.
Gleinol has set up partnerships in Africa and in Brazil to obtain raw materials for the project, José Luís Brito, Gleinol director, comments.
Gleinol started out with a production area of 700 hectares in Angola, which recently... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
The Philippines-based San Carlos BioEnergy will start commercial operations of its P2.5-billion (€38.9 million) integrated ethanol distillery and co-generation power plant by mid-January.
The project responds to the country’s 5% ethanol mandate to commence in February.
San Carlos BioEnergy started testing and commissioning of the plant in December.
The plant, located... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
US state Pennsylvania has signed a letter of agreement with 10 other eastern states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels and other sources by developing a regional low carbon fuel standard.
Vehicles using low carbon transport fuels include cars fuelled with biodiesel and ethanol, especially cellulosic ethanol made from non-food plant materials;... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
PetroAlgae, a US-based developer of systems to produce biofuel from algae, announced that it has closed on a $10 million (€7.4 million) capital raise through the sale of approximately 3.2 million of newly-issued shares of common stock to two existing investors.
The company said that the proceeds from the stock sale will be used to help finance the commercial launch... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
The Rees Labor Government in Australia is set to approve a AUD$400 million (€208.7 million) expansion of an ethanol plant owned by the Manildra Group, the largest manufacturer of ethanol in Australia.
The plan for expanding ethanol fuel production at the Shoalhaven Starches Plant is due to be approved this week by Planning Minister Kristina Keneally.
The approval... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
The Philippines Department of Energy (DoE) will accredit five biofuels manufacturing facilities in 2009.
The DoE says the new plants will ensure adequate local supply biofuels and meet the mandated higher biofuels blend.
‘Alternative fuels are currently in various stages of development and uses as it will become more crucial to the country’s energy mix,’ the DoE... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
Iowa State University has received a $2.37 million (€1.74 million) grant from the Iowa Power Fund to replace natural gas usage in ethanol plants with biomass gasification technology.
The project will examine the production of ethanol from syngas.
It will also study more efficient burners to use the syngas production from biomass gasification for thermal energy or... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama has elaborated his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan with a target to further expand the US’ renewable energy sector.
‘To put people back to work today and reduce our dependence on foreign oil tomorrow, we will double renewable energy production and renovate public buildings to make them more energy efficient,’ Obama said on Saturday... [Read More]
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Jan 2, 2009
US-based Liberty Green Renewables Indiana plans to build a 28 megawatt biomass-to-electricity plant on 110 acres northwest of Milltown, Indiana.
The Crawford County plant will cost $80-90 million (€57-64.5 million).
Funding for the project is expected to come through equity investments, bank financing, local tax abatement and federal New Markets Tax Credits, which... [Read More]
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Jan 2, 2009
Nigeria-based Global Biofuels is establishing the first of a number of refineries for the production of bioethanol from sweet sorghum.
Ethanol will be blended with petrol to make E10.
Global Biofuels is planning to establish the project in nine Nigerian states. It expects to start production in December 2009, with an initial production capacity of 27 million litres a... [Read More]
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Dec 31, 2008
Texas-based GreenHunter Biofuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, has received approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell GreenHunter Biodiesel to the on-road market in the US.
This approval by the EPA improves GreenHunter Energy’s biodiesel distribution capabilities in the US, and further enhances the company’s strategy of diversifying... [Read More]
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