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In the US newly-founded biofuels company Encore has received approval to construct a biodiesel facility at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma. The facility will cost an estimated $30 million (€21.2 million) and include a glycerine refining operation on 12 acres of ground. Encore will acquire Petro Source Terminal, which leases 4.6 acres for petroleum storage, and increase it for an initial…
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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts a reversal in fortunes for the US ethanol industry this year. From 2008-2009 a decline in ethanol-blended petrol consumption struck a blow to the industry, but now the economy is set to bounce back, and the rising requirements of the federal Renewable Fuel Standards will further assist this. ‘Ethanol production continues to grow to meet the…
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All delegates at the upcoming Biofuels International expo & conference in Prague on 5-6 May will benefit from a tour of a nearby biodiesel facility on 4th May. Preol is a leading producer in the Czech Republic, which has just completed constructing a state-of-the-art biodiesel plant in the industrial region of Lovosice. The plant, designed by Desmet Ballestra, has the capacity to produce…
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Sweden has long tapped into the bioethanol stream and now a new partnership is looking at liquid biogas as a transportation fuel. Vehicle manufacturer Volvo’s subsidiary Terracastus Technologies and waste management firm Nordvastra Skanes Renhallningsbolag plan to jointly construct a liquid biogas plant in southern Sweden. In December, the two companies signed a letter of intent to begin a…
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In Sweden, thanks to a team effort between Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, and Renova, the country’s first energy efficient garbage truck has been delivered. It is the first of eight garbage trucks around Sweden to run on biomethane and biodiesel. CEO of Renova, Sweden’s major recycling company Christian Baarlid said: ‘It is largely thanks to the municipality’s “green…
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In Ione, California, plans are being made to turn a previously coal-powered plant into a generator of green electricity. During a meeting on January 15, the director of Buena Vista Biomass Power (BVBP) Jesus Arredondo said that the refinery could be latest provider of green electricity. The company, having already invested $15 million, is aiming for the plant to reopen by the middle of 2010.…
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In a bid to increase the amount of biofuel produced in Germany, the land used for growing feedstocks, solar parks and wind turbines will be doubled in ten years’ time. Today, 1.77 million of Germany’s 35.7 million hectares are being used for renewable energy. If Germany is to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of the decade, almost 4 million hectares will be…
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In order to transport ethanol from the Midwest to the East Coast of the US, Magellan Midstream Partners and Poet are joining together in a venture to build a 1,800-mile pipeline. The pipeline, which will take four years to build and cost $4 billion (€2.8 billion), will begin at ethanol production facilities in the Midwest and carry the ethanol all the way to New Jersey, depending on a loan…
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One of the US’ largest ethanol producers Abengoa Bioenergy has just taken its second step into the export market by shipping the equivalent of 40 railcars at the beginning of January 2010. ‘Exports offer a huge potential to US producers,’ says Javier Salgado, the company’s CEO. ‘Most producers are focusing on the domestic market, but exports can offer better returns, especially as…
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The Philippines-based Basic Energy will construct the country’s only cassava-fed ethanol plant. Basic Energy’s proposed ethanol plant will be in Zamboanga del Norte a province of the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. The company will use 6,000 hectares of land in Gutalac, which it started developing for cassava in 2008 under unit Basic EcoMarket Farms.…
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Following the success of the 2009 combined Biofuels International / Tank Storage Asia expo & conference in Singapore, this year’s event will be held in the new and exciting location of Kuala Lumpur, on 10 to 11 November. The Biofuels sector in Malaysia along with the rest of Asia has steadily begun to grow but not without threat. With an approximate 92 biodiesel projects approved in…
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Following announcements late last year that it is to inject biogas into the National Grid, UK-based green gas supplier Ecotricity confirms that the first gas customer will be connected next month, and it will be delivering low carbon biogas made from organic material by the end of 2010. In order to be injected into the National Grid, biogas needs to comply with quality standards set out by the…
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In Brazil, Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobas) has signed an agreement with Gas Verde S.A. to supply 200,000 m3 of biogas per day. Replacing natural gas, the biogas will be generated by Gas Verde, from the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro to the Petrobras Duque de Caxis plant. It is thought that the project will reduce greenhouse emissions. As well as helping to recover the mangrove close…
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