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India Emami Biotech is planning to extend its biodiesel sales in Calcutta with the introduction of mobile biodiesel dispensing units. The company has applied for approval from various authorities, and initially plans to launch two to three units with the number rising depending on the feedback. The move is seen as an attempt by the company, one of the major bio-diesel makers in the country, to…
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The Brazilian government will deliberate over plans to increase the local biodiesel blending level from 3% to 4% in July this year. As a world leader in the production of soyabean oil, the implications of these new plans will result in sharply reducing its export. If the new mandate is implemented the export of soyabean oil from Brazil may be ruled out during the second half of 2009. Brazil…
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Ecopellets, an Ireland-based supplier of wood pellet fuel, is investing more than €110 million in the development of a biomass complex and wind farm in Wales, UK. Ecopellets intends to apply for planning permission for a wood-biomass electricity plant and a four turbine commercial wind farm. The biomass plant and wind farm will be designed to generate 40 MW of electricity, which is enough…
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Construction on a €30 million biogas plant in Croatia, Europe’s largest, began on 14 May. The plant will be located at Ovcara farm outside the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar. The project has been initiated by Vukovar-based Bionergija company, established by a local Vupik agribusiness and several Croatian and foreign entrepreneurs. The future plant, which should be built by the end of…
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The German and Polish governments have agreed an alliance for cooperation on the development of bioenergy feedstocks, after a meeting between the Polish Minister for Agriculture Marek Sawicki and German Agricultural Minister Ilse Aigner. The move establishes Bio-GEPOIT, a task force group that will be coordinated by the Polish Research Institute of Construction, Mechanics and Electricity, and…
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US Biofuels and Go Green Home Stores have come together to plan the construction of an algae biodiesel plant in Rosemont, California. New American company, Go Green Home Stores has partnered with US Biofuels to, start up algae production in mid fall in order to produce 500,000 gallons of biodiesel gas. The two companies plan to produce algae to make oil that can be refined into petrol that is…
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President Barrack Obama issued a presidential directive to the US Secretary of Agriculture to form an interagency biofuels group to aggressively accelerate the investment in and production of biofuels. Directive aims to make the biofuels industry cleaner and encourage output of ethanol made from non-food crops. The Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be headed by the secretaries of the…
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AgStar Financial Services’ lending group has announced that Carbon Green BioEnergy has entered into an agreement to purchase the Woodbury, Michigan, US, ethanol plant. The AgStar lending group recently bought the 40mgy plant following the bankruptcy of its former owners VeraSun Energy. The purchase represents the first direct ownership of ethanol production for Chicago-based Carbon Green…
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Plantation Energy, Australia’s largest manufacturer and exporter of Densified Biomass Fuel (DBF) pellets, has announced the signing of a three year €39 million supply agreement with Belgium-based Electrabel NV. The agreement between Plantation Energy and Electrabel, a subsidiary of Europe’s largest power company GdF-Suez, is the first of its kind in Australia that will see Plantation…
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Süd-Chemie, a leading manufacturer of catalysts and adsorbents, and a leading global company in the sector of gases and engineering, the Linde Group, have launched the production of climate-friendly biofuels based on lignocellulosic biomass in Munich. The process developed by Süd-Chemie and Linde allows biofuels, such as ethanol, to be extracted from plant matter containing cellulose, such as…
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Canadian Pacific Railway and Global Partners are proposing a $14.8 million (€10.8 million) ethanol storage and distribution facility along the Hudson River. The facility would be based at Global's distribution terminal on the Hudson River just north of the Port of Albany, and adjacent to CP's Kenwood intermodal yards. The companies are seeking $8.8 million (€6.47 million) in…
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Indonesia's palm-based biodiesel firms await a fair price formula and government subsidies to survive as they feel the squeeze of surging palm oil prices. The fledgling industry is expected to play a key role in absorbing growing palm output in world's top producer, but as feedstock prices become more expensive than fossil oils, it is difficult for the industry to expand without…
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US President Barack Obama has proven his support for the biomass and biofuel industries by providing nearly $800 million (€588 million) in funding and forming a market development programme. The new funding will be allocated under the directive of the US Department Of Energy biomass programme across four main areas which include $480 million (€353 million) to the solicitation for integrated…
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