Nov 8, 2012
Amyris reports third quarter 2012 financial results
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Nov 7, 2012
US-based biofuel and logistics company Eco-Energy has signed a partnership with Copersucar, the largest sugar and ethanol trader in Brazil.
By binding their global supply capacity of 2.6 billion gallons the move creates the largest ethanol trader in the world.
‘With this partnership, we become a truly global company in the biofuel market, expanding our scale of operation... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2012
Vopak has been awarded the first multisite International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for a number of its storage terminals.
The company certified its first terminal in Rotterdam on 13 December 2011. ‘Rotterdam is the biofuels hub of Europe,’ Maurice Houben, Vopak’s sales and marketing manager for global vegoils and biofuels,’... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2012
The Pakistani government is to implement several new plants with the aim of creating a total of 304MW of electricity from city waste.
Many projects are already underway, with an aggregate capacity of 57MW, and the subsequent facilities will create a further 247MW via agricultural, industrial and biogas waste products.
A senior government official stated that agricultural... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2012
Greenergy has announced plans to penetrate the fuel industry in Canada.
From the second quarter of next year, the UK-based supplier of petrol and diesel will begin supplying fossil and biofuels to south western Ontario.
Greenergy's first supply location in Canada will be Vopak's Hamilton terminal. From here it will supply E10 petrol, ethanol and ULSD. A number of terminal... [Read More]
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Nov 2, 2012
Ethanol plant design and management company ICM has had to lay off 25 employees in Colwich, US in response to what it calls slowing growth in the ethanol industry.
The company now employs 275 people, down from the 671 it had back in early 2008.
In a statement e-mailed to various press outlets, ICM CEO Dave Vander Griend stated the company is focused on retrofitting existing... [Read More]
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Nov 2, 2012
Several projects in Japan on the go since 2008 are perfecting the use a technology that could utilise sago to produce ethanol.
President of Bio-Energy Corporation Hideo Noda claims this research on producing bioethanol production from cellulosic materials has been carried out successfully.
‘In our project, a hydro-thermal pre-treatment without adding sulfuric acid... [Read More]
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Nov 1, 2012
A bioenergy plant in Hopewell, Virginia is to be auctioned off by city officials in order to recoup nearly $2 million (€1.5 million) in unpaid taxes.
Hopewell City Council voted to begin a tax sale of the reported $150 million Osage BioEnergy-owned facility which closed in 2011 without producing a drop of ethanol.
City attorney David Fratarcangelo believes the auction... [Read More]
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Nov 1, 2012
Ineos Bio has hailed the first renewable power production at its joint renewable energy project in Florida, US.
The Indian River Bioenergy Centre is currently turning local yard, vegetative and agricultural wastes into advanced biofuels and renewable power. The facility was a joint venture with development company New Plant Energy.
The facility is expected to generate... [Read More]
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Oct 31, 2012
Stagecoach-branded buses have significantly upgraded the blend of biofuels it uses to power its fleet.
Over 500 coaches and buses in East Scotland, plus nearly 400 vehicles in operation for Stagecoach in West Scotland, are now running on B30 biofuel. The buses were previously running on B5 and calculate the switch could cut emissions by up to 22%.
‘Public transport... [Read More]
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Oct 31, 2012
Next generation bio-based chemicals producer Cobalt Technologies is set to work closely with a subsidiary of agribusiness and food company Bunge.
Bunge Global Innovation ‘s investment into Cobalt, along with chemicals business Rhodia Poliamida e Especialidades, means it will operate a pilot plant demonstrating the production of n-butanol using sugarcane bagasse as... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2012
Industrial enzymes producer Novozymes believes it has a new product that could improve the profitability and efficiency of biofuel production.
The product, named Avantec, is said to allow corn ethanol producers the ability to get a further 2.5% ethanol out of the feedstock.
‘Corn is the single biggest input cost for an ethanol producer and, as prices have gone... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2012
Canada-based waste to biofuels company Enerkem is hiring new employees as construction on its new plant gathers pace.
The facility, situated in Edmonton, Alberta, is among the first small-scale advanced biofuels plants being built in North America. It will utilise the City of Edmonton’s landfill-based waste to create renewable fuels and other chemicals.
‘Construction... [Read More]
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Oct 26, 2012
Fuel giant British Petroleum (BP) has backed out of plans to construct a $300 million (€232 million) ethanol plant which would have been based in Florida, US.
BP is confident in the effectiveness of its technology to convert energy crops into advanced cellulosic ethanol, but that it could earn better returns pursuing other avenues.
The news has caused many to call... [Read More]
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Oct 26, 2012
Bioinnovation company Novozymes and agricultural business Syngenta have signed an exclusive agreement to market and distribute a crop protecting product.
The product is Novozymes’ Taegro, a natural solution microbial-based biofungicide used to combat fungal diseases that attack various crops.
‘Using our technology, Syngenta will provide farmers all over... [Read More]
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Oct 26, 2012
The US state of Nebraska has had its first sales of E15 blended fuel this October.
A service station in Lexington had blender pumps installed on 16 October and confirmed sales by the end of that weekend. The station owner, Neal Hoff, utilised a blender pump grant from the Nebraska Corn Board to get started.
Hoff was quoted as saying that E15 ‘was the fuel of... [Read More]
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Oct 25, 2012
Israeli scientists involved in the research of biofuels and solar energy are set to benefit from a multi-million pound grant.
Part of a $15 million (€11.5 million) gift given to the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will be dispersed over the next three years and used to fund the research projects.
The money has come from... [Read More]
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