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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 can play a key role in…
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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 6MW of renewable power…
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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 will take place within…
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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 had been introduced and…
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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 plants and introducing…
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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 improvements are to be…
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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 to the two main…
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Canadian-based Woodland Biofuels says its new demonstration plant is up and could be producing ethanol by the end of this year. The new facility will use wood waste as feedstock and is based at the Western University Research Park’s Bioindustrial Innovation Centre in Sarnia. It will create 10 operational jobs while it employed 25 people during construction. ‘It’s all assembled…
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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,’ explains. ‘Many…
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The Filipino Department of Energy (DoE) is to collaborate on a new bioethanol research project with Xavier University. The DoE will commit to fund the university’s study into looking at potential bioethanol production via varieties of cassava taken from the Northern Mindanao region. The exact amount of the funding has not been disclosed. Cassava is one of the most drought-tolerant food…
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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 waste projects were…
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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 the Leona and Harry…
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Renewable chemicals and fuels company Amyris has recorded declining financial results for the third quarter ending September 2012. Aggregate revenues for the quarter were posted at $19.1 million (€15 million) versus $36.3 million in the same quarter 2011. The company puts the decline in revenue down to the planned transition out of the ethanol and ethanol-blended gasoline business, which is…
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