Jun 17, 2011
Green Plains acquires grain elevator in Missouri
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Jun 17, 2011
In the US, biodiesel producer Mission NewEnergy has supplied its first batch of biofuel under its most recent contract – a $100 million (€70.6 million) deal to manufacture and deliver its product to a key distributor of refined oil products.
The new contract was signed in May 2011 and, subject to a preliminary three-month probation period, will see Mission manufacturer... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2011
Medford, Massachusetts, US-based Agrivida, a company dedicated to finding novel crop varieties for the production of biofuels, has reportedly raised $2 million (€1.4 million) of a planned $8 million round of equity funding.
The company collaborated with agribusiness firm Syngenta Ventures back in December 2010 to develop new corn and switchgrass strains that can be... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2011
In Accra, Ghana, a 'Next-Generation Urban Sanitation Facility' is being developed at Columbia University, US, after receiving a $1.5 million (€1.06 million) grant from Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Upon completion the facility, which has not yet broken ground, will produce biodiesel and methane from faecal sludge.
Kartik Chandran, a professor... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2011
In Brazil, ethanol producers cannot meet the demand from the number of flex-fuel vehicles on Brazilian roads.
The nation has suffered two low sugarcane harvests throughout 2010 and 2011 and this was attributed to excessive rainfall. As a result, the mandatory percentage of ethanol to be blended with fossil petrol was lowered.
The Brazilian government then declared an ethanol... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2011
In move that will hopefully reduce the cost of fuel by 10%, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, will import ethanol from Brazil.
In addition to lower fuel prices, the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) is keen to encourage the use of ethanol in order to reduce the region's reliance on fossil fuels within the transport sector.
With this push towards the use of biofuels... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2011
China's largest producer and supplier of oil and gas China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC, is planning to invest RMB10 billion (€1 billion) in the development of new energy sources in 2020, according to reports.
The news comes after the corporation's vice president Hu Wenrui posted on an forum that CNPC will be looking into the production of ethanol and biodiesel,... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2011
In the Philippines, the country's largest ethanol plant could restart production.
According to Rosemarie Gumera, manager of policy and planning at the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), the San Carlos Bioenergy plant, located in Negros Occidental, looks set to reopen as the price of locally produced sugarcane continues to fall.
San Carlos Bioenergy stopped making ethanol... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2011
Bus operator Arriva has put in an order to acquire more than 100 buses from its supplier Scania.
For use in Copenhagen, Denmark's public transport scheme, all buses will have the ability to run on 100% biodiesel.
Three versions of the OmniLink model buses have been ordered, including the 14.6m-long kind, which will be able to carry 107 passengers.
All of the buses feature... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2011
In the US a bill, which would see the majority of all automobiles manufactured in 2017 and after have the ability to run on biofuels, has been strongly opposed by car manufacturers.
The Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011 has come about in an effort by the Senate to try and keep ethanol tax subsidies in place and raise the tariff.
However, trade group The Alliance of Automobile... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2011
In the south of Brazil, 99.63 million tonnes of sugarcane was crushed between April 2011 (the start of the 2011/2012 harvest) and 1 June 2011, according to Unica, the sugarcane industry association.
This figure is down on the 134.17 million tonnes crushed the previous year.
Of the 99.63 million tonnes crushed, 57.12% was used in the manufacturing of ethanol, while the... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2011
Elevance Renewable Sciences, a Bolingbrook, Illinois, US-based company dedicated to the production of specialty chemicals from natural oils, has acquired the Delta BioFuels facility in Adams County.
Elevance will invest over $225 million (€156.6 million) in converting the facility to a biorefinery and derivatives operation in a multi-phase project. In addition to... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2011
Since E5 became commercially available in Vietnam almost 12 months ago, the numbers of sales are below expected volumes. Now, experts are calling for more support to be given to the nation's biofuel manufacturers and traders.
In 2010 PV Oil was selling the 5% ethanol blend from 30 petrol stations and at the end of the year shifted 4.2 million litres of the fuel. However,... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2011
The Air Transport Association (ATA), the US airline trade organisation, says it is pleased with the ASTM International Committee on Petroleum Products and Lubricants for giving the go ahead for a new jet fuel specification to push for aviation biofuels.
‘The committee endorsement of this specification is significant for all consumers of jet fuel, bringing the airline... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2011
KiOR, a next-generation renewable fuels company, and Catchlight Energy have signed a feedstock supply agreement which will see Catchlight Energy provide forestry-based feedstocks to KiOR for commercial renewable fuel production.
Catchlight Energy, a company that is a 50/50 joint venture between Chevron and Weyerhaeuser, will provide the feedstocks to the KiOR fuel facility... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2011
The biodiesel market worldwide made more than $18 billion (€12.3 billion) last year and it is predicted this figure will climb to $70 billion in the coming years.
A new market report titled Biodiesel World Market Outlook 2011 shows that new technologies, as well as economical and ecological advances in the biodiesel sectors will help to further develop the biodiesel... [Read More]
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Jun 8, 2011
The Brazilian government says it will implement new regulations on its ethanol market next month, which will require producers and distributors to implement supply contracts lasting at least one year, in order to avoid shortages and prevent price spikes.
The new regulations are expected to help the government to plan the supply and demand for sugarcane-based fuel and therefore... [Read More]
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