Dec 29, 2010
Kentucky to establish switchgrass scheme
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Dec 29, 2010
With a goal to slash CO2 emissions by 80% by the year 2050, Super E10 will be available to German drivers on 1 January 2011.
Super E10 is a biofuel with a higher ethanol content and is more environmentally friendly than E5, which is currently blended with conventional transport fuel.
According to the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), an estimated... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2010
Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. is to partner with Sime Darby Plantation Sdn., a unit of Malaysia’s Sime Darby Bhd, for a bioethanol plant in the state of Selangor, Malaysia.
Together Mitsui and Sime Darby will build and operate the demonstration facility, which will manufacture 1.25 million tonnes a day of bioethanol from empty oil palm fruit branches.
Speaking... [Read More]
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Dec 23, 2010
Noble Group, a Hong Kong-headquartered agricultural, industrial and energy products company, has acquired two sugarcane/ethanol mills in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Both the mills, Catanduva and Potirendaba, are fully operational, situated 50km apart from each other and located just over 100km from Noble’s UNP facility. Catanduva has a nominal sugarcane crushing... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2010
Novasep Process, the bioprocess division of Novasep, a supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life sciences industry, and Danisco, a Denmark-headquartered company dedicated to food and feed ingredients, enzymes and biobased solutions, are to scale-up a new extraction process for the production of natural betaine.
The plant will use vanasse, a byproduct of bioethanol... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2010
On 20 December 2010 Denmark-based bioinnovation company Novozymes A/S signed a definitive agreement to acquire EMD/Merck Crop BioScience Inc. from Merck KGaA for $275 million (€209.4 million).
The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approvals. The transaction is expected to close between February and May 2011. The total sum is to be paid to Merck KGaA, subject... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2010
21 December 2010 saw the US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia fully deny the petition by the National Petrochemical Refiners Association and the American Petroleum Institute challenging the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2).
According to petitioners, the RFS2 final regulation violated the statutory requirements setting separate biomass based diesel... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2010
The emergence of specialty pipelines that deliver renewable and alternative energy substances from the point of production to points of blending, storage or end use will be a catalyst for growth in the development of current and future alternative fuel projects, according to Specialty Pipelines for Renewable and Alternative Energy Substances by market research publisher... [Read More]
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Dec 20, 2010
Caldic Chemie, a producer and storage and handling terminal for methanol and bioethanol, has completed the second phase of its tank park expansion in the Port of Rotterdam.
The entire tank park now has a total capacity of 172,500m3. The nine new tanks will all be used for the storage and handling of methanol and bioethanol. All the tanks which were built in the first... [Read More]
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Dec 20, 2010
US president Barack Obama signed new tax legislation on 17 December extending incentives for ethanol and biodiesel.
The president signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in the afternoon, following a late night approval from the US House on 16 December.
The Senate approved the legislation on 15 December.
For ethanol,... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2010
Abengoa Bioenergy Netherlands is involved in a deal to pipe waste carbon dioxide from its bioethanol plant in Rotterdam to greenhouses in the Zuidplaspolder within an area of around 550 hectares.
The European Commission (EC) authorised the move, under EU state aid rules, for a €5 million investment aid for the pipeline infrastructure.
The waste CO2 will be used to... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2010
Argentina's installed capacity of 1.8 million tonnes of biodiesel a year is set to rise to 2.5 million tonnes a year in 2011.
The road to 2011 has seen a ramp-up in production with Argentina's biodiesel output totalling 1.5 million tonnes in the first ten months of 2010, up 56.8% on the year.
The country exported 76.7% of the output. Its biodiesel exports... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2010
Following a $27 million (€20.2 million) boost from the US Ex-Im Bank Mexican biofuels company Recursos Renovables Alternativos (RRA) plans to begin construction of its first plant to produce biodiesel from algae oil in February.
The financing is used for equipment at the first plant, which will most likely be built in Campeche state, but also could be located near Merida... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2010
In Washington, US, the DoE is to award $30 million (€22.4 million) in a new round of funding for advanced biofuels.
The $30 million will be awarded to small-scale projects focusing on process integration that support the development of drop-in biofuels.
The key focus will be on those projects looking to produce biofuels and bioproducts from biomass. The new funding... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2010
The US Senate has approved the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010. The legislation retroactively extends the biodiesel tax incentive through 2011.
‘The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is pleased by the Senate’s vote to retroactively extend the biodiesel tax incentive,’ said Manning Feraci, NBB VP of federal affairs. ‘This... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2010
In a bid to meet growing demand and renewable fuels targets put in place by the government, Canada-based biofuel firm Energy Innovation Corp. is planning to build a biodiesel production facility in Toronto.
When the plant comes online in 2011 it will be the first of its kind in the region, producing 10 million litres a year of biodiesel. According to Energy Innovation,... [Read More]
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Dec 15, 2010
Key German biodiesel producer EOP Biodiesel has declared bankruptcy following ongoing issues with its banks.
Production at the company’s Pritzwalk-based biodiesel plant ceased in October after a gear unit at its oil mill was damaged.
However it is thought that production could commence once again early next year after repairs have taken place.... [Read More]
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