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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of California to stay its injunction it issued at the end of last year to stop CARB’s introduction of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Judge Lawrence O'Neill, who implemented the injunction, says he did so because he believes the LCFS ‘violates the commerce clause of the…
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Consulting company Lee Enterprises has developed a RIN verification programme called RIN 9000 which will help biodiesel blenders, producers and others involved to make sure he RINs being sold or bought are legitimate. Lee’s owner, Wayne Lee, as well as Jess Hewitt from Gulf Hydrocarbon and biodiesel engineering group Agri-Process Innovations, helped to create the programme. Recently there…
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has formed a $25 million (€19 million) partnership with Fiberight, money which will be put towards building a new biofuels plant in Blairstown, Iowa. The facility will convert waste into biofuels, producing six million gallons a year when the plant comes online in the first half of next year. Fiberight is spending $20 million into the plant, combined…
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The Green Investment Bank (GIB), a world first initiative to encourage private investment into green energy projects, has received 32 bids from cities in the UK willing to host the bank. The city that wins the bid would need to be able to recruit and retain the staff, work closely with other parties involved in order to further develop investment projects, and ensure that the bank is cost…
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DSM and POET have joined forces to convert  a facility into its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US, which will be based in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels joint venture will produce 20 million gallons of ethanol in the first year, growing to about 25 million gallons the year following. The plant is due to come online in the second half of 2013 and will…
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Algae producer Aquaviridis has joined forces with OriginOil to develop a new technology that extracts oil from the algae and will develop this multi-phase production at its Mexicali site in Mexico. Through the North American Free Trade Agreement, a region in the country has been put aside for such developments and OriginOil will help by harvesting and developing its algae cultivation…
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Following major reviews, reversals and amendments of government policies over the past 18 months, biofuels in Australia should now be able to look to the future with more certainty and support As with most other countries promoting renewable fuels, targeted policies and support from federal and state governments are critical components for determining the transport fuel mix in the Australian…
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Chemoprojekt, a Czech Republic-based company specialising in design, engineering and procurement, has formed a joint venture with Nationwide Asset Management. The 50/50 joint venture has been named FAME Usti nad Labem and will be used for biodiesel production. The new joint venture will be in charge of the operation of a biodiesel plant that will produce 100,000 tonnes of FAME each year.…
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Middle Eastern airline Etihad Airways has flown its first biofuels flight from Seattle to Dubai, using a Boeing 777-300ER. The airline is the first to operate such as flight around the Gulf and the fuel was supplied by SkyNRG, which is an Amsterdam-based sustainable jet fuel supplier. From the factory to the plane, the fuel was delivered with the help of SkyNRG’s partners EPIC Aviation and…
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Construction has begun on the Hairy Hill biorefinery in Canada which is to turn farmers’ grain into ethanol whilst at the same time producing power for the grid. The construction marks the second phase of the development, which already features a biogas plant that produces 1MW for the power grid from manure and other waste. That facility is expected to cost about $50 million (€38…
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Australian company Algae.Tec has signed a 50/50 joint venture (JV) with Chinese company Shandong Kerui.  Working together, the companies will build a 250-module algae biofuels facility in China, in which both companies will pay half to cover costs. The module system at the facility will be enclosed and the way the algae will be cultivated is meant to give it a high yield per acre, whilst at…
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Bioenergy crop company SG Biofuels has closed a $17 million (€13 million) round of fundraising to go towards further developments of its hybrid jatropha seeds which can be used for biodiesel production. The series B of financing was led by Thomas, McNerney & Partners; and Finistere Ventures and current investors Flint Hills Resources and Life Technologies were also involved. Using the…
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BlackGold Biofuels and SLM Facility Solutions Nationwide have joined forces in the US to turn grease trap waste, derived from restaurants, into biofuels. The process will cost the hospitality companies no extra money to deliver the grease trap waste to the facilities, and then BlackGold Biofuels will extract and recycle the grease, turning it into biodiesel. 'Grease trap waste is…
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