Mar 31, 2010
Tereos signs Deinove ethanol deal
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Mar 30, 2010
On the island on Java, Indonesia, London-based investment firm Aston Lloyd will be leasing 10,000 hectares of marginal land that will be used to grow a hybrid of jatropha.
With its ability to live without excess amounts of water, the drought-resistant jatropha plant thrives in Indonesia’s climate and the government is aiming to have 1.5 million hectares of jatropha... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2010
D1 Oils’ chairman Brian Myerson has resigned after his plans to adjust the focus of the business were rejected by fellow board members.
Brian Myerson has been pressing D1’s senior executives to change from planting energy crops to producing biofuels. However, his plans have been rejected and Myerson, whose company owns 27% of D1’s shares, has stood down from the... [Read More]
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Mar 29, 2010
After three years in the making Rwanda’s first biodiesel bus has set out on a trip from the country’s capital Kigali to the town of Akanyuru.
It is hoped that the Rwanda Biodiesel Express, which is powered only by oil plants, animals fats and used cooking oil, will play a key part in reducing the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Jean Baptiste Nduwayezu, head... [Read More]
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Mar 29, 2010
In Botswana, Africa, plans are underway to construct a biofuels plant that will produce 50 million-litres of biodiesel annually.
The plant, due to be online in 2012, will eventually utilise jatropha from plantations to manufacture the biodiesel but will start off using meat tallow and used cooking oil.
The National Petroleum Fund will finance the project with advanced... [Read More]
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Mar 26, 2010
After a reshuffle of its finances and a review on its strategic plan in 2009 one of the biggest biodiesel manufacturers in Brazil, Brasil Ecodiesel, has reached operating profit since its incorporation in 2006.
The company’s gross margin reached 17%, compared with the negative figures of 2008 and the production of biodiesel in 2009 was 152,000m3.
As part of its new... [Read More]
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Mar 26, 2010
In Malaysia the national government will introduce a B5 biodiesel mandate by June 2011.
Malaysia is the world’s second-largest manufacturer of palm oil, the prime feedstock for the B5 mandate. However palm oil is not received well by environmentalists who claimed the plantations destroy the environment and wildlife habitats.
Malaysia initially approved the B5 law... [Read More]
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Mar 26, 2010
In Angola, Africa, the production of biofuels will now be regulated with a new law approved by the national parliament that requires foreign biofuels producers to sell a share of their fuel to state oil company Sonangol to meet local needs.
It is hoped that the law will contribute towards helping Angola become less reliant on fossil fuels as ethanol produced by the project... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2010
Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International magazine, and here Jaroslav Pesek, head of the quality department and strategic reserves at Czech state-run pipeline and storage terminal operator CEPRO, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
CEPRO... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2010
A Californian company has developed a large-scale jatropha farming initiative in Central America.
SG Biofuels also entered into the first project with the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) to test and enhance sustainability standards for jatropha cultivation.
The SG Biofuels/RSB pilot will evaluate the practicality and usability of RSB sustainability standards... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2010
The Netherlands-based energy major Shell has started up its biopetrol demonstration facility in Madison, Wisconsin, US.
The plant is the outcome of a joint biopetrol research and development effort between Shell and Wisconsin’s Virent Energy Systems.
The plant is billed as the world’s first demonstration plant converting plant sugars into petrol and petrol blend... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2010
US-based Terra Energy Resources is a step closer to acquiring an oil terminal in Pennsylvania.
The company plans to turn the 24,000 gallon facility into a biodiesel production facility for use in home heating fuel while taking advantage of incentives offered by the state of Pennsylvania for production of alternative fuels.
This acquisition will include land, buildings,... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2010
UK chancellor Alistair Darling will announce a £1 billion (€1.1 billion) fund to inject investment in green transport and energy projects.
The UK government is committed to reducing UK carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and so changes in infrastructure and power generation will be needed over the coming decades.
The Labour Government hopes to upgrade the transport system... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
In North Carolina, US, the city of Charlotte’s first biomass power plant is due to be complete by 31 December.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved a $12 million (€8.87 million) 3.2MW proposed facility by Orbit Energy Filings with the commission that Orbit intends to sell the energy produced, a total of 23 gigawatt-hours annually, to Duke Energy for... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
A new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Suffolk, UK, will convert business food waste into bioenergy to heat homes and power cars.
The facility which will be the first of its kind to generate renewable energy for the gas grid, will be sited on land owned by Southwold-based independent brewery Adnams, which will use the facility to recycle its brewery waste. Food waste... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January has meant a desperate lack of sanitation facilities but now Brazilian group Viva Rio is turning human excrement into biogas for use as fuel.
The Kay Nou camp in Port-au-Prince is one of many to have flourished in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince since the earthquake. The camps are absorbing many of the estimated... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
Vancouver-based Fortress Paper will buy a disused pulp mill in Quebec and spend $153 million (€111 million) to reopen it as a biomass plant.
A 25MW power plant fed by waste from its operations and from an extensive local network of chip and other biomass suppliers is expected to begin supplying electricity by late 2012. The company further plans to begin production... [Read More]
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