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Grocery provider Ocado is an online supermarket that delivers produce to your home in vans powered only by biodiesel.
However the company’s green promise, designed to attract eco-aware customers, has been broken and Ocado’s co-founder Jason Gissing has been forced to confess after one of the firm’s trucks was spotted filling up with conventional diesel at a BP Connect fuel station in…
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Built in a busy location in lake Wales, Florida, US, the Circle K fuelling station of 1349 Hwy 60 East opened its first E85 pump on 20 May this year.
Established within the fuels industry, Mid-State Energy owns the property and lets it to Circle K. As well as being Circle K’s first filling station to provide E85 fuel, it is also the first E85 station for Mid-State Energy.
After adopting…
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Established within the paper and packaging industry, International Paper and clean technology company Fiberight have struck a deal that will see the production of biofuel from unusable fibre.
From the beginning of May this year Fiberight has been converting residual material, which is produced at International Paper’s Cedar River paperboard mill in Iowa, US, into cellulosic ethanol. It is…
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Headquartered in Finland, refining and marketing company Neste Oil’s €550 million renewable diesel plant in Singapore is almost ready to begin production.
Producing 800,000 tonnes of renewable diesel a year, NExBTL is now 10% away from completion and is due to come online in Q4 of 2010. The plant will begin by utilising palm oil only but has the ability to use other feedstocks, including…
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With a view of forming a joint venture to create a biofuels business, Amelot Oil and state-owned energy provider Barbados National Oil Company Ltd. (BNOCL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Amelot Oil is owned by renewable fuels manufacturer Amelot Holdings and is already producing biodiesel from used cooking oil at its Amelot Oil Barbados plant, and has been since 2008.
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While a 2% biodiesel mandate might seem like a positive plan for today’s environment, Canada’s representative for commercial vehicle owners Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is urging the government in Ottawa, Canada, to abandon the law.
When the mandate comes into force in 2011, all diesel must be blended with 2% biodiesel.
However according to the president of CTA David Bradley: ‘There…
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Finnish company Chempolis, involved in the development and delivery of non-wood and non-food based process technologies and production solutions, has launched a pilot plant in Oulu, northern Finland.
The $24.4 million (€19.7 million) biorefinery will produce a daily supply of 68 tonnes of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural waste and waste paper.
The facility will also be used to test raw…
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Data from the US Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, and the Census Bureau indicate significantly increased US ethanol exports in 2010.
In March 2010 the US exported more than 45 million gallons of ethanol. For Q1 2010 US exports exceeded 83 million gallons. By country, Canada and the Netherlands lead the way. US ethanol is also finding its way into Brazil and OPEC nations in…
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North Carolina’s Eastern Petroleum will open its new cassava-fed bioethanol plant in 2012, after negotiating with technology providers.
‘We are currently negotiating for the supplies. We are finalising talks with the technology providers from India, Korea and China. We expect to have a final investment decision this year and the plant to open in two-and-half years,’ Eastern Petroleum…
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Canada-based cellulosic ethanol producer Lignol Energy’s subsidiary Lignol Innovations has successfully completed integrated production campaigns and met operability targets for the production of cellulosic ethanol and lignin with its industrial-scale biorefinery pilot plant in Burnaby, British Columbia.
The company made enhancements to its biorefinery pilot plant in late 2009 and over the…
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Non-state owned energy firm China Integrated Energy’s (CIE) biodiesel plant, which is currently being built in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi province, China, has just obtained the production equipment needed for its new refinery.
Under construction near to the company’s existing 100,000-tonne/year biodiesel production facility, the new plant will utilise crop straw including wheat straw, corn…
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From 13 May until 6 July 2010 producers of cellulosic biofuels can now apply for funding under the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels by submitting applications to the USDA Rural Development.
The aim of the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels is to provide fiscal support to biofuels producers based in rural areas in order to ensure continued development and consumption of advanced…
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Natural disasters including floods and the formation of deserts are a close reality for New York, US, and Shanghai, China, if drastic actions are not taken to radically slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the commerce secretary Gary Locke.
While present at the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai Locke said: ‘That is the very real and very scary downside of our energy and…
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Biodiesel company Alternative Fuels Americas (AFA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Netspace International Holdings, will acquire Sao Paulo, Brazil-based biodiesel producer Integrated Biodiesel Industries (IBI) after signing a letter of intent (LOI).
Focused on the mergence of biodiesel firms, AFA’s CEO Craig Frank remarks: ‘This LOI marks the beginning of the implementation of our carefully…
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Biofuels technology provider Bio Solutions Manufacturing is to change its name to Todays Alternative Energy Corporation.
The reason behind the name change lies in the belief that investors and business partners are effectively informed of the company’s business focus.
The CEO of Bio Solutions Manufacturing David Bennett commented: ‘Our alternative business centres on using the…
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