Dec 29, 2009
Korea plans biodiesel boost
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Dec 23, 2009
Sugarcane ethanol powerhouse Brazil might just have a whole new market to sweeten up. The South American nation is likely to take advantage of China’s agreement to lower the tariff on imports of ethanol to 5% from the previous 30%.
The Finance Ministry announced the new import tax for alcohol and other spirits denatured of any strength will be effective from 1 January... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2009
The deal was done less than a month ago and now the plant Zenergy International acquired from Greenlight Biofuels is due to undergo expansion.
Capacity will double from 5 to 10 million gallons a year with Zenergy investing in an additional biofuel reactor with the potential to double profit.
The Littlefield, Texas, plant is situated on 40 acres of productive land and... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2009
Pigs might not fly, but chickens could.
Illinois, US-based Elevance Renewable Sciences plans to build a $15 million (€10.5 million) that will use plant oils and poultry fat to create jet fuel.
The project, funded in part by $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, could get the final go-ahead by late January.
Construction of the plant would create up to 50... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2009
Canada’s forest industry has been hit hard by the recession. Now increasing efforts could resurrect the industry as it branches out to renewable energy.
Dimethyl ether, or DME is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be produced from biomass, natural gas or coal.
DME has the potential to replace diesel fuel because it produces 95% fewer greenhouse gases,... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2009
In the UK, Scottish Water Horizons, the commercial arm of Scottish Water, has received an anaerobic digestion tank that will turn food waste into energy at its Deerdykes Organics Recycling facility in Cumbernauld.
From Q2 next year, the £7 million (€7.83 million) food recycling unit will turn 30,000 tonnes of solid and liquid food waste into around 8,000 megawatts... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2009
The Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has approved a project proposal put forward by Pond Biofuels that includes funding for its biomass from algae demonstration plant.
The proposal was submitted under the Asia-Pacific Partnership (APP) on Clean Development and Climate programme.
Along with the biomass plant in Ontario, Canada, the project also includes a feasibility... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2009
Envirotek’s Extreme Bio-Diesel facility in California, US, is now in full production after completing the first phase of its refinery expansion.
The plant is currently producing 4,000 gallons of biodiesel a day and plans to increase to 10,000 gallons a day by the end of the first quarter of 2010.
The plant’s expansion was expected to be completed by January 2010... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2009
An ethanol project in Peru has received $25 million (€17.3 million) from the Inter-American Development Bank.
Maple Energy’s $245 million ethanol plant, sugar plantation and electricity power generation facility will have a capacity of 35 million gallons a year.
The company expects to achieve a 53% increase in sugarcane yield, compared to global averages on its 34,500... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2009
Located in south east Europe, Bulgaria is strengthening its biodiesel rules.
The country will introduce compulsory blending of diesel and petrol with biofuels from 2010 to boost the usage of the green fuels and meet European Union
environmental targets.
The new rules, which come into force in March next year, require blending of diesel with a 2% content of biodiesel.... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2009
Kenya is building up its ethanol base with a little help from India.
Mumias Sugar is constructing a Sh3.5 billion (€32.2 million) ethanol distillery, with Indian engineering company Avant Garde undertaking the design, construction and procurement of the Mumias Ethanol Distillery Project at the sugar miller’s complex in Mumias.
Mumias will also spend another Sh23.4... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2009
It is the perfect Christmas present. While some people ask for ties, socks or a fine whisky –
on the alcohol theme – one company has bought three fuel ethanol plants.
Following its eager snap-up of seven VeraSun Energy plants earlier this year, a subsidiary of refining and fuel marketing company Valero Energy has signed agreements to buy the three facilities in the... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2009
In the US, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) has called on California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) to reject the Air Resources Board’s (ARB) Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) rule currently under review.
The RFA has highlighted numerous instances where ARB violated established procedures by failing to properly address stakeholder comments on the LCFS proposal.
‘ARB’s... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2009
Following a series of successful tests by KLM, Japan Airways and Virgin, airlines are queuing up to fill their planes with renewable fuels components.
Now one company will provide them with quarter of a billion gallons of renewable jet fuel a year.
California-based synthetic fuels producer Rentech has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 13 passenger and... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2009
Feedstock-rich Indonesia is poised to boost production of biodiesel.
The government plans to develop regional centres for processing palm oil into biodiesel and other products.
The government is seeking investment to produce oleochemicals, oils and biodiesel from palm oil.
As the nation awaits a record production of 21.5 million tons of palm oil next year three areas... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2009
Sugarcane central Brazil is now seeing a shake-up in feedstocks and the type of biofuels it produces.
BioVentures Brasil will receive $1 million from the InterAmerican Development Bank for a pilot project on about seven hectares in Bahia, northeastern Brazil, where it plans to develop a plantation on 20,000 hectares of mostly abandoned cattle-grazing land.
The pilot... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2009
Valero Energy and Mission NewEnergy have signed a five-year deal to supply 200,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year, which is potentially worth around $3.5 billion (€2.4 billion).
Mission has confirmed that it will supply Valero with jatropha-based biodiesel and palm oil based biodiesel.
Mission NewEnergy said: ‘The increasing demand for biodiesel driven by the Renewable... [Read More]
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