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In Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company has submitted a request for an annual supply of 3 to 7 million gallons of biodiesel. The biodiesel will power the 100MW Campbell Estate Industrial Park generating station – one of the world's largest commercial-scale power plants to be 100% fuelled by biodiesel. 250,000 gallons of the biofuel supply will go towards powering the Honolulu…
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Ohio, US-based environmental services provider Environmental Quality Management (EQM) and Beacon Energy Holdings, a producer of biodiesel, located in Cleburne, Texas, have signed a definitive merger agreement. Upon the closure of the agreement, EQM will merge with Beacon and become its wholly owned subsidiary. Beacon will be named EQM Technologies & Energy. Upon completion of EQM's due…
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UK-based alternative energy company Goes on Green has acquired a biodiesel plant in the Netherlands. Located in Sluiskil, the 250,000 tonne-a-year facility was acquired by BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions. Also included in the transaction is the plant's deep water storage loading/unloading berth, 250,000m3 of storage capacity and fully integrated logistics. 24 new jobs will be created at the plant.
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Between March and September 2011 Thailand's government will launch an E95 bus fleet trial to test the viability of replacing the current diesel- and LNG-fuelled buses with a 95% ethanol blend. 1.3 million litres a day of ethanol are consumed by the nation today, but the government is hoping to ramp this up to 9 million litres a day by 2022. The buses used in the trial will come from heavy truck,…
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Italy is one of the key producers of biodiesel in the EU. However the nation's output capacity has been hurt due to a rise in the importation of cheaper biodiesel. The biofuel is most commonly made from palm oil and rapeseed oil in Italy, however it is thought that the imported fuel can cost less than these feedstocks. In the first nine months of 2010, 410,000 tonnes of biodiesel were made in…
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A couple in Wichita, Kansas, in the US, have been arrested after they were caught stealing waste grease from a local eatery. After leaving Joplin, it is thought that the pair visited small towns such as Iola and Cherryvale throughout the night, helping themselves to used cooking oil, before arriving at Burger King in the early hours of the morning. They were spotted at 5.30am on 25 January…
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In the US petroleum refiner and marketer Valero Energy Corporation has signed a letter of intent that could see it invest up to $50 million (€37 million) in innovative biofuels company, Lebanon, New Hampshire-based Mascoma Corporation. Together with Mascoma's operating subsidiary Frontier Renewable Resources, jointly owned with natural resource management company J.M. Longyear, Valero's…
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On 3 February 2011 energy company Jatoil achieved production of 200 tonnes of crude jatropha oil, all of which will be shipped and used as feedstock for biojet aviation fuel for use by commercial airlines. The 200-tonne production milestone comes six months after Jatoil made its inaugural 10-tonne biofuel sale from its Indonesia project to the airline industry. 'Currently, only limited supplies…
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In Nicaragua, fresh produce exporter Xagro and its multi-faceted business partner Jam are to begin testing the commercial production of cassava chips to be used for the production of ethanol in China. Testing will include assessing a number of different cassava varieties for high starch content, which is needed in the ethanol process, in addition to the production of several thousand tonnes of…
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It has been out of service since 2009 and now US, Maryland-based biodiesel firm Chesapeake Green Fuels (CGF) has retained Equity Partners to find a buyer for its biodiesel production plant in Clayton. The facility was designed by Desmet and built back in 2006 by Fagen. Located 15 miles north of Dover, Delaware, and 60 miles south of Philadelphia, the plant is ideally situated to distribute and…
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2010 was a busy year for US-based biofuels company BlueFire Renewables. The company first rebranded itself in order to clearly communicate its capabilities within the entire renewable energy sector. Today BlueFire can produce a number of different biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel and biojet fuel, in addition to other drop-in fuels. November saw the newly branded BlueFire Renewables’…
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A lawsuit filed by Capital Ventures International (CVI) against Verenium, a US-based company dedicated to the development and commercialisation of high-performance industrial enzyme solutions, has been dismissed. Verenium’s motion for summary judgement to dismiss CVI’s complaint was granted by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. CVI’s complaint related…
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In a recent study the German Research Centre for Biomass (DBFZ) has found significant greenhouse gas (GHG) savings in biodiesel derived from rapeseed. After arriving at a 38% default value for biodiesel produced from rapeseed, the study went on to conclude that the balance of fertiliser and diesel fuel used was the main contributor affecting the overall result of GHG emission levels. The findings…
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