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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 back in 2006 but it was…
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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 can be used as…
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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 is heavily involved with…
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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 applied to a 1,400 acre…
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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 components as an alternative…
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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, and…
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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 to use cleaner fuels…
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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 the next 20…
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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 will be sourced from…
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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 1 million people made…
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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 of dissolving grade…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Jan Stambasky (JS), executive board member of the European Biogas Association, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
Founded just a year ago the association is growing fast, echoing the development…
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Vietnam state president Nguyen Minh Triet attended a ceremony for the construction of an ethanol plant in Minh Hung commune, Bu Dang district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc.
The $81 million (€60 million) ethanol plant, which has the capacity to produce 100 million litres of ethanol annually, will utilise 240,000 tonnes of dried cassava.
The company hopes that around 15,000 households…
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Based in Adamsville, Ohio, US firm Farmers’ Ethanol is planning an investment of $135 million (€100 million) to build a bioethanol refinery in Smederevo, Serbia.
Farmers’ Ethanol spokesperson Maja Fragner explains that the plant would create 200 factory jobs, while another 5,000 will be employed to grow the raw materials needed for the biofuel refinery.
‘Farmers’ Ethanol…
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Overall production of ethanol will increase by 16.2% this year resulting in 85.9 billion litres being manufactured.
This rise in ethanol production will see more than one million barrels of biofuels a day replace 370 million barrels of oil this year, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) forecasts.
With over 45 billion litres of ethanol expected to be manufactured in the US alone this…
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