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In California Envirepel Energy plans to reopen the company’s first renewable energy facility after it temporarily closed in June last year to deal with a shareholder proxy effort.
The company hopes the facility, which generates 2.5MW of power from biomass resources, will be operational again by the middle of April 2010.
The plant, which was built in the centre of a commercial business park,…
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India’s largest energy firms NTPC and Indian Oil Corp (IOC) are considering biodiesel production.
The two companies will undertake research and development on an integrated biodiesel unit for developing new innovative technology.
The biodiesel project is in line with the government-proposed policy on biofuels. The government is considering to replace 10% of petroleum product requirement in…
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A group of UK companies working under the Carbon Trust aims to start producing biofuel from a pilot plant in 2014 eventually producing over 2 million tonnes a year from UK biomass.
Axion Energy, along with catalytic technologies company Catal International, CARE and technology provider Aquafuel Research, will aim to turn the pyrolysis process into a cheap and green way of producing biofuel on a…
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The Indian government has approved further capital investment by biodiesel refiner Australia-based Mission NewEnergy into its Indian feedstock business.
Mission will also continue with the original approved activity of being engaged in the contract farming of jatropha and utilising the jatropha oil for domestic or export markets.
The managing director of Mission Nathan Mahalingam said:…
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A total of $79.75 million (€58.3 million) will be awarded to the GreenField ethanol plant in Varennes, Quebec, Canada, over a period of seven years.
GreenField will receive the funding from the Canadian government’s ecoENERGY for Biofuels programme. ‘What it allows us to do is maintain the right operating margins to support operations,’ said Jean Roberge, the GM of GreenField Ethanol of…
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After the construction of an ethanol biorefinery began in late 2007 work ceased a year later and Illinois-based Aventine Renewable Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2009 but now things are changing.
The Posey County ethanol plant in Mount Vernon was near completion when the building work was forced to stop due to a rise in the cost of ethanol production. The prices of oil…
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The Growing Power Hairy Hill biogas facility’s plans to expand are being supported by the Canadian Government.
Expansion of the existing demonstration-scale biogas plant represents the first phase in developing a larger integrated biorefinery capable of producing products such as green power, bio-fertiliser and fuel ethanol.
The project includes the construction of new biogas capacity, the…
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A sewage work upgrade project planned by UK utility provider Thames Water will also introduce an anaerobic digestion process, where solid waste is broken down in enclosed tanks in the absence of oxygen.
This process forms biogas which can be used to generate renewable energy, and it is intended to produce enough energy to power the entire site.
Thames Water began the £85 million (€94.7…
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In the US the newly-passed Forest Biomass Supply Agreements Bill (SB 6236) will allow the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to enter into long-term agreements to supply forest biomass from trust lands for energy projects/purposes.
There are approximately 3 million acres of state trust land in Washington.
The bill goes hand-in-hand with HB 2165, which was passed in 2009 to…
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A new project has been launched in France to produce biodiesel and bio-kerosene.
BioTfueL is composed of five French partners and German engineering company Uhde.
With a global reliance on energy and the need to increase our consumption of renewable resources, the BioTfueL scheme will be the first to meet these requirements with a technically innovative solution.
Uhde has set aside €112.7…
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In Sao Paulo, Brazil, Grupo Bertin is to purchase 71% of sugar and ethanol manufacturing company Infinity Bio-Energy for an undisclosed sum.
After having sold its meat department to JBS SA, Bertin transferred into the renewable energies sector.
The agreement between the two companies is part of Infinity’s judicial recovery proceedings and Bertin will be issued shares as part of the…
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With 135 million litres of ethanol being manufactured from six sugar factories in India it looks like the country’s production of biofuels is on the up.
The ethanol is blended with petrol in order to comply with India’s 10% ethanol target by the end of 2011. According to the state’s Biofuel Task Force president Y B Ramakrishna, ‘There is a target of increasing the use of ethanol to 10%…
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According to Bio Base Europe the first crop of genetically modified poplar plants will be converted into ethanol in a Flemish-Dutch pilot installation.
The poplars were planted in May 2009 in an outside field in Ghent, Belgium. The crop has now been harvested and is ready to be converted into ethanol at the Bio Base Europe pilot plant.
Located in Ghent, the plant converts agricultural…
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The state of Iowa, US, has been awarded funding from The Department of Agriculture to help develop biofuels and replace fossil fuels.
US senator Chuck Grassley claimed that the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels would distribute the sum of $1.6 million (€1.2 million) to the state.
Grassley said it was highly encouraging to witness The Department of Agriculture and biofuel companies in…
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Wisconsin, US-based wind farm operator We Energies is looking to build a biomass plant.
The company has filed an application with state regulators to build a $255 million (€185 million) biomass power plant near Wausau.
The project would supply steam to Domtar’s paper mill in Rothschild and create up to 150 jobs.
The 50MW power plant would generate enough power to supply 40,000 typical…
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