Nov 9, 2009
Biomass projects head for the highlands
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Nov 9, 2009
It must be the luck of the Irish – the UK Government has implemented a new environmental regulation under which fuel companies must sell 4% of sales in biofuels in Ireland by July 2010.
The Government approved the biofuels obligation a year later than originally envisaged. There will be a requirement that the biofuels used by oil companies must produce 35% less greenhouse... [Read More]
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Nov 9, 2009
Funds for a Chilean biomass power plant have been approved.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) gave the go-ahead on a loan of $6.5 million (€4.3 million) to build a 15.6-megawatt biomass power plant in the South American country.
The plant will use agricultural, forestry and industrial waste as fuel, emitting zero carbon dioxide, meeting the strict international... [Read More]
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Nov 9, 2009
The Netherlands’ energy major Shell has sold its stake in second generation biofuels producer Choren.
Choren is building Germany's first cellulosic ethanol plant using non-food raw materials as feedstock with a commercial operational target of 2010.
Shell sold its minority shareholding to other shareholders, which comprise German vehicles groups Volkswagen and... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2009
The Philippines is enhancing its biofuel infrastructure following approval by the Department of Energy (DoE) for seven biofuel projects with combined investments of over P7 billion (€99 million).
The projects are a mixture of ethanol and biodiesel plants. The largest is a P3.4 billion ethanol facility to be undertaken by Cavite Biofuels Producers producing 34.4 million... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2009
One of the world’s poorest countries, Ethiopia, is developing biofuel crops on over 500,000 hectares of arid land.
‘Castor oil plants, jatropha and palm oil plants are being developed to reduce land-locked Ethiopia's dependency on imported oil,’ Ephrem Hassen, coordinator of biofuels development in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, comments.
Ethiopia's... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2009
Tank Storage/Biofuels Asia expo & conference at the Suntec Centre, Singapore, is now just days away!
As an added incentive visitors to the combined exhibition on 19-20th November will now receive access to the complementary networking cocktail reception on 19th November at 17.00
This gives you an opportunity to network with both the speakers and the conference delegates.
Companies... [Read More]
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Nov 6, 2009
State-owned China National Petroleum Corp(CNPC) will work with Honeywell’s subsidiary UOP to develop biofuels for road transport and aviation.
Under an agreement the two companies will collaborate to produce biodiesel and green jet fuel using feedstocks available in China.
CNPC will also look at establishing a demonstration-scale facility for producing biodiesel using... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Tri-City Energy looks to sell its 5 million gallon a year biodiesel plant in Keokuk, Iowa, US, to BFSG International of Zurich, Switzerland.
The acquisition will be finalised through Tomorrow’s Choice in Energy, or TC Energy, a wholly- owned subsidiary of BFSG. The sale includes Keokuk Glycerin in which Tri-City Energy has a 51% stake.
Upon finalisation the plant... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Finland-based fuel company St1 will build more than 20 ethanol facilities by 2020 in a programme totalling €400 million.
St1 opened its fifth ethanol plant in October in Lahti, on track for its 300 million litre a year target.
The Lahti facility uses waste from a nearby brewery as feedstock.... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Energy leading US state California is perhaps not every ethanol producer’s choice.
BlueFire Ethanol planned to build its second cellulosic ethanol facility in the state, but development and licensing concerns, coupled with the challenging business climate in California caused company officials to petition the Department of Energy for a site change to Mississippi.
The... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
The year is 2013, and the place: Brazil. UK energy major BP will be instrumental in the deployment of large-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities.
Its first port of call, however, will be north of the border. BP’s first second generation ethanol plant will be constructed in the US next year, with the technology being transferred to its plants in Brazil after operations... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Spain-based ethanol company Abengoa Bioenergy intends to bring three new ethanol plants online by Q1 next year.
The addition will boost its global production capacity to about 2.6 billion litres.
The company is building ethanol
plants in Illinois and Indiana, US, each with a capacity of 380 million litres a year, and one in Rotterdam with a capacity of 480 million.... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Figures for the first half of 2009 show an improvement in Germany’s bioethanol market.
The industry suffered a stagnant production spell in 2008, but now Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) figures for the first half of 2009 show that the German bioethanol industry is building up with demand rising almost four-fold compared to 2008.
New legislation... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Rwanda’s government is teaming-up with the US and UK on a biodiesel project.
The $35 million (€23.5 million) project between the Rwandan Government and US firm Eco-Fuel Global and the UK’s Eco-Fuel Positive will use the non-edible shrub jatropha as feedstock.
The two firms will lease 10,000 hectares of land near Akagera National Park in the Eastern Province to... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Peterborough Renewable Energy (PREL) has received approval from the Department of Energy to build the first Energy Park in the UK, which will eventually generate enough green electricity to power 60,000 homes.
The Energy Park will be built in Peterborough and achieve 4,000 MW of biomass power needed to meet the renewable requirement for 2020 for the UK.
The UK needs... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
The Hungarian Development Bank’s ELMIB plans to build a HUF 9 billion (€32.6 million) wood industry waste-fuelled power plant in Salgótarján.
The plant will generate 200,000 GJ of heat, or enough for 60% of the city's district heating demand, and 12.5MW of electricity, enough for all 20,000 of the city's homes. The project is due to be online in Q4 2012.... [Read More]
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