Oct 16, 2009
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Oct 16, 2009
A council in the UK has been left red-faced after its ‘locally sourced’ biofuel buses were found to run on an imported feedstock.
Reading Council said the buses were run on sugar beet bioethanol sourced from Norfolk, northeast England, when in fact it has been running on wood pulp imported from Sweden.
The discovery only came to light when Reading Transport Board... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
Hawaiian Electric has signed a contract with a subsidiary of the Renewable Energy Group (REG) of Iowa to supply clean-burning biodiesel for testing at its new plant.
REG, which was chosen from among eight bidders, is expected to supply 400,000 gallons of biodiesel for HECO to conduct operational testing and collect emissions data at its 110 MW plant at Campbell Industrial... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
NRG Energy has begun a pilot-scale biomass growing project at its Big Cajun II electrical generation site in Louisiana, US, that could result in commercial-scale biomass use by the company.
A 20-acre plot was seeded with switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum at the recommendation of Ceres a developer and marketer of high-yield energy grasses. The choices were made after... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2009
US-based renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings (NGBF) is branching out to Puerto Rico.
The company has signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with Ace Biofuels of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Under this LOI, Ace Biofuels would license product formulations, manufacturing technology and know-how from NGBF with the intent of constructing a biofuel manufacturing facility... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2009
The waste produced from pigs could be the fuel of the future.
German biogas plant manufacturer WELtec BioPower has begun building another 500-kW biogas plant in the UK designed to run in part on pig manure.
The plant in Staffordshire, England, will be commissioned in January 2010.
The investor and farmer will first operate the plant with pig manure and 2,000 tonnes... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2009
Canadian biofuel production is expected to rise 76% in two years, as government subsidies for production plants and renewable-fuel requirements take effect.
Total biofuel production will reach 2.5 billion litres (660 million gallons) annually by 2011, including 2 billion litres of ethanol and 500 million litres of biodiesel, according to Gordon Quaiattini, president of... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Norwegian energy company StatoilHydro has invested $3 million (€2 million) in the Chesapeake Algae Project (ChAP) in Virginia, US.
The College of William and Mary and its Virginia Institute of Marine Science have formed the collaborative research initiative to investigate a promising new technology to produce biofuel from the algae growing naturally in rivers and the... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Brazilian ethanol and sugar groups ETH Bioenergia and Brenco are deliberating a merger which could create one of Brazil's largest bioethanol producers.
The projects combined could yield 3 billion litres of ethanol a year by 2013/14. It would also crush 37 million tonnes of sugarcane annually.
‘Both companies have modern, competitive assets which are headed for... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is gearing up to build one of the US’s largest biomass power plants.
The cost of the project, including the acquisition, totals around $500 million (€338.6 million).
As part of the project, Southern Power acquired Nacogdoches Power, from American Renewables.
The company will have a 20-year purchase-power agreement... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Wales, UK-based Anglesey Aluminium Metals has submitted an application for approval of a 299-MW biomass power plant to be located near the company’s aluminium smelter and possibly power it.
If approved, the plant would consume about 2.4 million tons of woody biomass, such as wood chips, pellets or agricultural residues, a year.
Anglesey Aluminium hopes to commence... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
In the UK, Scotland comes a step closer to greener heat and power following the signing of a multi-million-pound deal.
A contract established between Tullis Russell Papermakers and RWE NPower means a 50-megawatt biomass power plant will supply energy for Tullis Russell’s mill in Markinch, Fife, Scotland.
The plant will replace an existing coal-fired power plant, owned... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2009
Asia has long fuelled the biofuels boom with its oil-rich feedstocks. It is now using the feedstock waste for generation of green power.
Asiatic Group (Holdings) will take a 30% stake in joint venture to develop a RM150 million (€29.9 million) biomass project in Perak to convert empty oil palm fruit bunches into electric power.
The group, through subsidiary,
Colben... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2009
US-based biofuel manufacturer Qteros has announced plans to build a $3.2 million (€2.2 million) cellulosic ethanol plant.
The plant will be located next to Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Massachussets, and could potentially create 150 jobs.
The facility, which will demonstrate the company’s patented process for converting plant matter to ethanol, is expected... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2009
Cellulosic ethanol company Coskata will officially unveil its demonstration plant next week in Madison, Pennsylvania, after an 18-month construction period.
The $25 million (€16.9 million) plant will allow the company to scale to 50 million gallons a year and 100 million gallons a year facilities.
Coskata employs a three-step process technology that is capable of... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2009
Two firms are looking to invest P3 billion (€43.7 million) in two planned facilities that will produce bioethanol in the Philippines.
Artech and Eco Frontier are consulting with the Bureau of Agriculture Research (BAR) for technical support while scouting areas where they could plant sweet sorghum, the preferred feedstock of both companies.
'Eco Frontier and... [Read More]
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Oct 7, 2009
The Ensus and Hull wheat ethanol plants are expected to utilise 19% of the British wheat harvest, 2.3 million tonnes out of a total annual harvest of 14 million tonnes.
The chairman of the National Farmers Union crops board welcomed the plants despite the prospect of wheat imports to meet food needs, saying that the plants represented a price support for the wheat crop.
The... [Read More]
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