Aug 12, 2009
FirstEnergy to burn biomass
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Aug 11, 2009
UK entrepreneur Richard Branson has raised £150 million (€174 million) through private equity to invest in renewable energy.
A significant proportion of this money will be invested in biofuels, notably isobutanol, which Branson intends to use as aircraft fuel.
The Virgin Green Fund is one of the few private equity ventures to raise its target amount this year. ... [Read More]
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Aug 11, 2009
Nigeria will start producing biodiesel commercially at some point next year, say scientists.
Nigeria has been experimenting with biodiesel for several years. The Sweden-based telecoms operator Ericsson funded the first pilot biodiesel production in Nigeria under its corporate responsibility programme: several operators have been powering their mobile base stations... [Read More]
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Aug 11, 2009
US Biofuels manufacturers are lobbying Congress for a share of the free carbon permits needed to emit carbon dioxide under the Obama administration’s proposed carbon-trading scheme.
The bill passed by the House of Representatives last month would give away 85% of the permits to pollute to industries regarded as essential in the first years of a cap. The remaining 15%... [Read More]
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Aug 11, 2009
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to restrict the official designation of ‘renewable fuel’ to biofuel from producers which can provide documentary evidence that their feedstock is sustainably produced.
This has drawn complaints from biofuels producers which argue they will face a bureaucratic nightmare.
The proposal is contained in the consultation... [Read More]
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Aug 11, 2009
Sweden-headquartered Chemrec’s pulp mill-integrated BioDME (dimethyl ether) biorefinery demonstration plant project will break ground in September in Piteå, Sweden.
Production is expected by mid-2010. The project will demonstrate the production of an advanced diesel fuel, DME, from forest biomass over the black liquor route and will also demonstrate the use of this... [Read More]
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Aug 10, 2009
A dispute delaying construction work on the UK’s largest bioethanol plant has been resolved.
On Tuesday 4 August workers on the plant at Teesside were sent home on paid leave over a commercial dispute involving project managers Simon Carves and its sub-contractors.
Simon Carves reportedly cut strings with the project leaving Ensus to manage the build.
But an Ensus... [Read More]
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Aug 10, 2009
In Pakistan, the Ministry of Environment has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) to implement a commercially viable Rs2.8 million (€24,000) biogas programme.
In the programme’s first phase, set to run until 2012, 30,000 digesters will be installed in selected rural areas. The programme aims to use the market and... [Read More]
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Aug 10, 2009
A new HUF 14 billion (€52 million) bioelectricity plant in Szakoly, eastern Hungary, is set to be operating commercially by September 2009.
The Hungarian Energy minister announced that plant workers are currently conducting a trial run, which, assuming there are no unforeseen difficulties, should be completed by the end of August.
The plant will burn 170,000–180,000... [Read More]
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Aug 10, 2009
MGT Power is planning a second 300MW bioelectricity plant in the British Port of Tyne to accompany the current project under construction in nearby Teesport.
MGT details plans for the Tyne Renewable Energy Plant (TREP) to be located on industrial land 10 kms east of Newcastle city centre on the north bank of the River Tyne. The proposed plant would burn about 2.4 million... [Read More]
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Aug 10, 2009
In the US, Virginia-based green energy specialist Osage BioEnergy has joined forces with agriculture expert Perdue Agribusiness to supply barley for conversion to ethanol at a plant under construction in Hopewell, Virginia.
Perdue will work with local farmers to supply 28 million bushels of barley to the 65Mgy bioethanol plant. The ethanol will be sold in local markets... [Read More]
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Aug 10, 2009
US-based National Wind Solutions (NWND) has bought an undisclosed biodiesel plant in Texas for $3 million (€2.1 million) and has announced its intention to convert it to produce biodiesel from second-generation feedstock.
After successfully producing soyabean biodiesel for commercial transportation uses, the plant was mothballed by its original producers because of... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2009
In the US, the Minnesota-based Guardian Energy has agreed to purchase a 100Mgy corn ethanol plant in Janesville, Minnesota from the financial services company AgStar Lending Group. Guardian Energy hopes to close the deal by 15 September.
The Janesville plant has passed through a string of owners since planning originally began in 2004. The plant was originally built... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2009
The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) has complained to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about possible errors in the data modelling used in the proposed enhanced Renewable Fuels Standard, widely known as RFS2.
The RFA has long had concerns about the EPA's proposal to force all producers of biofuels to take into account the effects of indirect land use... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2009
The volume of anhydrous ethanol exported from Brazil to the US has fallen from 376.2 million litres in Q2 2008 to 22.3 million litres in Q2 2009.
Several factors explain this dramatic reduction. Rains during much of June reduced the number of days available for sugarcane crushing, lowering the volume of cane harvested as well as the sucrose content of the cane. This... [Read More]
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Aug 5, 2009
Dan Bulzan from the NASA Glenn Research Centre is the latest speaker to confirm his attendance at the upcoming Biofuels International Canada expo & conference, organised by leading publication Biofuels International magazine.
Bulzan will be talking about 'Green Aeronautics': the work NASA is doing to make aircraft more environmentally friendly through R&D... [Read More]
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Aug 5, 2009
US-based second-generation biofuel company PetroAlgae is investigating the use of microcrops other than algae as feedstocks. PetroAlgae claims its technology, which uses the miniature flowering plant lemna, is ready for commercialisation.
PetroAlgae currently operates two labs and one customer demonstration facility, all in the US state of Florida. The customer demonstration... [Read More]
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