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Tenaska BioFuels (TBF) has signed a two-year tolling arrangement with Tri-State Financial. The arrangement will allow ethanol production to resume at Tri-State's North Country Ethanol facility in Rosholt, South Dakota, US.
Under the agreement, TBF will purchase corn and natural gas, which Tri-State will use to produce ethanol and distillers grains. TBF will own all materials processed at…
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August and September saw a rush of renewable fuels projects approaching the US Navy. Now The United States Air Force is looking at a greener future.
The Air Force will undertake research related to alternative fuels, in a shift to move away from heavy consumption of fossil fuels.
The $2.5 million (€1.67 million) Assured Aerospace Fuels Research Facility, located at the Wright-Patterson Air…
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Controversy surrounding biofuels and its impact on natural ecosystems finds it home in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest.
However, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have dropped 45.7% from August 2008 to July 2009.
According to new data based on analysis of satellite imagery by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), an estimate…
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In Florida, US, Port Everglades wants to upgrade idled tanks to develop as an ethanol hub but finding a company to do the job has caused set-backs.
A Broward County selection committee in April had picked one contender, an affiliate of a Brazilian company. But after repeated objections, it switched in October to the protesting runner-up, an Oklahoma firm. In early November the committee decided…
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Reducing green house gas emissions is a race of time, and now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says it may not meet a 1 December deadline to decide whether to approve an industry request to boost the amount of ethanol that can be blended into petrol.
Fifty-five ethanol manufacturers petitioned the EPA last March to allow petrol to contain up to 15% ethanol by volume, known as E15.…
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Next year will see a worldwide ethanol surplus of over half a billion litres.
A modest global ethanol surplus of around 700 million litres is set to come in during 2010, according to F.O. Licht analysis.
Total consumption in the US, Europe, Asia could increase to 76.4 billion litres, while supply is estimated at around 77.1 billion.
Referring to the modest global ethanol surplus expected in…
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The inaugural Biofuels International Canada expo & conference attracted over 300 attendees from as far as Mexico, Peru, UAE and Peru – all wanting to learn more about the sector in Canada.
This year’s Biofuels International Canada expo & conference was perfectly timed to bring together regulators, producers, suppliers, traders and other experts just before new targets are brought in…
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Nine biomass plants could be built in Scotland, UK, if a funding programme is fruitful.
UK-based investment company Invicta Capital has launched a fund aiming to raise £300 million (€336.5 million) to invest in the plants, which will produce up to 90 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy.
The plants will produce enough power to supply 140,000 homes using biomass technology whereby organic…
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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 gases than fossil…
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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 environmental…
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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 Daimler plus a consortium…
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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 litres a year.
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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 programme will not use…
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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 already…
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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 UOP technology, in…
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