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The emergence of specialty pipelines that deliver renewable and alternative energy substances from the point of production to points of blending, storage or end use will be a catalyst for growth in the development of current and future alternative fuel projects, according to Specialty Pipelines for Renewable and Alternative Energy Substances by market research publisher SBI Energy. The report…
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US meat processing company JBS-Swift has announced it will open a biogas generation facility next to its Grand Island, Nebraska, beef packing plant in April. The beef packing plant slaughters 6,000 cattle each day. The operation, which will be owned and managed by Microgy, a subsidiary of Swift partner Environmental Power, is expected to generate 235,000 MMBtu of power a year, the equivalent of…
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UK-based energy crop developer D1 Oils and its joint venture energy company partner BP have announced business plans to improve their fuel crop project using jatropha. D1 Oils Plant Science Limited (DOPSL), the company’s subsidiary, has developed the group’s global breeding programme in support of D1-BP Fuel Crops, establishing a central facility in Cape Verde and eight development centres…
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Biofuel Industries Group’s NextDiesel Adrian, Michigan-based biofuel plant may shut down operations when its current stock of material is gone, the company’s CEO says. The rising cost of production and falling price of oil have contributed to a decrease in the demand for alternative fuels. ‘The current cost of inputs to make the company’s product and the market price of diesel fuel make…
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South Africa’s Eastern Cape has been selected as the site for a pilot project for which marine algae will be used to convert carbon dioxide into biofuels and other products. Jacobs University in Germany has partnered with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to expand the research with the intention of establishing pilot sites at various Eastern Cape…
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Biodiesel supplier Canadian Bioenergy and crop-processing giant Archer Daniels Midland are carrying out a joint feasibility study that could see Canada's largest canola biodiesel plant built in Alberta. If the project proceeds, the companies will build the plant on the site of ADM's canola-crushing plant in Lloydminster and produce 265 million litres a year. The plant would need an…
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One of the world’s largest landfill gas-to-energy projects was formally unveiled in Istanbul, Turkey, on 25 April. The landfill gas project, owned by Ortadogu Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret, was developed as part of a national initiative to reduce the environmental impacts of solid waste facilities and use the landfills’ gas to generate electricity. Turkey has been modernising its energy…
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President Barrack Obama issued a presidential directive to the US Secretary of Agriculture to form an interagency biofuels group to aggressively accelerate the investment in and production of biofuels. Directive aims to make the biofuels industry cleaner and encourage output of ethanol made from non-food crops. The Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be headed by the secretaries of the…
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Cathay Forest Products has announced that it will pay CAD$2.9 million (€1.8 million) to acquire 40% of Eco-Energy China Group, a private biodiesel producer based in China's southwestern province of Guizhou. Cathay Forest, lists its shares in Canada and manages approximately one million hectares of standing timber and poplar plantations in China and Russia. The company claims its forestry…
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The Colombian government has issued a decree that beginning in 2012 all new vehicles must bear E-85 flex-fuel technology. The decision will see biofuel production in the South American country continue to rise as it is already expecting record levels of production from both ethanol and biodiesel with five new facilities coming online within the year. Colombia, the second-largest producer of…
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Brazilian company Vale plans to develop a $305 million (€218 million) palm oil biodiesel project, with the capacity to produce 500,000 tonnes of palm oil and 48 Mgy of biodiesel. The plant, which is to be completed by 2014, will utilise feedstock produced by a consortium formed between Vale and Biopalma da Amazônia. The biodiesel will be used in a B20 concentration to supply locomotives in…
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Brazil’s largest producer of sugar and ethanol Cosan has signed a three-year contract with Mitsubishi to export bioethanol to the Japanese market starting in 2010. Cosan will ship around 80,000 kl of bioethanol a year, reports say. Mitsubishi will the import it as the raw material for making ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE), a petroladditive used for production of biopetrol. Brazilian-made…
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The world market for biofuels is set to rise from $100 billion (€70 billion) to over $280 billion by 2022, according to a report by the Pike Institute. The report predicts that the increasing number of countries introducing biofuel consumption mandates and the higher production capacity from improved second-generation feedstocks will drive a worldwide annual growth rate of 15% between 2009…
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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 locally produced biomass…
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