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Mississippi-based Encore Energy Systems has announced plans to acquire various biodiesel production facilities which are operating under capacity and can be bought at significant discounts. This represents a major component of the company’s 2009 growth plan. It believes that consolidation of biodiesel assets will position the company as a premier producer and distributor of biodiesel…
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A report by Frost & Sullivan concludes that the robustness of national policies and security of feedstock supply will determine the success of native biofuels industries. Frost & Sullivan believes that the policies and the long term renewable fuel targets set by the European Union and the US will significantly assist in establishing second generation biofuels. They will also help sustain…
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The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has welcomed the measures in the 2009 Budget that encourage investment in low carbon jobs and anaerobic digestion, with the chancellor Alistair Darling announcing additional funding of €11 million (€12.2 million) of anaerobic digestion and waste infrastructure. The Secretary of State for Environment Hilary Benn announced…
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In Vietnam, Phuc Yen Company and businessman Ngo Xuan Tiec have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) to market, build and operate municipal waste-to-ethanol facilities in the country. The newly created joint venture Agresti Vietnam, a subsidiary of Agresti Biofuel, will employ the patented GeneSyst Gravity Pressure Vessel technology to produce ethanol and other saleable products from new waste…
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Construction on a €30 million biogas plant in Croatia, Europe’s largest, began on 14 May. The plant will be located at Ovcara farm outside the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar. The project has been initiated by Vukovar-based Bionergija company, established by a local Vupik agribusiness and several Croatian and foreign entrepreneurs. The future plant, which should be built by the end of…
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Sugarcane-based ethanol fuel is expected to provide for up to 75% of Brazil's light vehicle fuel market by 2020, the head of the state-run oil company Petrobras said. Chief executive of Petrobras Jose Sergio Gabrielli, claimed that the consumer demand for ethanol is growing because Brazilians are buying more ethanol fuel. He stated that one of the reasons for this was because 90% of all new…
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The first bioenergy research centre has been opened in the Chinese city of Nanning, in southern Guangxi Zhuang’s Autonomous Region. The research centre will be primarily studying the feedstocks of cassava, sugar cane and sweet sorghum to be used as the principle sources for new energy development. Huang Ribo, director of the research centre announced that further study into bioenergy will…
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Biomass-to-energy company Chemrec is evaluating possible sites in the state of Georgia, US, for developing integrated fuels-from-the-forest black liquor gasification biorefineries at pulp and paper mills. Chemrec biorefineries transform mills into producers of biofuels or biochemicals or even green electricity and power. Georgia with more than 24 million acres of forestland, only Oregon in the…
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A parliamentary motion has been tabled urging the British Government to review its proposal to remove the tax incentive on biofuels. At present, biodiesel is taxed at £0.20 (€0.23) per litre less than fossil diesel. The government proposes to remove this incentive in 2010, instead fining oil companies whose fuel contains less than 5% biodiesel, generating revenue for the exchequer on two…
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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 by US BioEnergy, which…
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Husky Energy has been awarded a grant of CA$72.8 million (€46.5 million) from the Canadian Government towards the cost of its ethanol plant in Minnedosa, Manitoba. The plant, which produces ethanol from corn, has a capacity of 130 million litres a year. The award will be funded under the CA$1.5 billion ecoENERGY scheme, which provides new plants with investment for infrastructure development…
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Germany has seen a huge increase in bioethanol consumption in the first half of 2009. According to German bioethanol association BDBE, bioethanol consumption leapt to 453,000 tonnes in the first half of 2009, up 61% on the year-earlier period. The increase in consumption was largely caused by the German government’s programme of raising compulsory blending of biofuels with fossil fuels to…
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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 and marketing NGBF…
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Bioenergy company Ineos Bio has got the green ball rolling on a project to convert locally-generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity. The green player has begun a £3.5 million (€3.9 million) feasibility study, which includes detailed engineering design work for a plant at the company’s Seal Sands site in the Tees…
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