Jan 7, 2009
Magellan Midstream enhances ethanol facilities
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Jan 6, 2009
Portugal-based biodiesel producer Gleinol is set to install a unit to produce biodiesel in Castelo Branco using oil-producing plants from Angola.
Gleinol has set up partnerships in Africa and in Brazil to obtain raw materials for the project, José Luís Brito, Gleinol director, comments.
Gleinol started out with a production area of 700 hectares in Angola, which recently... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
The Philippines-based San Carlos BioEnergy will start commercial operations of its P2.5-billion (€38.9 million) integrated ethanol distillery and co-generation power plant by mid-January.
The project responds to the country’s 5% ethanol mandate to commence in February.
San Carlos BioEnergy started testing and commissioning of the plant in December.
The plant, located... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
US state Pennsylvania has signed a letter of agreement with 10 other eastern states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels and other sources by developing a regional low carbon fuel standard.
Vehicles using low carbon transport fuels include cars fuelled with biodiesel and ethanol, especially cellulosic ethanol made from non-food plant materials;... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
PetroAlgae, a US-based developer of systems to produce biofuel from algae, announced that it has closed on a $10 million (€7.4 million) capital raise through the sale of approximately 3.2 million of newly-issued shares of common stock to two existing investors.
The company said that the proceeds from the stock sale will be used to help finance the commercial launch... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
The Rees Labor Government in Australia is set to approve a AUD$400 million (€208.7 million) expansion of an ethanol plant owned by the Manildra Group, the largest manufacturer of ethanol in Australia.
The plan for expanding ethanol fuel production at the Shoalhaven Starches Plant is due to be approved this week by Planning Minister Kristina Keneally.
The approval... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
The Philippines Department of Energy (DoE) will accredit five biofuels manufacturing facilities in 2009.
The DoE says the new plants will ensure adequate local supply biofuels and meet the mandated higher biofuels blend.
‘Alternative fuels are currently in various stages of development and uses as it will become more crucial to the country’s energy mix,’ the DoE... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
Iowa State University has received a $2.37 million (€1.74 million) grant from the Iowa Power Fund to replace natural gas usage in ethanol plants with biomass gasification technology.
The project will examine the production of ethanol from syngas.
It will also study more efficient burners to use the syngas production from biomass gasification for thermal energy or... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama has elaborated his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan with a target to further expand the US’ renewable energy sector.
‘To put people back to work today and reduce our dependence on foreign oil tomorrow, we will double renewable energy production and renovate public buildings to make them more energy efficient,’ Obama said on Saturday... [Read More]
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Jan 2, 2009
US-based Liberty Green Renewables Indiana plans to build a 28 megawatt biomass-to-electricity plant on 110 acres northwest of Milltown, Indiana.
The Crawford County plant will cost $80-90 million (€57-64.5 million).
Funding for the project is expected to come through equity investments, bank financing, local tax abatement and federal New Markets Tax Credits, which... [Read More]
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Jan 2, 2009
Nigeria-based Global Biofuels is establishing the first of a number of refineries for the production of bioethanol from sweet sorghum.
Ethanol will be blended with petrol to make E10.
Global Biofuels is planning to establish the project in nine Nigerian states. It expects to start production in December 2009, with an initial production capacity of 27 million litres a... [Read More]
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Dec 31, 2008
Texas-based GreenHunter Biofuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, has received approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell GreenHunter Biodiesel to the on-road market in the US.
This approval by the EPA improves GreenHunter Energy’s biodiesel distribution capabilities in the US, and further enhances the company’s strategy of diversifying... [Read More]
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Dec 30, 2008
A new agreement between Pacific West Energy and Kaua'i Island Utility Co-op (KUIC) in Hawaii looks likely to advance plans for a sugar-ethanol plant on Kauai, which could become the first sugar-based ethanol plant in the US.
Washington, US-based Pacific West intends to retrofit Gay & Robinson's Kaumakani sugar mill to produce 15 million gallons a year of... [Read More]
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Dec 30, 2008
An Air New Zealand passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight on Tuesday 30 December.
One engine of a Boeing 747-400 aeroplane was powered by a 50-50 blend of oil from jatropha plants and standard A1 jet fuel.
The flight was the first to use jatropha as part of a biofuel mix.
The test flight out of Auckland International... [Read More]
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Dec 30, 2008
Brazil’s ethanol sales for 2008 are accelerating past petrol sales for the first time, the National Petroleum Agency reports.
The figures take into account sales of hydrated ethanol that can be used in its pure form in most cars in Brazil, and not anhydrous ethanol that is used just to blend with petrol, the agency says.
Sales of hydrated ethanol through October reached... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
The European Union (EU) has granted £5 million (€5.1 million) to a Scotland, UK-led project to develop marine-based biofuels.
The Scottish Association for Marine Sciences in Oban will lead development work with partners from Ireland.
They will look at the viability of using marine biomass from seaweed and algae as an alternative to agri-fuel production from land-based... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
UK-based Bentley Motors is developing bioethanol-powered versions of its large engine models.
The car manufacturer also targets a cut in carbon dioxide emissions from its range by 40% within three years.
Bentley is working to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions across its fleet: its output is currently an average 400g/km.
Bentley will unveil its first bioethanol-powered... [Read More]
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