Dec 29, 2008
US DoE announces biofuel refineries funding
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Dec 29, 2008
Poet Biorefining - Laddonia, Missouri is undergoing a $2 million (€1.4 million) expansion that will increase the plant’s capacity and provide a larger market for locally produced corn.
Work has already begun on installation of a sixth fermenter at the plant. It is expected to be completed in April 2009.
Poet Biorefining - Laddonia was built in September 2006 with... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
BioWanze, the Belgian subsidiary of Germany-based ethanol producer CropEnergies, has started production at its next-generation bioethanol plant in Wanze, Belgium.
The bioethanol plant, the largest in Belgium, will produce up to 300,000m³ of bioethanol a year from wheat and sugar syrups.
The manufacturing process, which uses biomass as a primary energy source, lowers... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food for Progress programme has funded a biodiesel facility in Guatemala.
The Biodiesel Mazat Agui facility in the country’s coastal region of Escuintla began operations this month.
The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University was also involved in establishing the cooperative biodiesel... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
New York-headquartered clean technology development company GreenShift has received a $38 million (€26 million) investment to produce biodiesel from corn oil extracted from ethanol plants.
GreenShift will receive the investment in a new GreenShift joint venture subsidiary that will use the proceeds to build 12 corn oil extraction facilities and to expand the capacity... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
Escalating demand for E10 fuel in Jamaica has driven plans to expand the market.
‘We intend to have at least some Petcom stations providing up to E85 in the coming year,’ Ministry of Energy Portfolio Minister Clive Mullings says.
Demand for E10 ethanol blended petrol has nearly tripled the projected 3,000 barrels, with calls for 8,000 barrels a week.
The market's... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
The US will fall short of the Renewable Fuels Standard, the government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) warns.
The country will only blend about 30 billion gallons of fuels like corn-based ethanol and advanced fuels into petrol by 2022, 17% short of the US mandate of 36 billion gallons by that year, the EIA forecasts.
‘The key risk factor is the rate... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
Cuba will install a modern biogas industrial plant in central Cienfuegos province in 2009.
The plant will generate electricity using the excrement of pigs from the General Swine
Complex in the town of Palmira, and forms the beginning of a national programme.
It is estimated that only 50% of more than 700 biogas plants in the country are in operation, but efforts are... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 18, 2008
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food for Progress programme has funded a biodiesel facility in Guatemala.
The Biodiesel Mazat Agui facility in the country’s coastal region of Escuintla began operations this month.
The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University was also involved in establishing the cooperative biodiesel... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 18, 2008
New York-headquartered clean technology development company GreenShift has received a $38 million (€26 million) investment to produce biodiesel from corn oil extracted from ethanol plants.
GreenShift will receive the investment in a new GreenShift joint venture subsidiary that will use the proceeds to build 12 corn oil extraction facilities and to expand the capacity... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 18, 2008
Escalating demand for E10 fuel in Jamaica has driven plans to expand the market.
‘We intend to have at least some Petcom stations providing up to E85 in the coming year,’ Ministry of Energy Portfolio Minister Clive Mullings says.
Demand for E10 ethanol blended petrol has nearly tripled the projected 3,000 barrels, with calls for 8,000 barrels a week.
The market's... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 18, 2008
The US will fall short of the Renewable Fuels Standard, the government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) warns.
The country will only blend about 30 billion gallons of fuels like corn-based ethanol and advanced fuels into petrol by 2022, 17% short of the US mandate of 36 billion gallons by that year, the EIA forecasts.
‘The key risk factor is the rate... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 18, 2008
Cuba will install a modern biogas industrial plant in central Cienfuegos province in 2009.
The plant will generate electricity using the excrement of pigs from the General Swine
Complex in the town of Palmira, and forms the beginning of a national programme.
It is estimated that only 50% of more than 700 biogas plants in the country are in operation, but efforts are... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 17, 2008
Japan Airlines (JAL) will be the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using camelina-based biofuel, planned for 30 January 2009 at Haneda Airport, Tokyo.
A blend of 50% biofuel and 50% traditional Jet-A jet (kerosene) fuel will be tested in one of the four Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines of a JAL-owned Boeing 747-300 aircraft.
The biofuel component to be... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2008
The Canadian province of Alberta will implement renewable fuel standards as part of a provincial energy strategy.
Beginning in 2010 Alberta will require regular fuel to contain 5% ethanol, and diesel to contain 2% renewable diesel. The blending requirements are in line with federal standards to reduce carbon emissions.
The province has set aside CA$239 million (€140... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2008
Japan Airlines (JAL) will be the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using camelina-based biofuel, planned for 30 January 2009 at Haneda Airport, Tokyo.
A blend of 50% biofuel and 50% traditional Jet-A jet (kerosene) fuel will be tested in one of the four Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines of a JAL-owned Boeing 747-300 aircraft.
The biofuel component to be... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 17, 2008
The Canadian province of Alberta will implement renewable fuel standards as part of a provincial energy strategy.
Beginning in 2010 Alberta will require regular fuel to contain 5% ethanol, and diesel to contain 2% renewable diesel. The blending requirements are in line with federal standards to reduce carbon emissions.
The province has set aside CA$239 million (€140... [Read More]
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The American Coalition for Ethanol (@ACE) has praised the inclusion and extension of the Clean Fuel Production Credit — commonly referred to as Section 45Z — in the final tax and spending package passed by Congress.
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