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Finland-based Neste Oil laid the foundation stone for Europe’s largest renewable diesel plant last week, coinciding with the second annual Biofuels International expo & conference in the Netherlands.
The Rotterdam plant will have an annual production capacity of 800,000 tonnes. The investment cost of the plant is estimated to be €670 million, and it will create over 100 jobs.
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The partnership between BP and DuPont to accelerate its next generation clean renewable fuels has successfully tested biobutanol over 1.3 million miles in an ordinary car.
In an exclusive interview for the June issue of Biofuels International magazine BP's Philip New says typical blends of around 16% were used without the need for modifications.
Like ethanol, biobutanol can be produced…
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Chinese bioenergy producer Gushan Environmental Energy has announced the temporary suspension of production at its subsidiary Fujian Gushan Biodiesel Energy following a dispute with a local tax authority concerning consumption tax issues.
In January consumption tax rates on diesel products were levied, but Gushan has appealed to the State Administration of Taxation of Fujian Province Fujian SAT…
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Innovation Fuels plans to begin biodiesel operations later this month at a New Haven port terminal in Connecticut, US.
The biodiesel producer has announced that intermodal connections in the area will enable the company to position itself as a biodiesel distributor for the region.
The company will receive biodiesel by barge from its production plant in Newark, New Jersey, and ship it by rail…
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Ethanol Technologies has been awarded AUD$2.9 million (€1.65 million) by the Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to scale up a cellulosic ethanol process technology.
The subsidiary of forestry products company Willmott Forests will use the funding to pay for the construction of a $20 million pilot-scale biorefinery in Harwood, New South Wales, which is to be…
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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 provincial government in Saskatchewan, Canada, has signed an agreement with biotechnology company Iogen to develop the province’s first cellulosic ethanol plant.
It was announced that the plant is to be situated at the former Domtar-owned pulp and sawmill in Big River.
Iogen will operate the plant, which will be a commercial-scale expansion of its wheat straw ethanol demonstration plant…
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The city of Lünen, Germany, has begun building a new biogas distribution network, which will be powered by agricultural waste, including cow dung and horse manure.
It is thought that approximately 90,000 residents will benefit from the development, and will make the town the first in the world to build and manage a biogas network.
Local farms will deliver animal waste, corn, wheat and grass as…
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Swedish company Chemrec has entered into an agreement with The Stella Group to support the company’s efforts to raise awareness of Chemrec’s integrated biorefineries at pulp and paper mills.
Chemrec’s technology converts black liquor, a mill byproduct, into renewable biofuels, biomaterials or power.
The company has plans to design, build and operate integrated biorefineries throughout the…
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The European Commission has submitted a proposal to extend the temporary tariffs imposed on imports of US biodiesel for up to five years.
The anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs passed in March were established in order to protect European biodiesel producers by counteracting the payments the US gives its own producers.
European biofuel producers stressed that US subsidies triggered an…
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The US’ 2,000th E85 fuelling station opened in the community of Davie, Florida, at the U-Gas retail station on 28 May.
The expansion of the ethanol industry is allowing small communities all across the U.S. to benefit from the new jobs and economic opportunities the production of renewable fuels offers.
‘Increasing the production and use of ethanol in places like Florida is helping provide…
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In the US, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) is requesting more transparency over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
The RFA says many of the models, data sets, and other pertinent pieces of information used by EPA for its lifecycle analysis are not publicly available, preventing third parties like the RFA from replicating and…
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Scientists in Wales, UK, are looking into a research project aiming to turn grass into a green transport fuel.
The £1 million (€1.16 million) ‘grassohol’ research project aims to develop commercially and economically viable processes to make ethanol from perennial ryegrass, the most commonly sown grass in the UK, which is normally used for grazing or silage.
The project, led by the…
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Biomass plant specialist Helius Energy has announced that it has seen profits for the last six months to 31 March 2009, and has projected expansion plans to add a third multi-million-pound plant to its portfolio.
The UK-based company has reported an £18,000 (€20,824) profit up from a loss of £1.6 million at the same point last year. The company believes it is now in a strong position to…
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Industrial enzymes maker Novozymes has reported that Brazil could produce up to 8 billion litres of biofuel from sugarcane residues (bagasse) by 2020, representing additional export revenue for Brazil of up to US$4 billion (€4.6 billion).
Novozymes, which sells enzymes that turn crops such as corn, soya and sugarcanes into bio-ethanol products, expect Brazil to be able to start large-scale…
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