Dec 3, 2008
The Philippines gets malunggay biodiesel plant
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Dec 3, 2008
Malaysia’s government has approved 91 biodiesel production licences with a total capacity of 10.2 million tonnes of biodiesel.
Deputy minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities senator A. Kohilan Pillay says that to further promote the use of renewable and sustainable forms of energy on 30 October the government approved the mandatory blending of 5% palm methyl... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
Espoo, Finland-based VTT Technical Research Center, the largest applied research organisation in Northern Europe, has launched a three-year project to produce biodiesel from waste generated by a Vietnamese fish processing plant.
VTT is working with organisations in France, Germany, the UK and Vietnam on the project known as ENERFISH to construct a biodiesel facility... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
Air New Zealand has postponed its biofuel test flight planned for Wednesday 3 December after an Airbus crash last week near France.
The two-hour test flight, now scheduled for January, will use a jatropha-based fuel, which has been certified by engine maker Rolls-Royce. Air NZ will confirm the revised date later this week.
‘The full efforts and resources of Air NZ... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Brazil-based energy company Petrobras have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate for two years on research to accelerate the development and commercialisation of second-generation biofuels.
Research will be conducted jointly at NREL’s laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and in... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
The European Commission (EC) is contemplating new rules for biofuels by the end of 2010 to prevent production from causing destruction to rainforests.
Environmentalists have criticised the Commission's initial January proposals to instill 10% of all road transport fuel derived from renewable sources by 2020.
Of that 10% biofuels would play a key part, stoking the... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
The Oiltanking Vitória terminal in Brazil has loaded 5,000 m3 cargo of neutral grade ethanol into its first vessel, Fairchem Unicorn.
Loading was conducted in close cooperation with representatives of LASA, Bauche-Energy and SGS.
Oiltanking Vitória functions as a distribution and export hub for cargos moving through Brazil, the world’s leading and most competitive... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
France is preparing a national plan for renewable energy, which has set aside any assessment of the EU's biofuels draft directive to generate a 10% share of biofuels in transport by 2020.
France's Environment and Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo offered the national plan for renewable energies on 17 November.
The plan aims to bring the share of renewables... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
Germany's sugar farmers are targeting sales to the bioethanol industry to shift a large crop this season.
Germany is forecast to produce 3.6 million tonnes of refined sugar from its 2008/09 crop, in excess of the country's European Union sugar production quota of 2.7 million tonnes, which has been cut as part of EU reforms to curb farming subsidies.
The bioethanol... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras expects to export 605 million litres of ethanol in 2008.
Petrobras downstream director Paulo Roberto Costa says that 505 million litres will be shipped to the US, with the remaining 100 million litres sailing to Japan.
Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of ethanol and second largest producer after the US.
The country’s... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
US Green Energy Technology (GET) and the Philippines-based biotechnology firm Secura International (SIC) have signed an agreement to construct a $30 million (€23.7 million) biodiesel plant using malunggay oil as feedstock.
Malunggay is a versatile plant that can grow anywhere, except in rice-growing, flooded areas. It is suitable for rainfall of less than 1,000 millimeters... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
Malaysia’s government has approved 91 biodiesel production licences with a total capacity of 10.2 million tonnes of biodiesel.
Deputy minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities senator A. Kohilan Pillay says that to further promote the use of renewable and sustainable forms of energy on 30 October the government approved the mandatory blending of 5% palm methyl... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 3, 2008
Espoo, Finland-based VTT Technical Research Center, the largest applied research organisation in Northern Europe, has launched a three-year project to produce biodiesel from waste generated by a Vietnamese fish processing plant.
VTT is working with organisations in France, Germany, the UK and Vietnam on the project known as ENERFISH to construct a biodiesel facility... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 3, 2008
Air New Zealand has postponed its biofuel test flight planned for Wednesday 3 December after an Airbus crash last week near France.
The two-hour test flight, now scheduled for January, will use a jatropha-based fuel, which has been certified by engine maker Rolls-Royce. Air NZ will confirm the revised date later this week.
‘The full efforts and resources of Air NZ... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2008
Ineos Enterprises has postponed plans to build a £65 million (€77.6 million) biodiesel plant in Scotland, UK, due to unfavourable economic conditions.
The plant, to be located in Grangemouth near Falkirk, had a nameplate capacity of 500,000 tonnes.
Market volatility has led the company to return a £9 million grant which had been allocated by the Scottish government... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2008
Stratos Renewables, an agro-energy company developing a South American sugarcane ethanol operation, has secured sufficient land in the northern coastal region of Peru required for the production of up to 90 million gallons a year of sugarcane-based ethanol.
Stratos intends to use this land for extensive sugarcane cultivation, milling and distillation into ethanol primarily... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2008
The government of South Korea has announced plans to increase the biodiesel blend ratio from its current level of 1% to 3% by 2012.
In an effort to meet these targets, the government has extended industry tax breaks and has taken steps to increase local feedstock production to minimise import dependency, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)... [Read More]
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