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Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels (NGB) has announced a biofuel sales contract with Tri Gas and Oil of Federalsburg, Maryland, to market and distribute NGB biofuel. The contract states, Tri Gas and Oil will endeavour to sell up to one million gallons in the first year of the three-year contract. Tri Gas and Oil will market NGB biofuel to its existing and new customers who use…
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Enerkem, a leading waste-to-biofuels technology company, has announced that Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels (EGAB) has been granted a permit to commence construction of a commercial facility to produce biofuels and green chemicals from sorted municipal solid waste in Edmonton, Alberta. The plant will enable the city of Edmonton to increase its waste diversion rate from 60 to 90% and to…
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Six new ethanol projects in Columbia this year will add 1.37 million litres a day of new production. The present level is 1.05 million litres a day. Colombia, the number two ethanol producer in Latin America after Brazil, is seeking new investors to join projects to boost ethanol production capacity and create jobs in the South American country, Agriculture Minister Andres Fernandez Acosta…
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Virgin Galactic, a subsidiary of the Virgin Group, is constructing space ships that are designed to run in part on alternative fuels. Over the past few months, pilots have conducted several test flights of the space-launch vehicle Eve. Eve's jet engines will run on kerosene initially but are also capable of running on butanol, a biofuel that can be made from algae. ‘The [carbon] cost of…
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to focus on renewable fuels during his state visit to Beijing, hoping to team up with China to develop biofuels. Lula stressed his priorities for the visit was to focus on renewable fuels, especially ethanol and bio-diesel. The two developing countries already have strong trade ties. Brazil has been promoting its ethanol technology to…
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Baystate Biofuels, a Massachusetts-based company, is preparing to open the first full-scale commercial biodiesel terminal in the state. The construction of the terminal in North Andover will begin by the end of May and is expected to begin selling environmentally friendly biodiesel by the September. The company plans to distribute biodiesel to oil companies seeking to comply with…
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German biodiesel producer Petrotec has announced that it has undertaken an internal restructuring programme that is likely to lead to the release of more than 20 employees within the coming days. It says the restructuring programme is deemed necessary to ensure the company’s survival. Spokesman of the Board of German biodiesel producer Petrotec, Roger Böing, has stepped down from his…
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At least four new power stations being planned around the UK are considering turning to burning vegetable oils with the assurance that they will generate less pollution than burning fossil fuels. Two of the power stations would power more than 50,000 homes are considering burning palm oil, which is blamed for causing rainforest destruction in south-east Asia. W4B Energy has submitted a…
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India Emami Biotech is planning to extend its biodiesel sales in Calcutta with the introduction of mobile biodiesel dispensing units. The company has applied for approval from various authorities, and initially plans to launch two to three units with the number rising depending on the feedback. The move is seen as an attempt by the company, one of the major bio-diesel makers in the country, to…
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Commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus Commodities has begun operation at its new 100 million gallon ethanol plant at Grand Junction, Iowa. The new plant is the second ethanol plant opened this week in the state of Iowa, and will produce 100 million gallons of ethanol and 300,000 tonnes of distillers grains annually. A week ago Homeland Energy Solutions opened another new facility at New Hampton. …
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The Brazilian government will deliberate over plans to increase the local biodiesel blending level from 3% to 4% in July this year. As a world leader in the production of soyabean oil, the implications of these new plans will result in sharply reducing its export. If the new mandate is implemented the export of soyabean oil from Brazil may be ruled out during the second half of 2009. Brazil…
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The EU has become the main importer of Argentine biodiesel since December, 2008, replacing the US as the sole buyer in April 2009. The prominent companies in the sector are Renova, Ecofuel, Louis Dreyfus Commodities, and Explore.
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Ecopellets, an Ireland-based supplier of wood pellet fuel, is investing more than €110 million in the development of a biomass complex and wind farm in Wales, UK. Ecopellets intends to apply for planning permission for a wood-biomass electricity plant and a four turbine commercial wind farm. The biomass plant and wind farm will be designed to generate 40 MW of electricity, which is enough…
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