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US Biofuels and Go Green Home Stores have come together to plan the construction of an algae biodiesel plant in Rosemont, California. New American company, Go Green Home Stores has partnered with US Biofuels to, start up algae production in mid fall in order to produce 500,000 gallons of biodiesel gas. The two companies plan to produce algae to make oil that can be refined into petrol that is…
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President Barrack Obama issued a presidential directive to the US Secretary of Agriculture to form an interagency biofuels group to aggressively accelerate the investment in and production of biofuels. Directive aims to make the biofuels industry cleaner and encourage output of ethanol made from non-food crops. The Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be headed by the secretaries of the…
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Researchers from Fermentec, Piracicaba (Brazil), have cut the volume of vinasse in half while producing ethanol at its pilot plant. Vinasse is a by-product of sugar-based ethanol production. The achievement was obtained due to the increase the ethanol concentration in fermentation. Currently the distillery in Brazil working with alcohol content between 8% and 10%, resulting 10 to 12 litres to…
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Malaysian biodiesel producer Mission Biotechnologies has been awarded International Sustainability and Carbon Certification. The biodiesel producer is the first Asian company to receive the certification and will provide it with export entree to the European Union. The ISCC programme closely conforms to the EU’s latest renewable energy directive (RED) biofuel content, which encompasses…
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Germany's biodiesel industry is currently working at below 60% capacity because of higher taxes on green fuels and reduced blending levels with fossil fuels. Germany was likely to consume about 2.5 million tonnes of biodiesel in 2009, down from 2.7 million tonnes in 2008 and 3.3 million tonnes in 2007, said Johannes Daum, political director of German biofuels industry association…
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Greenergy, the UK’s largest biofuel supplier, will refurbish existing tankage at Vopak’s Seal Sands terminal to create an 80 million litre advanced petrol, diesel and biofuel blending terminal, in a scheme worth more than £10 million (€11.2 million). The facility will deliver diesel supplies by June and full petrol and diesel blending and loading facilities from April 2010. Vopak will…
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Energy consulting firm Peregrine Energy announced its plan to develop a new woody biomass-fuelled cogeneration plant at Sonoco's manufacturing complex in Hartsville South Carolina. The company will invest €100 million for the project. The construction of the plant is scheduled to begin once the air permit is issued and the company expects the facility to be commercially operational by…
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Dynamotive USA has secured a supply of 220,000 tonnes per year of sawdust from timber producer Springhill Land and Timber for a proposed bio-oil plant in Arkansas, US. The contract secures an initial 10-year term for the feedstock supply with pricing linked to energy prices in the region. Dynamotive Energy uses fast pyrolysis technology to convert waste cellulosic biomass into bio-oil for…
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South Korea will spend €208 million over the next ten years to create new seaweed forests that can help increase the country's ability to produce biomass energy. The plan calls for 35,000 hectares of seaweed forest to be created in waters in the east and south coasts and near Jeju Island that can produce up to 1.56 billion litres of ethanol per year by 2020. The total is equivalent to…
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British Columbia-based Lignol Energy, a technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations, was awarded €2.6 million to produce cellulosic ethanol and other biochemical products from under-used forest resources. Lignol will use the funding to support production runs at its industrial-scale biorefinery…
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Automotive fuels supplier FCL Petroleum has signed an agreement with Petrochem Carless releasing FCL biodiesel to the UK market. The advanced fuels will be pre-blended biodiesel made from fully sustainable sources. Blending will take place at the Petrochem Carless refinery at Harwich where blends from B5 (5% sustainable fuel) to B50 (50% sustainable fuel) will be produced. The announcement…
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BP has called for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to end US import duties on Brazil's sugarcane-based ethanol. The letter has highlighted BP’s belief that ‘sugarcane-based ethanol will be the lowest-carbon biofuel available in the first years of the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard’. By supporting the end of import taxes on Brazil's ethanol, the letter states, California would…
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Australian biofuels producer Mission NewEnergy has raised €2.7 million from international investors. In conjunction with the recently announced €12.8 million debt financing, Mission has sufficient funds to complete its second biodiesel facility. This capital raise also provides Mission with further operational flexibility. Mission will issue 24,137,931 units raising €2,600,000. Mission…
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