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New York-based renewable fuels producer Innovation Fuels has acquired the former Shell Oil terminal at the Port of Milwaukee in the US. Innovation Fuels says it will use the 310,000 barrel capacity terminal to bring biodiesel and other renewable fuels in and out of the Midwest to the east coast and overseas. The terminal was built in the 1950s as Shell Oil's Milwaukee headquarters. It…
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Indiana, US-based Agresti, an ethanol-making venture, has signed an agreement with Vietnam’s Phuc Yen Co. to build and operate ethanol facilities in Vietnam. Agresti’s venture will produce ethanol from landfill waste in Vietnam using a gravity-pressure-vessel technology. Formerly known as Indiana Ethanol Power, Agresti plans to start building its first US project in Pike County, Kentucky in…
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US Laidlaw Energy Group, through its affiliate Laidlaw Berlin BioPower, has completed the acquisition of the former Fraser Paper pulp mill site in Berlin, New Hampshire. Laidlaw has been working on the site for the last two years to develop a 66 megawatt biomass-to-energy project. The company has also been working to line-up the requisite financing for the project. ‘The complex history of the…
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The UK’s Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) has released figures showing major fuel suppliers are continuing to fail government targets to supply biofuels that meet environmental standards. Nine companies are performing below their targets, including BP, which managed to report just 4% of its biofuels as meeting standards recognised by the Agency. Esso, Chevron, Murco, Prax and Topaz have failed to…
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A biodiesel project in Tanzania is looking at manufacturing biofuel using the oil from the nuts of the Croton tree. The Africa Biofuel and Emission Reduction project will take place in Tanzania's northwestern Kagera region where the Croton tree grows in abundance. The initiative is to replace up to 10% of Tanzania's oil requirements by 2018 through the production and sale of cheaper…
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Pennsylvania-based Lake Erie Biofuels is considering construction of a pipeline that would carry its biofuels products to Lake Erie's port facilities as an alternative to railroad cars. Raymond Schreckengost executive director of the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority says the company is now transporting about 1.5 million to 2 million gallons of biofuels a month by railroad cars to…
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Second generation ethanol company Verenium has announced plans to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Highlands County, Florida. The company has entered into long-term agreements with Florida agri-business Lykes Bros to provide the agricultural biomass for conversion to fuel. Verenium also announced that the Highlands Ethanol project has been awarded a $7 million…
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The decision by the German government to raise taxes on biofuels and to reduce blending rates in fossil fuels will mean more biodiesel plants in the country will face closure, a German biofuels industry association says. Europe’s largest biodiesel industry has been operating at under 60% of its 5 million tonne a year capacity, Johannes Lackmann, CEO of German biofuels industry association VDB,…
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PetroAlgae, a US-based developer of systems to produce biofuel from algae, announced that it has closed on a $10 million (€7.4 million) capital raise through the sale of approximately 3.2 million of newly-issued shares of common stock to two existing investors. The company said that the proceeds from the stock sale will be used to help finance the commercial launch of PetroAlgae’s biodiesel…
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded cellulosic ethanol producer Range Fuels a conditional commitment for an $80 million (€62 million) loan guarantee for the development and construction of its commercial cellulosic ethanol plant near Soperton, Georgia. Range Fuels was awarded this loan guarantee in part because they are working toward the development of commercially…
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US-headquartered Magellan Midstream Partners has added ethanol blending capabilities at two Texas-based terminals, including a third truck rack lane at its terminal in Fort Worth. The Fort Worth terminal now has 18,000 barrels of ethanol storage. In addition, the facility can receive ethanol via truck through an automated off-loading system that is open 24 hours a day. The West Fort Worth…
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US meat processing company JBS-Swift has announced it will open a biogas generation facility next to its Grand Island, Nebraska, beef packing plant in April. The beef packing plant slaughters 6,000 cattle each day. The operation, which will be owned and managed by Microgy, a subsidiary of Swift partner Environmental Power, is expected to generate 235,000 MMBtu of power a year, the equivalent of…
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The US’ second largest ethanol producer VeraSun Energy has suspended three distilleries, due to descending demand and high production costs. The company has discontinued output at its 100 million gallon a year plants in Bloomingburg, Ohio, Albion, Nebraska, and Linden, Indiana. Corn rose 58% from January to July last year before falling to 13% from year to year levels on 9 January. VeraSun…
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