Mar 13, 2017
Oil refiners shelled out $2bn in 2016 to meet Renewable Fuel Standard requirements
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Mar 13, 2017
Growing sustainable energy crops without increasing greenhouse gas emissions, may be possible on seasonally wet, environmentally-sensitive landscapes, according to US-based researchers who conducted a study on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land.
Debasish Saha, postdoctoral in plant sciences, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences and colleagues, measured the... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2017
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has said that he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.
"I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it's a... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2017
A member of a European Parliamentary group is calling on the European Commission to take measure to promote the responsible cultivation of palm oil and phase out its use for biofuels.
Czech GUE/NGL (European United Left/Nordic Green Left) member Kateřina Konečná has made the call.
Although palm oil was barely employed some 30 years ago, its use has more than doubled... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2017
Oil giant BP has announced that it will buy Clean Energy Fuels Corp.’s biomethane business for $155 million (€147m).
Clean Energy Fuels is a US provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America.
In a statement, BP said that the deal enables both companies to accelerate the growth in renewable natural gas supply and meet the growing demand... [Read More]
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Feb 24, 2017
China is the global leader in methanol use and has recently expanded methanol production capacity, according to new figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The official energy statistics from the US government come from the EIA.
Since the early 2000s, China’s methanol consumption in fuel products has risen sharply and is estimated to have been... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2017
Dubai-based Neutral Fuels has become the first company to successfully use butter, cream, and ghee waste as a feedstock for creating commercial biofuel.
The new fuel is of the same quality as the vegetable oil-derived biofuel that Neutral Fuels produces and which has fuelled McDonald's UAE's logistics fleet for almost seven million kilometres over the past four years.
Karl... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2017
The development of large-scale energy projects, including the Site C hydroelectric dam, threatens to drive bioenergy and biofuel production away from British Columbia (B.C.), experts warn.
Jack Saddler, a researcher at the University of B.C. and part of a project to convert forest residues to biojet fuel, told CBC News that big energy projects could drive out innovation... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2017
Growth Energy, a trade body for US ethanol producers, has welcomed the confirmation of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In response to Pruitt’s confirmation, Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor, issued the following statement: “We congratulate Pruitt on his confirmation as Administrator of the EPA.... [Read More]
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Feb 16, 2017
Overall global biofuel output is projected to reach 67 billion gallons per year (BGY) by 2022, from the 59 billion gallons achieved in 2016.
According to a fresh market report by Lux Research, new biofuel technology is “finally” starting to push aside traditional biofuels, such as first-generation biodiesel.
New facilities based on non-food feedstocks and producing... [Read More]
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Feb 14, 2017
US advanced biofuels company has announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with HCS Holding (HCS) to supply isooctane under a five-year offtake agreement.
HCS is a manufacturer of specialty products and solutions in the hydrocarbons sector, operating under the brands Haltermann Carless, ETS Racing Fuels and EOS. HCS is owned by HIG Capital. ... [Read More]
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Feb 14, 2017
There have been at least four major power outages in several states in Australia over the last 5 months impacting millions of customers due the country’s switch from fossil fuels to renewable sources, according to UK-based union GMB.
GMB, the union for workers in the energy sector in the UK, is calling on the UK and devolved governments as well as Ofgem and National... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2017
A group of Republican elder statesmen is calling for a tax on carbon emissions to fight climate change, according to a report in the New York Times.
The group, led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, with former Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Henry M. Paulson Jr., a former secretary of the Treasury, says that taxing carbon pollution produced by burning... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2017
Coffee chain Caffè Nero has unveiled plans to recycle coffee grounds from 122 of its London stores to make coffee logs, which can be used in boilers and woodburners.
The scheme, which was formally announced late last week but which has been running since July 2016, sees recycling specialists First Mile pick up coffee waste from Caffè Nero stores and take... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2017
India state-controlled oil and gas company Bharat Petroleum’s Assam based facility Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has signed a term sheet with Chempolis, a Finland -based bio refining technology for setting up a biorefinery unit.
The term sheet will be the basis for formation of a joint venture agreement for implementation... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2017
The Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has said that biofuels would soon become the West African country’s foreign exchange earner, if “we can apply both our mind and might into it”.
According to local newspaper Leadership, Kachikwu made the statement at a sensitisation workshop on biofuels development in Nigeria with the... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2017
In a historic first, Global Bioenergies has announced the production of ETBE from renewable resources. The breakthrough heralds a new opportunity for increasing the proportion of biofuels in gasoline, according to the French renewable fuels company.
Current standards limit the inclusion of traditional biofuels because of their physical and chemical properties. For example,... [Read More]
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