Nov 14, 2016
Carbon emissions stable for third year in a row, study finds
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Nov 9, 2016
Two men based in Florida, US, were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison in a more than $46 million (€41m) biodiesel fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice reported.
Thomas Davanzo of Estero and Robert Fedyna of Naples were sentenced on Monday for a scheme with co-conspirators at Gen-X Energy Group in Pasco, Washington, and subsidiary Southern Resources... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2016
Fulcrum BioEnergy and BP have signed a major strategic partnership that includes a $30 million (€27m) equity investment in Fulcrum by BP.
With Fulcrum's first plant under construction, the company says the partnership accelerates the construction schedule for its next renewable jet fuel plants.
Fulcrum and Air BP, the aviation division of BP, have also agreed... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2016
Indian bioenergy crop research and development company Advanced Biofuel Center (ABC) has reached a breakthrough in the use of moringa oil in biofuel production.
ABC has developed a new variety of moringa tree seed, named Maru-Moringa (MOMAX3) after the location of its discovery, after several years research and trials.
The MOMAX3 cultivar is noteworthy for producing very... [Read More]
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Nov 7, 2016
The European Commission (EC) has approved an investment package of €222.7 million from the EU budget to support Europe's transition to a more sustainable and low-carbon future.
The EU funding will spur additional investments leading to a total of €398.6 million to be invested into 144 new projects in 23 member states.
The support comes from the LIFE programme,... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2016
The Paris agreement on climate change has come into force today (4 November, 2016).
This marks the first time that governments have agreed legally binding limits to global temperature rises.
Under the agreement, all governments that have ratified the accord, which includes the US, China, India and the EU, now carry an obligation to hold global warming to no more than 2C... [Read More]
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Nov 3, 2016
Crude oil prices have continued to fall after data showed the biggest weekly US crude surplus on record.
According to Wall Street Journal, the supply data prompted investors to reduce expectations that two years of oversupply in the oil markets is coming to an end. US prices immediately shed nearly $1 a barrel and losses spread into gasoline and diesel futures.
US crude... [Read More]
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Nov 3, 2016
Renewable Energy Group reports a strong third quarter 2016, with revenues of $624.6 million (€562.8,) and 163.1 million gallons of fuel sold.
Net income attributable to common stockholders was $22.9 million, compared to a net loss of $15.7 million in the third quarter of 2015.
REG sold 36% more gallons of fuel, resulting in a 58.2% increase in revenue from $394.8... [Read More]
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Nov 1, 2016
A new report by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, finds that Egypt’s cement producers could save money and lower greenhouse gas emissions by using waste, so-called alternative fuels, to power their production facilities.
The study, Unlocking Value: Alternative Fuels for Egypt’s Cement Industry, assessed the potential for producers to increase the... [Read More]
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Oct 31, 2016
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has named Donnell Rehagen as the trade group’s CEO. Rehagen was named interim CEO in June after serving 12 years as NBB’s chief operating officer.
“We couldn’t be more excited to elevate Donnell to the permanent position of CEO,” said NBB chairman Ron Marr.
He added: “His detailed knowledge of our organisation... [Read More]
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Oct 27, 2016
EXCLUSIVE. The date for the publication of the post-2020 Renewable Energy Directive (RED) has been mooted by an industry expert speaking at a biofuels conference.
An industry expert close to the sector, who spoke at the Argus Biofuels conference and wished not to be named, said that he believed RED phase two was due to come out on 7 December, 2016.
However, in a... [Read More]
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Oct 27, 2016
Peru is the latest country to place anti-dumping tariffs on imports of biodiesel from Argentina for a period of five years, after complaints of unfair competition, the South American’s market regulator said.
According to Reuters, Peru, the second-largest export market for Argentine biodiesel, passed the measure "to prevent the imports of the biofuel to continue harming... [Read More]
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Oct 25, 2016
The rapeseed oil industry was valued at $23.76 billion (€21.83bn) in 2014, and is expected to reach $35.39 billion by 2021 at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9%.
Rapeseed oil is extracted from rape crop which is the third largest crop cultivated in Europe.
Credence Research forecasts in a new market study that the global industry for rapeseed oil is anticipated... [Read More]
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Oct 21, 2016
Scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have turned lignin into a source of biofuel by simply adding a common chemical
The patent-pending method that converts up to 80% of lignin into valuable molecules for biofuel and plastics and can be scaled up to industrial levels has been published in Science.
Lignin is an enormously... [Read More]
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Oct 20, 2016
Five established research centres across the UK have formed a new alliance seeking to position Britain as a global leader in biorefining technology development and bio-based product manufacture.
The founding centres of the BioPilotsUK projects are BEACON (Wales), the Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC – York), the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI – Redcar),... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2016
A joint investment between UK’s BBSRC and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in Brazil has been made to support collaborations between UK and Brazilian scientists in advanced biofuels research.
The funding – £3.5 million (€3.9m) from BBSRC with equivalent funding of £1.5 million from FAPESP – has been awarded to two partnerships... [Read More]
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Oct 18, 2016
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC), aided by a $1.87 million (€1.7m) federal grant, has embarked on a three-year project to study the production of sorghum as biomass for fuel and high-value chemicals in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The project, involving scientists at land-grant universities in two Southeast US states and numerous industry partners,... [Read More]
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