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The South African government shows support for Mabele Fuels' biofuel programme with a potential investment. Mabele Fuels, a clean energy company, has been awaiting subsidy approval from the government to build South Africa's largest biofuels refinery. Ben Martins, the South African minister of energy, reports that the final biofuels position paper will be published in May 2014. A 2% blend of…
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Springboard Biodiesel, a clean-technology manufacturer, launches a fully automated, zero-waste biodiesel production plant in Chico, California, designed for low-cost production of multiple feedstocks. The model processing facility, which will open on 1 May and is capable of producing up to 1,500 gallons per day, processes locally collected UCO feedstock and converts it into ASTM-grade B-100…
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The Veracruz government will open its first ethanol producing biofuel station. The fuel station is expected to provide biofuel for public transportation, according to Ossiel Castro de la Rosa, the director of the Bioenergy Institute of Veracruz. Several donors will present the organisation with a combined total of 240 million pesos (€13 million) in funding. 'We have gone through all the…
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W2 Energy, a green technology company, has started production at its biofuel plant in Cambridge, Ontario. The company's production will start on a batch basis and, after testing various small batches of fuel, are confident the plant will produce ASTM specification fuel on a consistent basis. Michael McLaren, CEO of W2 Energy, says: 'Our current plan is to ramp up production with our system to…
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The ethanol industry is expecting to export a record amount of ethanol in 2014, reports Nebraska Ethanol Board. As low carbon fuel standards continue to be implemented worldwide, this increases the ongoing demand for ethanol. Though this increase helps US ethanol producers ensure maximum profit by having an alternative method for selling, local experts are concerned about the effect this surge…
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The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA) has released its 2020 vision. Its 19 page Evolution and Growth document, which establishes a plan to take the industry through to 2020, includes six recommendations for provincial and federal governments on how they can support the biofuel sector. Scott Thurlow, CRFA president, says: 'These are the pivot points that we think will be important for…
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Pacific Ethanol is reopening its shuttered California plant as demand for ethanol is increasing. Based on strengthening demand for biofuel, Pacific Ethanol intends to reopen a plant in Madera, California, after it stopped production for five years. The plant has an annual ethanol production capacity of 40 million gallons and is expected to begin production this spring. A number of the company's…
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The Turku region of Finland is investing over $350 million (€253 million) in a plant that will run mainly on local wood chips. TSE, the Turku region's energy consortium, will replace a 50-year-old coal plant in Naantali with a multi-fuel facility, fuelled by 100% biomass and waste. The facility is expected to burn between 915,000 and 1.57 million cubic yards per year of chips. Construction…
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The DuPont cellulosic ethanol facility, one of the first and largest commercial-scale cellulosic biorefineries in the world, will begin ethanol production later this year. It is expected to produce 30 million gallons of biofuel per year from corn stover. DuPont will contract from 450 to 600 local farmers to gather, store and deliver over 375,000 dry tonnes of stover per year into the Nevada…
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The Scoular Company and Vireol Bio-Industries are in partnership to run the Hopewell facility, in Virginia. Scoular will procure corn, operate the grain facility and market the distiller's grain. The company, who has already started to buy corn and receive contracts, began leasing the grain facility in Hopewell last August, before Vireol confirmed that the plant would open in Hopewell. Hopewell…
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UN IPCC report findings confirm that while bioenergy has a significant role to play in society and although more research is needed, existing uncertainties should not prevent the pursuance of beneficial bioenergy options. The published IPCC report, 'Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment', released as part of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, comes as the EU considers the…
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IncBio has delivered an 8,000MT per year biodiesel plant to Biokast Energy S.A., to be installed in Tunis, Tunisia. The Portuguese engineering company uses its ultrasonic reactors to produce EN14214 biodiesel from used cooking oil, collected from restaurants in Tunis. Construction of the transesterification plant is fully built, before shipping over to Tunis and requires minimal assembly on site,…
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Lignol Energy Corporation (LEC) and M Energy Co., Ltd. (M Energy) have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining their collaboration on restarting LEC's 140 million litre per year biodiesel plant in Darwin, Australia. The project will incorporate M Energy's proprietary pre-treatment technology and if successful, will provide enough capital for the Darwin project and an…
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