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Iowa's Senate unanimously approved a bill to extend tax credits for renewable fuels. After achieving a 48-0 decision yesterday, the bill will now move to the House. If passed, the bill will extend all renewable fuel tax credits in Iowa until 2020, increase the tax credit for E15 and add advanced biofuel biobutanol to the state's renewable fuels. An amendment to the bill also extends tax credits…
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Addax BioEnergy's plant, which processes ethanol from sugarcane and is the first of its kind in Africa, is due to start production soon. Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma visited the Addax BioEnergy plant on Saturday in the run up to its start date. The plant will produce about 85,000m3 of ethanol and approximately 100,000 MWh of renewable power per annum. The sugarcane estate is…
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Z Energy has revealed plans to build a $21 million (€15 million) domestic biodiesel plant that will produce fuel from inedible tallow feedstock. Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown welcomes the announcement, as it signals a reduction in the reliance on fossil fuels and will help New Zealand address climate change concerns. The Wellington-based company hopes to produce 20 million litres of…
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Zeeland Farm Services, Michigan's largest soybean processor, is set to expand an existing site in Gratiot County. The site, which is more than 435 acres, was once owned by Liberty Renewable Fuels LLC who hoped the purchase would become the state's largest corn ethanol processing plant. ZFS Ithaca LLC will complete the buildings and move on to the site, which was abandoned in 2008 by Liberty…
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Construction work has begun on a $10 million (€7.2 million) ethanol plant in Coleambally, Australia, with production expected to begin next year. Eagle Energy, a group of local farming families, is going to be in control of the development of the plant. Project Manager Troy Shields says the plant will initially process 15,000 tonnes of locally sourced wheat and corn. Shields comments: 'The…
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A biofuels production fund will receive $3 million (€2.2 million) over the next two years that could help Virginia’s Hopewell plant. The states’ governor Terry McAuliffe, the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have included provisions to earmark $3 million in competing budget plans. Delegate Riley Ingram sponsored successful legislation that made changes to the biofuels…
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PTT and Mitr Phol Group are teaming up to build a plant designed to produce Gasohol E85, a type of biofuel. On 3 April, the company signed a joint venture agreement with Thailand's largest sugar manufacturer to construct a plant in the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum, Thailand. Ethanol collected as a by-product of the sugar produced at the Mitr Phol plant in the region will be used to make…
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CRIBE is delivering an investment of up to $1.5 million (€1 million) to Ensyn Technologies to expand their Renfrew facility. Ensyn intends to dedicate the facility's use to biofuels and increase its production capacity. By enhancing their existing facility in Renfrew, Ensyn will be able to deliver their petroleum-replacement liquid biofuel produced from forest residues to heating oil…
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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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A team of researchers have published the first study to focus on multiple genes that control steps in the pathway for seed oil production in oilseed crops. The researchers from Rothamsted Research have found that 'stacking' the right combination of genes can have an additive effect on seed oil content and oil yield. The research was carried out using the model oilseed plant Arabidopsis thaliana,…
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GeoSynFuels, LLC (GSF) has announced its acquisition of a cellulosic ethanol demonstration facility formerly owned and operated by the Blue Sugars Corporation. The demonstration facility, in Upton, Wyoming, which has a capacity of 50 tonnes per day, was originally built in 2007 for the enzymatic conversion of wood feedstocks to ethanol. In 2011, the facility was converted to allow the processing…
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IncBio has recently secured an agreement to supply a 55,000 MT/year transesterification plant, for an undisclosed client in South America. The plant will produce biodiesel from locally produced palm oil and ion exchange resin towers for purification, using the Portuguese engineering company's technology. José Marques, CEO of IncBio says: 'Using our multi-feedstock technology, industrial…
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Aurora Algae is expanding its south Texas testing facility with four one-acre algae cultivation ponds and a harvesting system for potential commercial production. Greg Bafalis, CEO of Aurora Algae, says: 'We have successfully tested our algae cultivation system in countries around the world, including Australia, India, Italy, Mexico and multiple locations in the United States. From our initial…
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