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Flint Hills Resources is preparing for the launch of its Duonix plant in Nebraska, US, is preparing to run pre-commissioning tests.
The 50 million gpy former Beatrice Biodiesel-facility is being retrofitted for multi-feedstock production using Benefuel’s catalytic process for refining high free-fatty-acid feedstock.
This is the first time the Benefuel technology will be used on this scale.…
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The Brazilian special committee on national development has approved a senate bill outlining the plan to increase the biodiesel blend in the nation’s fuel supply.
The new bill mandates that 7% of biodiesel be blended into diesel fuel, and the amount is set to rise to 10% within three years.
Calls have been made to further increase the blend to 15% if tests with the newly-set blending levels…
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Joule, a liquid fuels from recycled CO2 solutions provider, and Red Rock Biofuels, a developer of renewable jet and diesel fuel biorefineries, intend to merge.
The transaction is expected to close during the in the next month.
Red Rock Biofuels uses Fischer-Tropsch technology to convert forest and sawmill biomass residues into jet fuel and diesel products.
The company is set to begin construction…
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HSBC has pledged to commit $1 billion (€937m) to a green bond portfolio which will invest in high quality liquid assets in the form of green, social, or sustainability bonds.
These bonds will be aligned with the Green Bond Principles and will be used to fund projects in sectors such as clean transportation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate change adaption, as well as SME…
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Construction of a long-awaited Pentland Bio-Energy bioethanol plant in northeastern Australia could finally be set to begin.
The plant project, to be located on a 66,152 hectare plot in Pentland, Queensland, has been in development since 2004 but now it could at long last see building begin in June 2016.
With commissioning scheduled for June 2018, planned production at the facility is expected to…
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Nearly 100 biodiesel leaders from across the US are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to reinstate the biodiesel tax incentive.
The $1-per-gallon incentive expired on 31 December, 2014, marking the fourth time in six years the US Congress has allowed it to lapse.
The continued uncertainty surrounding the incentive has severely stymied investment and growth in the industry, claims the National…
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Hero BX, a US biodiesel producer, has acquired the assets of the former Veros Energy biodiesel refinery in Moundville, Alabama.
The plant will operate under the name Hero BX Alabama.
‘We are excited to be expanding into Alabama. The preliminary renewable fuel standard (RFS) volumes are growing and as they do, the Moundville facilities will too,’ says Hero BX chairman and CEO Samuel…
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In the US, Green Plains has acquired an ethanol production facility located in Hopewell, Virginia, from FutureFuels.
Operating at full capacity, Green Plains says the dry mill ethanol plant will increase its annual production capacity by approximately 60 million gallons to nearly 1.1 billion gallons per year.
'We are confident in our ability to significantly improve the plant's production…
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The European Union is on track towards meeting and overachieving its 2020 target for reducing greenhouse emissions (GHGs) by 20%, according to a report published by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
The Trends and projections in Europe 2015 report reveals that GHGs in Europe decreased by 23% between 1990 and 2014 and reached the lowest levels on record. Latest projections by Member States…
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Following the acquisition of biotechnology company Virdia last year, Stora Enso is building a demonstration and market development plant at Raceland, Louisiana, US.
The new plant will become the Stora Enso Biomaterials divisions' US headquarters. It uses technology developed by Virdia and enables cellulosic biomass, such as wood or agricultural waste, to be converted into highly refined…
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The Brazilian government wants to increase the share of biodiesel in mineral diesel in order to hit the country’s greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Ricardo Dornelles, the head of the Energy Ministry’s biofuels department, made the announcement while talking at the International Biodiesel Conference in Sao Paulo.
The measure is part of the proposals Brazil's intends to put forth at the…
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The German Bioethanol Industry Association (BDBe) has published updated versions of the two European Directives 2009/28/EC 'Renewable Energies' and 98/70/EC 'Fuel Quality' in German and English.
The Directive 2015/1513/EU was adopted by the EU Council of Minsters on 13 July this year to amend these directives. The amending directive was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ…
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French biofuels producer Avril has opened a 100,000 tpy biodiesel plant to meet the higher blending levels issued by the French government.
The new plant, located at Sete on France’s Mediterranean coast, will raise the company’s biodiesel production capacity to 1.7 million tonnes.
Earlier in 2013 Avril shut down its two northern France facilities in the aftermath of the…
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DuPont has celebrated the opening of its cellulosic biofuel facility in Nevada, Iowa, US with a ceremony attended by the state's governor Terry Brandstad and other dignitaries.
With the capacity to produce 30 mgy of clean fuel that offers a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petrol, this biorefinery is the world's largest cellulosic ethanol plant.
The raw material used to…
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A recent national US survey shows that biodiesel is an increasingly popular alternative fuel and that support for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is on the rise, according to the National Biodiesel Board (NBB).
With just one month until the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) releases the final RFS rule, 80% of voters support a renewable fuel standard, with 10% opposing it and the rest…
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In India, the government of the state of Punjab has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a consortium of Beta Renewables, Novozymes, and CVC India Infrastructure to set up a bioethanol refinery in the state.
The INR9.5 billion (€131 million) facility is expected to begin operation in 2017, and it is projected to make Punjab the Indian state leader in the biorefinery…
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