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In the US, Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) and Michigan State University Extension (MSUE) will partner for the cultivation of energy crops.
Between them, DTW and another airport operated by the Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA), Willow Run, have around 1,700 acres of land suitable for growing energy crops.
MSUE is currently growing canola and oriental mustard seed on 3 acres of WCAA land. These…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released new specifications for a label that will be displayed at all fuel pumps dispensing petrol blended with 15% ethanol (E15).
The new orange and black label will include information about which vehicles can use E15. It will also discourage the use of E15 in cars manufactured before 2011, motorbikes and boats, as well as in petrol-powered tools…
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Between 2005 and 2015 the worldwide market value of biodiesel is expected to increase by 26%, reaching $62 million (€43.3 million) in 2015. This is according to a report released from market research reports database companiesandmarkets.com.
In 2009, a total of 14.7 billion gallons of biodiesel were produced. The report, entitled Biodiesel and Feedstocks: A Global Market Outlook, predicts…
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A revised version of the ASTM D7566-11, Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons, was approved on 1 July 2011.
The new specification means that up to 50% renewable fuels can now be blended with traditional fossil jet fuel. These renewable fuel components are derived from vegetable oil-containing feedstocks, including algae, camelina and jatropha, or tallow. The…
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Thomson Airways will become the UK's first airline to fly passengers on a plane powered by biofuels.
The flight will take off from Birmingham airport before landing in Palma, Majorca, on 28 July 2011. Weekly flights of the same kind will then follow the same route from September.
It is thought Thomson Airways' biofuel-powered flights between Birmingham and Palma will take place during the summer…
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In move that will hopefully reduce the cost of fuel by 10%, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, will import ethanol from Brazil.
In addition to lower fuel prices, the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) is keen to encourage the use of ethanol in order to reduce the region's reliance on fossil fuels within the transport sector.
With this push towards the use of biofuels come guidelines and the…
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In Brazil, ethanol producers cannot meet the demand from the number of flex-fuel vehicles on Brazilian roads.
The nation has suffered two low sugarcane harvests throughout 2010 and 2011 and this was attributed to excessive rainfall. As a result, the mandatory percentage of ethanol to be blended with fossil petrol was lowered.
The Brazilian government then declared an ethanol shortage, blaming the…
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In Accra, Ghana, a 'Next-Generation Urban Sanitation Facility' is being developed at Columbia University, US, after receiving a $1.5 million (€1.06 million) grant from Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Upon completion the facility, which has not yet broken ground, will produce biodiesel and methane from faecal sludge.
Kartik Chandran, a professor at the university, will…
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Medford, Massachusetts, US-based Agrivida, a company dedicated to finding novel crop varieties for the production of biofuels, has reportedly raised $2 million (€1.4 million) of a planned $8 million round of equity funding.
The company collaborated with agribusiness firm Syngenta Ventures back in December 2010 to develop new corn and switchgrass strains that can be used for the production of…
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In the Philippines, the country's largest ethanol plant could restart production.
According to Rosemarie Gumera, manager of policy and planning at the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), the San Carlos Bioenergy plant, located in Negros Occidental, looks set to reopen as the price of locally produced sugarcane continues to fall.
San Carlos Bioenergy stopped making ethanol between 2010 and…
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In Hopkins, Missouri, US, the nation's fourth largest ethanol producer Green Plains Renewable Energy has acquired 2 million bushels of federally-licensed grain storage.
The acquisition of the grain storage, which was previously owned by Horizon Grain and GS Grain, was completed through the company's wholly owned subsidiary Green Plains Grain Company.
The grain elevator is located approximately 45…
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In Canada, renewable energy company Suncor Energy's St. Clair ethanol plant reached a production milestone in May 2011, when it produced 1 billion litres of the biofuel.
Operations at the St. Clair first started in June 2006 and it had an annual production capacity of 200 million litres. The facility then underwent an expansion project, which was completed in February 2011 and saw the plant's…
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In Mozambique, a total of 31 biofuel projects have been announced since 2007, according to figures from the nation's Centre of Agricultural Promotion (Cepagri). These projects are reported to span across 324,000 hectares.
It was not disclosed how much has been invested in these 31 developments.In recent years the government has begun supporting biofuels in order to promote a domestic biofuel…
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In the US, farmer-owned cooperative Ag Processing (AGP) is to acquire a defunct biodiesel plant located in Algona, Iowa.
According to the company's CEO Marty Reagan, the plant is scheduled to resume operations by 1 September 2011 and will create 31 jobs. He said AGP agreed to buy the facility because it will support its soyabean processing and biodiesel operations.
Terms of deal were not…
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In the US, biodiesel producer Mission NewEnergy has supplied its first batch of biofuel under its most recent contract – a $100 million (€70.6 million) deal to manufacture and deliver its product to a key distributor of refined oil products.
The new contract was signed in May 2011 and, subject to a preliminary three-month probation period, will see Mission manufacturer and deliver…
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A new company has been created in the US that will aid producers and buyers of biodiesel in buying and selling the fuel.
Biodiesel consultancy firm Lee Enterprises Consulting will manage Diesels and the company's owner Wayne Lee says the new company is a 'revolutionary step in the biodiesel industry'.
He says: 'Diesels, LLC was formed by four individuals with lots of experience in the biodiesel…
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