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May 6, 2011
NREL studies promising eucalyptus lines for biofuels
Eucalyptus has been found to be a promising option as a biomass feedstock for the production of liquid fuel, as researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DoE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have identified a tree that releases more than twice the usual amount of sugar. The trees being studied by NREL are lignin-modified eucalyptus lines that have been developed for research by…
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May 9, 2011
Rentech to build $500m plant for bio-jet fuel
In Canada, renewable energy producer Rentech is looking to develop a biomass plant in White River, Ontario that will produce jet fuel and create 400 fulltime jobs. 'This will be the largest renewable clean jet fuel programme in the world,' says the CEO of RenTech Hunt Ramsbottom. 'This will be the first of its kind where the province, the federal government, local communities and a private…
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May 9, 2011
NBPOL and Wilmar collaborate to bring segregated certified palm oil to Europe
Papua New Guinea-headquartered New Britain Palm Oil (NBPOL), a large-scale integrated industrial producer of sustainable palm oil in Australasia, and agribusiness group Wilmar International have agreed to set up an integrated supply chain and joint marketing agreement to supply Europe with fully traceable and segregated sustainable palm oil from NBPOL's Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)…
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May 9, 2011
Greenergy turns waste sausage rolls into biodiesel
Privately owned company Greenergy is to start reducing the levels of waste sent to landfill and has partnered with waste food recycling company Brocklesby to produce biodiesel from food leftovers. In a bid to reduce the environmental impact of the fuel that the company produces, while also creating a new alternative source of fuel, the joint venture will covert edible oils and unsalable food into…
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May 10, 2011
USDA and DoE grant $47m in R&D funding
The 5 May 2011 saw the US Department of Energy (DoE) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) expose a new $47 million (€32.7 million) grant programme. The new R&D grants, which are part of the Obama Administration's aim to address the rising costs of fuel, will support the generation of energy from biomass. The funding will help finance a total of eight projects dedicated to the…
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May 10, 2011
Core BioFuel signs MoU with energy project developer
Canada-based Core BioFuel, a biofuels firm dedicated to the commercialisation of a biomass-to-fuel production process, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an un-named energy project developer. The MoU will see the development of four Core-licensed biorefineries in the Western Hemisphere, which will utilise Core's patent-pending wood-to-fuel technology for a preliminary four-year…
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Apr 14, 2011
Aventine opens 110mgy ethanol plant
In Mount Vernon, Indiana, US, ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy's ethanol plant was officially opened on 6 April 2011. The news comes after construction came to an end when Aventine became bankrupt. However it recovered in March 2010 and construction on the Mount Vernon facility commenced. Building work on the project finished in November 2010 and operations began on 1 December 2010.…
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Apr 14, 2011
USDA aims to increase flex-fuel pumps
'Renewable energy systems', as defined in the Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP), will now also include flexible fuel pumps, which the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will fund the installation of. The new rule, which was announced by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on 8 April 2011, is expected to encourage more installations of these 'blender pumps', which in turn will provide…
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Apr 14, 2011
USDA supports sustainable projects
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to award bioenergy and biobased products with research grants in order to further the development of sustainable projects. After the selection process, the chosen projects will implement sustainable regional systems for the production of biofuels. The projects to receive the grant aree based in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia,…
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Apr 14, 2011
Heaven Petroleum invests in jatropha
In Peru, biodiesel producer Heaven Petroleum Operators SAC is to invest $186 million (€130 million) in jatropha cultivation. Heaven Petroleum's subsidiary Bio Agro Heaven del Sur SAC will develop the project, which will take place on 50,000 hectares of land in Ica region. The jatropha grown under the project will then be used in the production of biodiesel at the company's biodiesel plant in…
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Apr 14, 2011
Pannonia's ethanol plant to be completed by Q1 2012
In Dunaföldvár, Hungary, a US-Irish collaboration is due to finish the construction of its ethanol production facility by 1 March 2012. Costing $200 million (€139 million) to build, the plant is being developed by Pannonia Ethanol, a joint venture between Minnesota, US-based Fagen and Irish company Europe Ethanol. Upon completion, the plant will manufacture 240 million litres of…
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Apr 19, 2011
GE supplies biogas engines at Chinese ethanol plant
In a bid to encourage the use of biogas across China, Austria's GE Energy is to supply its Jenbacher biogas engine technology to power China's largest ethanol production plant, which is currently under construction in the city of Nan Yang, Henan Province. Owned and operated by Henan Tianguan Group, the new ethanol plant will produce 500,000m3 of biogas a day, from organic material such as…
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Apr 20, 2011
The GHG-slashing potential of jatropha
The EU's goal of slashing greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 35% can be met through utilising jatropha, according to sustainability consultants Partners for Innovation and its independent report. Designed by the Jatropha Alliance and Sun Biofuels, the study highlights how Sun Biofuels Mozambique could save 39% of GHGs compared to fossil fuels if the jatropha-derived biodiesel was produced in the UK. The…
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Apr 20, 2011
Cobalt and American Process partner for biobutanol
In the US, renewable fuels company Cobalt Technologies and biorefinery technology firm American Process (API) have partnered to build an industrial-scale cellulosic biorefinery for the production of biobutanol. In addition, the two companies have also agreed to jointly market a GreenPower+ Biobutanol solution that will convert biomass into power. GreenPower+ Biobutanol technology converts part of…
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Apr 20, 2011
Argentina's biodiesel industry set to grow
In Argentina, 26% of the nations soya crop was used for the production of biodiesel, according to a study by the Consorcios Regionales de Experimentacion Agricola (CREA). Argentina manufactured 2.6 million tonnes of biodiesel last year and as a result consumed 14 million tonnes of the total 55 million tonnes of soya cultivated. In 2010 Argentina sold 1.1 million tonnes of its biodiesel…
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Apr 20, 2011
Tidewater Biodiesel to produce biodiesel in Virginia
In the US, Tidewater Biodiesel is one step closer towards building its biodiesel plant in the state of Virginia. The company has been granted planning approval from the local commission. Construction can now get underway once the final approval is given by Chesapeake's city council. Upon completion, scheduled for 2012, the facility will produce 10 million gallons a year of biodiesel from waste…
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