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The global biofuels market is set to grow by an average of 12.3% a year between 2007 and 2017, according to a report by industry research specialists RNCOS.
Global ethanol and biodiesel production will grow at 6.04% and 5% a year respectively between 2008 and 2019.
In the near future, the increase in biofuel production will largely be driven by ethanol from Brazil and the US, which pledged to…
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Irish green energy specialist Greenfield Project Management plans to produce bioethanol from sugar beets grown in Chernobyl soil too radioactive for food crops.
Despite official warnings, many local people continue to grow food in the soil around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The radiation concentrates into roots and stalks which, after harvesting, are ploughed back into the soil,…
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All seven bioethanol plants US oil refiner Valero purchased on the bankruptcy of VeraSun are now running at capacity and making a profit.
Valero bought the plants in March after VeraSun Energy was bankrupted by contracts locking the producer into paying above market price for corn. Four of the plants remained operating throughout the bankruptcy. Two were restarted by Valero. The seventh, a…
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Massachusetts-based startup Joule Biotechnologies has unveiled a revolutionary new process for converting carbon dioxide and sunlight to transportation fuel without the use of biomass.
The company’s patent-pending so-called Helioculture process utilises genetically-engineered photosynthetic organisms: it requires no agricultural land or fresh water and is capable of producing more than…
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Plantation Energy, Australia’s largest manufacturer and exporter of wood pellets, has signed a three-year AUD 60 million (€34 million) supply agreement with Essent Trading, an international merchant energy trading company based in Switzerland.
The agreement between Plantation Energy and Essent Trading comes only days after the company announced its first export deal, with Electrabel, a…
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Biomass-fuelled power plant developer Prenergy’s proposals for a 350MW wood-burning plant in Port Talbot, Wales, have been granted a draft permit by the UK’s Environment Agency.
The £400 million (€465 million) plant received provisional planning permission based on the project receiving this environmental permit.
Progression of the plant plans has hit a hurdle, however, with Neath Port…
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An explosion shook Columbus Foods’ biodiesel plant in Chicago, US, on 17 July, injuring two people.
The injured victims, a truck driver and a plant worker, were taken to hospital for treatment. Other workers at the plant exposed to chemicals that rained on them after the blast were reportedly decontaminated.
Police and fire investigators blamed the explosion to the mixture of wrong chemicals…
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A company in the central east African country of Tanzania is planning to venture into the production of biogas from waste from the sisal plant, following the successful piloting of the project at Hale Sisal Estate in
Korogwe District.
Segera Estates, which owns three sisal estates in the region and another in the Coast Region, is currently looking for partners to develop the biogas production…
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Biofuel made from paddy rice is now being sold at a petrol station pump in Niigata, Japan.
The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations Zennoh (JA Zennoh) began sales of the biofuel, a mixture of petrol and bioethanol made from rice for animal feed, on 17 July.
An annual ethanol production of about 1,000 kilolitres is expected from some 2,250 tonnes of brown rice grown in…
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Indian Railways is planning to introduce biodiesel and compressed natural gas (CNG) as locomotive fuels in an attempt to cut down on pollution says.
Currently, the railways uses diesel and electricity, which is an indirect pollutant as a bulk of the country’s power capacity is coal-fired.
‘Successful trials have been carried out by using 10% blend of biodiesel on trains,’ minister of…
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Just weeks after a predicted bust, UK-based energy crop developer D1 Oils has reached a conditional agreement with BP to acquire BP's 50% interest in D1-BP Fuel Crops, its joint venture with BP for the planting of jatropha.
D1 will thereby to take back sole ownership the global planting assets and interests of the joint venture.
In June the company announced it had failed to attract a…
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Texas, US-based Terrabon is working on a renewable green petrol fuel, identical to ordinary petroleum-based fuel, which can be made from organic material like cornstalks.
Terrabon has been testing a technology known as MixAlco. Developed by scientists at Texas A&M University, it uses an acid fermentation process that can convert biomass into chemicals that can be further processed into…
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While many ethanol producers are going down, California-headquartered GreenHouse Energy is going bottoms-up.
The producer is teaming-up with Karl Strauss Brewing Company to convert spent beer yeast into ethanol fuel.
Together, the two companies and the state are part of the GreenHouse Developmental Pilot Program, a distribution model being introduced first in Southern California.
Within the…
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For the year ended 30 April 2009 Canadian cellulosic ethanol developer Lignol made a loss of $6.2 million (€4.4 million) compared to a loss of $4.6 million in fiscal 2008.
The company has spent more on research and development attributed to the construction and start-up of operations of the company’s new fully integrated pilot plant and expansion of research and lignin product development…
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In the US a lawsuit to clean up 75,000 gallons of ethanol that leaked following a train derailment in Rockford, Illinois, on 19 June has found a railway company responsible.
Canadian National Railway and its subsidiary Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad, will be required by Illinois to perform the environmental cleanup of ethanol in surrounding soil and nearby waterways.
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It’s been 22 years since crime-fighting Robocop cleaned up the dirty Detroit streets. Now a new ‘greener’ robot has entered the scene.
A steam-powered, robot designed for the Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense, has been programmed to fuel itself on biomass.
Maryland-based Robotic Technology’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) can find, ingest, and…
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