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A total of 8,900 biogas plants will be built in 2009 generating 2,700 megawatts (MW) of electricity worldwide.
Globally, Asia is leading with 34% of total capacity and Europe with 26%, followed by NAFTA and others, a survey conducted by Helmut Kaiser Consultancy in November says.
Biogas from by-products and combinations is the most efficient form of renewable energy and therefore not affected…
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New Zealand will repeal a requirement for biofuel blends and implement tax breaks on fuels derived from proven sustainable sources instead.
The fuel sale directive, rising to 2.5% of annual sales by 2012, will be revoked under legislation to be voted on later this week, Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee says.
Retailers will continue to sell blended products and the government will prepare tax…
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Malaysia’s transport and industrial sectors will run mandatorily on biodiesel from January 2010, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui has announced.
From February 2009, government vehicles will start using biodiesel with the Envo Diesel Esther (B5) brand, a blend of 5% palm oil and 95% diesel.
‘We expect that by 2010 an estimated 500,000 tonnes of…
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Chicago, US-based biofuel group Coskata is searching for a partner to set up a multi-million-dollar ethanol conversion plant in Victoria, Australia, capable of producing up to 200 million litres of the fuel a year for use in cars.
The company is looking for sources of waste material in Australia that it could feed into the process. This includes food and garden scraps gathered from household…
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Clean technologies investment company Ludgate Environmental Fund has invested €3 million into agri.capital, a specialist developer, owner and operator of biogas plants in Germany.
The investment has been structured as 8% preferred stock with detachable warrants and is part of a €10 million funding round into agri.capital with Valiance Special Situations Fund investing alongside…
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Japan Airlines (JAL) will be the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using camelina-based biofuel, planned for 30 January 2009 at Haneda Airport, Tokyo.
A blend of 50% biofuel and 50% traditional Jet-A jet (kerosene) fuel will be tested in one of the four Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines of a JAL-owned Boeing 747-300 aircraft.
The biofuel component to be used will be a mixture of…
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The Canadian province of Alberta will implement renewable fuel standards as part of a provincial energy strategy.
Beginning in 2010 Alberta will require regular fuel to contain 5% ethanol, and diesel to contain 2% renewable diesel. The blending requirements are in line with federal standards to reduce carbon emissions.
The province has set aside CA$239 million (€140 million) to support the…
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food for Progress programme has funded a biodiesel facility in Guatemala.
The Biodiesel Mazat Agui facility in the country’s coastal region of Escuintla began operations this month.
The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University was also involved in establishing the cooperative biodiesel plant, which will use…
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New York-headquartered clean technology development company GreenShift has received a $38 million (€26 million) investment to produce biodiesel from corn oil extracted from ethanol plants.
GreenShift will receive the investment in a new GreenShift joint venture subsidiary that will use the proceeds to build 12 corn oil extraction facilities and to expand the capacity of GreenShift's…
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Escalating demand for E10 fuel in Jamaica has driven plans to expand the market.
‘We intend to have at least some Petcom stations providing up to E85 in the coming year,’ Ministry of Energy Portfolio Minister Clive Mullings says.
Demand for E10 ethanol blended petrol has nearly tripled the projected 3,000 barrels, with calls for 8,000 barrels a week.
The market's response to the fuel…
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The Oiltanking Vitória terminal in Brazil has loaded 5,000 m3 cargo of neutral grade ethanol into its first vessel, Fairchem Unicorn.
Loading was conducted in close cooperation with representatives of LASA, Bauche-Energy and SGS.
Oiltanking Vitória functions as a distribution and export hub for cargos moving through Brazil, the world’s leading and most competitive ethanol market. The…
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France is preparing a national plan for renewable energy, which has set aside any assessment of the EU's biofuels draft directive to generate a 10% share of biofuels in transport by 2020.
France's Environment and Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo offered the national plan for renewable energies on 17 November.
The plan aims to bring the share of renewables in the energy mix by 2020 to…
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Germany's sugar farmers are targeting sales to the bioethanol industry to shift a large crop this season.
Germany is forecast to produce 3.6 million tonnes of refined sugar from its 2008/09 crop, in excess of the country's European Union sugar production quota of 2.7 million tonnes, which has been cut as part of EU reforms to curb farming subsidies.
The bioethanol market is a growing…
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Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras expects to export 605 million litres of ethanol in 2008.
Petrobras downstream director Paulo Roberto Costa says that 505 million litres will be shipped to the US, with the remaining 100 million litres sailing to Japan.
Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of ethanol and second largest producer after the US.
The country’s large sugarcane market…
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US Green Energy Technology (GET) and the Philippines-based biotechnology firm Secura International (SIC) have signed an agreement to construct a $30 million (€23.7 million) biodiesel plant using malunggay oil as feedstock.
Malunggay is a versatile plant that can grow anywhere, except in rice-growing, flooded areas. It is suitable for rainfall of less than 1,000 millimeters a year and needs…
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Malaysia’s government has approved 91 biodiesel production licences with a total capacity of 10.2 million tonnes of biodiesel.
Deputy minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities senator A. Kohilan Pillay says that to further promote the use of renewable and sustainable forms of energy on 30 October the government approved the mandatory blending of 5% palm methyl ester with petroleum…
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