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A major renewable energy plant in Jozini, KwaZulu-Natal, which has been in planning for seven years, is set to start preliminary work in September.
Silvapen Group, the South African – Brazilian company, plans to build the proposed R1.2 billion (€80 million) sugar-to-ethanol distillery using Brazilian technology.
The distillery, which is set on 15,000 ha of land, in the middle of a…
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Malaysia, the second largest palm oil producer after Indonesia, hopes to enhance biofuel consumption to help prices of palm oil.
700,000 tonnes of methyl ester will be used annually, if plans to apply the B7 programme next year go ahead.
This July will see the current B5 programme extended nationwide. The current version, which consists of a 5% palm methyl ester and 95% fossil diesel blend, will…
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The Indonesian government is planning to propose a new provision that will fix biofuel prices for an imperative biofuel blending programme.
The programme, which is expected to come into effect in 2015, is being established in a bid to entice more producers to provide biofuel for the domestic marketplace.
Dadan Kusdiana, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry director for bioenergy, explains…
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White Energy's plant is once again producing ethanol, after nine months out of action last year following a harsh drought.
The ethanol plant is now functioning and looking to increase in size for future production.
'We have changed management teams, and the new team better understands that the production of ethanol is a biological process rather than a mechanical process,' Don Gales, White Energy…
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The 85% ethanol blend is now cropping up in areas outside of the Midwestern states, where it first appeared.
Despite Minnesota remaining the largest state to provide E85 at its pumps, the number of Midwest stations selling E85 dropped to 36% last year, down from 54% in 2007.
The number of E85 stations, which stood at 1,229 in 2007, more than doubled last year to 2,625, according to the US Energy…
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Universal Robina Corp will initiate the start-up of a new ethanol plant in May.
The Philippine company had initially planned for production at the $35 million (€25 million) plant to begin in March, but it has since been pushed back by two months.
The ethanol plant, which is expected to produce 30 million litres of ethanol a year, will be placed on the company’s sugar facility at…
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing almost $60 million (€43 million) in the production of advanced biofuels.
The Advanced Biofuel Payment Programme, established in the 2008 Farm Bill and again supported in the recently signed 2014 Farm Bill, is delivering the funding.
The money will be made in payments to 195 advanced biofuel producers. The eligibility of producers…
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A North Dakota State University (NDSU) professor and project developers are embarking on a project to cultivate industrial beets to use in ethanol production.
The team are now on the hunt for growers to support and get their plan for production running.
Farmer Claude Richard believes: 'If it's economical to make ethanol out of it, it's going to cut down on oil consumption'.
Dave Ripplinger, the…
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China New Energy (CNE), the bioenergy engineering and technology firm, has secured a contract to build a biorefinery for Ubon Bio Ethanol in Thailand.
CNE hopes to begin work on the new project – worth RMB100m (€12 million) - in late 2014, and reach completion by 2016.
The existing facility, commissioned by Ubon Bio Ethanol, is a first-generation biorefinery, converting cassava…
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A new method for recognising and assessing optimum algae locations is set to boost biofuel production.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Sapphire Energy commissioned the article: 'Siting Algae Cultivation Facilities for Biofuel Production in the United States: Trade-Offs between Growth Rate, Site Constructability, Water Availability, and Infrastructure', in the journal Environmental…
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A record-breaking over 190 delegates have registered for the StocExpo 2014 conference. Those heading to the event, which takes place from 18 to 20 March 2014 at Ahoy, Rotterdam, include major decision makers from Shell, BP, Vopak, Stolthaven, Vesta Terminals, Saudi Aramco as well as the Federation of European Tank Storage Associations.
Attendees registered for the three day conference will enjoy…
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Indonesia's Pertamina is set to offer a third tender to buy palm oil for biodiesel blending, before the end of April.
In August 2013, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil introduced a new regulation, targeting the increased burning of palm-based biodiesel. The move indicates the nation’s desire to up its alternative fuel usage, while cutting its oil import bill in the…
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Targray, a North American biofuel supplier, has announced a new inventory location for biodiesel in Bakersfield, California, US.
Service for B99 and B100 began in mid-February 2014. Targray will supply biodiesel to its growing customer base in California using the terminal's 24/7 truck rack.
'Targray has been a major supplier of biodiesel by railcar to the California market. We are pleased to…
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The recent free trade agreement between Australia and Korea has strengthened the proposal for a $90 million (€65 million) ethanol plant to be constructed in New South Wales, Australia.
Located in a 400km area of Deniliquin, the project is awaiting signature from Korean investors.
The plant, which will produce fuel and by-products from grain, will have the capacity to produce 110,000 kl of…
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Dreyfus Unit is one of several companies thought to be sending a shipment of US ethanol to Brazil, to aid increase in demand, say several parties with knowledge of the shipment.
3.56 million gallons of ethanol are scheduled to be delivered this week by the tanker Nordisle, stopping at ports Miramar, Itaqui and Suape.
Brazil is the world's second-largest producer of ethanol, and its supply is…
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