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At the end of March it was reported that Italian customs authorities seized 10,000 tonnes of illegal biodiesel that is thought to have originated from the US where it benefitted from US subsidies illegal in Europe.
Italian judge Giudice per le Indagini Preliminari has now prolonged this temporary confiscation of the biodiesel load, a decision that is backed fully by the EBB. The official customs…
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US-based ethanol producer Green Plains Renewable Energy is set to purchase numerous agribusiness companies located in west Tennessee, US.
These include five grain elevators situated in Como, Dyer, Kenton, Trenton, and Union City, Tennessee, and have the capacity to store 11.7 million bushels. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Green Plains Renewable Energy, Green Plains Grain Company TN, will be the…
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Houston-based energy project development player Energy Allied International and The Seawater Foundation and Global Seawater have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly develop the world’s first commercial-scale seawater-based biofuels project in Egypt.
The formed company New Nile will produce tens of millions of litres of second generation biofuels on a 50,000 hectare project…
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US-based ethanol producer Poet has plans to produce 3.5 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year by 2022.
Following successful technology and feedstock development the company will break ground on its first cellulosic ethanol plant Emmetsburg, Iowa, later this year.
The 3.5 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol will come from three primary sources: 1 billion gallons from adding the…
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In the US the federal tax credit for ethanol is set to expire on 31 December. Now producers look to have a new lease of life following the introduction of a bill on 20 April to extend the ethanol credit for five years.
The extension will remain at the current level of $0.45 (€0.33) per gallon. This is a companion bill to HR 4940, the Renewable Fuels Reinvestment Act, introduced on 25 March in…
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It is now only two weeks to go until the Bioenergy International expo & conference Europe 2010 kicks off, with limited place left on the plant tour on 4 May 2010 – included in the price of the conference pass.
The tour will be held at Preol’s state-of-the-art biodiesel plant in the industrial region of Lovosice.
Companies that have already registered for the event include: Tanquid,…
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Sustainable fuel manufactured from soyabeans leaves the atmosphere worse-off than conventional fossil fuels by releasing a higher amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), a report finds.
According to the European report commissioned in Brussels for the European Commission, released under Freedom of Information rules, some biofuels can result in four times as much CO2 being emitted into the atmosphere…
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In Dundarrach, North Carolina, US, the $100 million (€75 million) Hoke Country ethanol plant is due to start producing its first batch of ethanol on Saturday 1 May.
Ethanol producer Clean Burn Fuels’ plant, which was originally expected to begin production in January this year, faced various construction delays. Rescheduled for April, production had to be set back again due to the bad…
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Following the resignation of the Czech Minister of the Environment Jan Dusík in March, Vladimír Vlk, energy advisor for the new Minister of the Environment Rut Bízková, will now make the keynote presentation at the upcoming Bioenergy International expo & conference next week in Prague on 5-6 May.
Dusik resigned because he felt that the prime minister had put him under undue pressure to…
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In Finland refining and marketing company Neste Oil has begun testing its Neste Green 100 diesel as transport fuel.
Neste Green 100 diesel is made from 100% renewable raw materials which have between 40 and 80% lower carbon dioxide emissions than conventional diesel. Its tailpipe emissions are also lower.
Neste Oil’s executive vice president Sakari Toivola said: ‘This is the first time…
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Biology-based renewable energy company Coskata develops technology for the production of biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials and has now closed a round of equity financing with French oil major Total.
The oil and gas firm has invested in the round of equity financing and will have a seat on Coskata’s Board of Directors.
The investment will go towards helping Coskata…
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Ferry service company Miller Boat Line is switching to green fuel this season to ferry travellers to Put-in-Bay in Ohio, US.
The William Market passenger vessel is to run on a 10 to 20% blend of G2 Diesel to Put-in-Bay, which is located on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Although using biodiesel will cost Miller Boat Line more than conventional diesel, this will not affect travel prices.
G2…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Antti Pasanen (AP), Doctor of Technology for St1 Biofuels, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
BI: What is the main subject of your presentation?
AP: I am going to give a speech, about new…
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A signed agreement between Globasol and TSK-Ingemas, of the Spanish group Globalia, will see the construction of the Dominican Republic’s first biodiesel plant.
Costing $40 million (€29.5 million) and expected to be completed within 14 months, the plant will convert 60,000 hectares of jatropha and higuereta into 100,000 tonnes of biofuels at the site in Azua province.
Included in the…
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Green Future Innovations, a Japanese joint venture between ITOCHU Corp. and JGC Corp. is to become involved in a Philippines-based biofuels project, along with other local partners.
The project, based in Isabela province, will include the production of power and ethanol at a commercial scale.
Green Future will manufacture and sell the biofuel produced from 54,000 kilolitres (kl) of sugarcane…
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A US-based biofuels producer has been hit with a hefty $176,750 (€130,479) fine for pollution offences.
A District Court issued the punishment to Lincolnway Energy and its ethanol plant in Nevada following a civil lawsuit brought by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
The company was accused of releasing excessive amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere such as particulates and…
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