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In Brazil, a weak sugarcane harvest has hit the generation of ethanol hard, leading to a decrease in production. As a result, fuel prices have risen, forcing the government to amend the tax on fuel.
According to the government, the CIDE tax will be cut by $0.04 per litre (€0.03) for a total of three months. The three-month tax reduction will result in revenue’s being down by $48.6 million.
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After signing the contracts, Jatoil Limited and PT Waterland International are to embark on a joint venture in Indonesia.
In Central Java, the two companies will attain around 2,000 hectares of land, half of which already contains jatropha trees. It is these trees that are expected to produce the jatropha oil for 2010, a year ahead of previous expectations, while the remaining 1,000 hectares…
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In Latvia, plans are underway to construct a bioethanol production plant.
Bioethanol producer Jaunpagasts Plus has chosen to build the €65 million plant in the Riga Port because of the economic and practical reasons it provides. The plant will be powered by woodchips and this is a convenient location to receive woodchip deliveries as well as exporting the bioethanol.
The facility will…
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In Tennessee, a new biodiesel processing system has been purchased by the city of Clarksville.
The acquisition was funded by a federal grant, and will allow Clarksville Gas and Water to convert used cooking oil into biofuel. The city hopes that the biodiesel produced will eventually power the city’s buses. This will cost significantly less, as ordinary diesel is priced at almost $2.80 per…
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Following in the reduced carbon footprints of Ford and Chrysler, General Motors is now demonstrating its support for the biofuels industry.
GM has created a new Duramax 6.6L turbo diesel engine that can power a 20% blend of biodiesel. The new engine will run new 2011 heavy-duty models such as the Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra pickup trucks, Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans. Chevrolet is…
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Dag Roger Rinde, CEO of Norwegian oil company Statoil, is the latest speaker to confirm his attendance at the upcoming Bioenergy International expo & conference in Prague on 5-6 May.
Statoil is the first company in Norway to offer 5% ethanol to general consumers, but it has not been an easy ride. The company’s story is full of setbacks and obstacles, not least from the government…
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In Edinburgh, UK, a joint venture between Forth Ports and Scottish & Southern Energy could result in one of the largest infrastructure developments in Scotland.
The outline proposals are due for release and if they are approved, a £360 million (€414.5 million) biomass plant will be built at Leith Docks, Scotland.
The construction of the facility will see a storage tower pulled down, the…
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With a string of investments under its belt since 2005, including SiC Processing, Ostara, Hydrodec and Solar Century, growth capital investor Frog Capital’s most recent investee comes in the form of the German company, agri.capital.
Now one of Europe’s largest biogas producers, Munster-based agri.capital employs 130 people over 46 electricity production sites. The firm has a fitted…
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The Netherlands-based energy major Shell and Brazilian ethanol manufacturer and trader Cosan have formed a joint venture (JV) to produce 2 billion litres a year of ethanol.
The $12 billion (€8.6 billion) JV will also generate power, and the supply, distribution and retail of transportation fuels.
‘We see joining with Cosan as a way to grow the role of low-carbon, sustainable biofuels in the…
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In Florida, the fate of Algenol’s future biofuel production facility is in the hands of Lee County officials.
Close to receiving the three votes needed for the construction of a $10 million (€7.2 million) research lab, new corporate headquarters and a production utility in Lee County, not everyone appears to be on board.
With the money being taken from the county’s $25 million economic…
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Two internationally renowned companies, Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company, have signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding and will now discuss the possibilities of joining forces and heading into the biomass-to-energy industry.
Mitsubishi, Japan’s largest general trading company has over 200 bases in approximately 80 countries and could join forces with Weyerhaeuser, one of…
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New Delhi, India-based Mavens Biotech is planning to set up three biomass power plants with a total capacity of 30 MW.
The Rs 700,000,000 (€10.8 million) investment on the proposed power project is likely to be met with internal accruals and debt, M D Kanther, chairman of the company, says.
The company reported net sales of Rs 37.14 crore in the nine month ending 31 December 2009 compared to…
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UK utility provider British Gas will build five biomethane demonstration projects to inject purified biogas into the UK’s national gas grid for use by consumers.
The projects are due to come online in mid-2010, with the first biomethane project seeing the construction of a plant to purify raw biogas from Thames Water’s Didcot sewage works.
Thames Water and Scotia Gas Networks already…
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The UK is proving a popular site for biogas projects – Germany-based MT-Energie has now begun construction on two 1MW biogas plants in southern England.
The plants, one north of Oxford and the other near Bognor Regis, are nearing completion and both should be operational by Q2.
Support such as Feed-in Tariffs, two ROCs offered for anaerobic digestion and the possibilities offered by the…
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The UK is getting greener with its launch of renewable energy tariffs starting from April.
The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)’s system will offer a comprehensive system of tariffs for biogas injected into natural gas pipelines, and renewable heat.
Renewable heat technologies meet just 0.6% of UK heat demand, but by 2020 the government aims to meet 12% or more of the UK’s…
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The Port of Rotterdam figures for 2009 show there was a substantial decline in the handling of soyabean oil, sunflower oil and rapeseed oil.
Biofuels (biodiesel, ethanol and ETBE) were also down. The moderate sugar harvest put pressure on Brazilian exports of ethanol. This was compensated for partly by imports of ethanol from Spain and France via Rotterdam.
Imports of biodiesel fell due to…
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The construction of three new plants could soon be underway in Hungary. With a draft government decree issued last month making one of the refineries a priority project, the process of obtaining the necessary documentation will be decreased.
The new plants are to be built in the Hungarian towns of Dunaföldvár, Kaba and Dunaalmas. Already a priority project, the facility in Dunaföldvár will…
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