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Dec 4, 2015
Biodico opens 20Mgy biodiesel plant in California
Policy News
Dec 7, 2015
Spain has set a mandate for a biofuel blending target of 8.5% in its petrol and diesel supply by 2020.
In a statement, the Spanish ministry of Industry, Energy, and Tourism says to reach the target, the country will start by requiring a 4.3% blend from next year, which will be scaled up by the end of the decade.
Spain aims to produce 20% of its electricity from renewables... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 7, 2015
The global biofuels industry is calling on the world leaders attending the COP21 summit in Paris to replace at least 15% of the global oil use in transport with biofuels by 2030.
The statement was issued by five biofuel and biotech organisations that represent over 330 companies who produce 90% of the world’s biofuel supply.
Global transport emissions have increased... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 7, 2015
China New Energy has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Sunbird Bioenergy Africa for the development of two biorefineries, one each in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The Memorandum of Undestanding (MOU) was signed at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) 6th Ministerial Conference and Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Under the terms of the MOU, China New... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 8, 2015
California has not taken full advantage of opportunities to increase its in-state production of biofuel, despite state policies that encourage biofuel consumption, according to a report by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools.
Coming on the heels of new Environmental Protection Agency rules on... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 9, 2015
University of Massachusetts Amherst computational chemist Scott Auerbach has been awarded a three-year, $330,000 (€300,400) grant from the National Science Foundation to improve basic understanding and optimise the process of producing fuels such as gasoline from plant biomass.
For more than 50 years chemists and chemical engineers have refined crude oil using synthetic... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 9, 2015
The reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions from global ethanol production and use is increasing annually, says a new report by the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance.
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), in cooperation with energy and environment consulting firm (S&T)2 Consultants released a new report titled Green House Gas (GHG) Emission Reductions... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 9, 2015
Scania Malaysia and the innovation agency Agensi Inovasi Malaysia are to collaborate in exploring viable commercial opportunities for biofuels from municipal waste in Malaysia.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between the two parties in line with Malaysia’s National Biomass Strategy 2020 (NBS2020).
The MOU will see Scania and Agensi Inovasi Malaysia... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 11, 2015
The US Grains Council’s ethanol export promotion programme has seen an early success with a US exporter confirming significant sales of US ethanol to Peru.
The 10 million gallons of ethanol, valued at more than $15 million (€13.7m), were sold after the US Grains Council (USGC) led a team of Peruvian ethanol buyers and producers to participate in the International... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 11, 2015
An initiative by Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute for wood and biomaterials, to understand the future potential of biofuels in New Zealand has attracted attention from ‘serious players’.
Scion reports that actors in industry, government, and sector interest groups in addition to the research community have expressed interest in its New Zealand... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 14, 2015
Bioethanol and petrol blends lowered CO2 emissions from road traffic in Germany by around 1.2 million tonnes in the first three quarters of 2015, a new study says.
According to the findings of a study in German on the economic importance of the largest site of German bioethanol production in Saxony-Anhalt, every litre of bioethanol reduced greenhouse gas emission by 1.1kg.
‘This... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 14, 2015
A team of experts from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and the University of Cambridge in the UK are embarking to research renewable energy and to develop biofuels for use in small machines like lawnmower.
The research project also attempts to discover the most cost effective and low-emission biofuel source for its purposes, such as jatropha or a mixed source.
According... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 14, 2015
The Indonesian government expects the country’s biodiesel consumption to have diminished by nearly half this year compared to 2014.
Government officials say that in 2015 the country is expected to have consumed a total of 825,000 kilolitres of biodiesel, which marks a dramatic 49% decline from the 1.6 million kilolitres consumed last year.
According to Bayu Krisnamurthi,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 14, 2015
Co-op Power, a consumer-owned sustainable energy cooperative, expects its new biodiesel plant in Greenfield, Massachusetts, to come online in early 2016.
The plant will take in used cooking oil (UCO) from local restaurants, schools, and institutions and convert it into millions of gallons of biodiesel.
According to Co-op Power CEO Lynn Benander, the Northeast Biodiesel... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 14, 2015
New Heaven Chemicals, a US-based subsidiary of the TSS Group, is preparing to open its chemical production facility in Manly, Iowa.
After 17 months of construction, New Heaven Chemicals (NHC) plans to begin production of sodium methylate, a biofuel catalyst, by February 2016.
The Manly plant is NHC’s first plant in the US, and it will supplement the company’s... [Read More]
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