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Sep 26, 2016
Green Plains completes Abengoa ethanol plant acquisition
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Sep 27, 2016
V8 Supercar champion and Bathurst 1000 winner Mark Winterbottom is the face of a new advertising campaign encouraging motorists to increase their use of biofuels in Queensland, Australia.
Minister for Energy and Biofuels Mark Bailey joined Winterbottom to launch the state’s Palaszczuk Government’s new E10 OK biofuels education campaign at the RNA showgrounds... [Read More]
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Sep 27, 2016
In the US, Iowa State University and Chevron U.S.A have developed the BioCentury Research Farm, a biofuels pilot plant, as a joint project.
The project’s aim is to develop and demonstrate an advanced biorenewables technology called solvent liquefaction.
The process converts biomass such as quarter-inch wood chips into a bio-oil that can be processed into fuels... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 27, 2016
The New York City Council is planning to pass legislation on Wednesday to give a major boost to the level of biodiesel blended into home heating oil.
But the planned policy comes amidst criticism from environmental groups claiming that the increased biodiesel percentage will do more harm than good for the nature.
Currently, New York has a mandate in place to blend 2% of... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 28, 2016
Activists from Greenpeace blocked entry to a palm oil refinery at the Port of Rotterdam for seven hours on Tuesday due to claims of the plant being linked to Indonesian environmental concerns.
A report by the environmental group links IOI, the owner of the Croklaan palm oil refinery, to deforestation, wildfires, and human rights violations including using child labour... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 29, 2016
The City of New York passed legislation on Wednesday that incrementally displaces 20% of the heating oil sold within the city with biodiesel.
The bill, which passed by a 47-3 vote and is expected to be signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, will increase the amount of biodiesel in heating oil in the City from the current 2% level to 5% by 1 October, 2017.
The blend level... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 29, 2016
The share of ethanol in the US petrol market rose to 10.2% last week, according to a report published by the US Energy Information Association (EIA) on Wednesday.
The increase in market share breaches the so called blend wall at 10%, over which the biofuels industry and petroleum producers have wrestled for several years.
The oil and petroleum industry claims that ethanol... [Read More]
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Sep 29, 2016
Global Bioenergies and Clariant have started isobutene production from a wheat straw hydrolysate in the industrial pilot of Pomacle Bazancourt.
The project combines Clariant’s proprietary process, allowing for the conversion of agricultural residues into sugar-rich hydrolysates, with Global Bioenergies’ proprietary process for the production of isobutene from... [Read More]
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Sep 29, 2016
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Texas-based Mard, formerly known as KiOR, and its former CEO and president Fred Cannon non-disclosure of key facts regarding the company’s technology.
The charge, filed on 26 September, states the company and Cannon failed to disclose important assumptions about the yield that KiOR had claimed to have achieved... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Oct 3, 2016
A Nebraska, US, company has found a way to make dry cattle feed pellets from an ethanol by-product without adding any binding ingredients.
Platte Valley Distillers told AP news agency it has secured the rights to a patented technique that will allow it to make feed pellets in Lexington that can be easily transported for possible export.
Ethanol plants routinely sell distillers... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Oct 3, 2016
Noble Group has taken full ownership of previously 50%-held subsidiary Noble Mansfield Renewable Energy for $2.47 million (€2.2m).
Noble, a commodity trader, said that the acquisition was financed with internal resources, The Business Times reports.
The book value and net tangible asset of Noble Mansfield was about S$3.3 million on 30 August, 2016, Noble said.
Noble... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 9, 2016
Oil refiner and renewable solutions developer Neste is planning to start selling diesel produced entirely from renewable raw materials at selected stations in Finland around the turn of the year.
Majority of the feedstock Neste uses to refine the renewable diesel consists of waste and residues.
The product launch is one of Neste's ways to participate in the centenary of... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Sep 9, 2016
US production of biodiesel was 135 million gallons in June 2016, marking a 2 million gallon increase from the previous month, according to Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.
Biodiesel production from the Midwest region (Petroleum Administration for Defense District 2) accounted for 68% of the US total, the EIA’s Monthly Biodiesel Production Report states.
Production... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 12, 2016
Industry experts have backed a report by the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) which suggests that the UK will miss its 2020 renewable energy targets.
Despite progress in some areas of its renewables commitments, there is simply not enough being done, ECCC says in its new report titled 2020 renewable heat and transport targets.
The UK has... [Read More]
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Sep 12, 2016
Boskalis, a Netherlands-based global dredging and marine expert, and GoodFuels Marine, a provider of marine biofuels to the global commercial shipping fleet, has tested UPM’s new sustainable wood-based drop-in biofuel on a marine vessel.
The drop-in biofuel is called UPM BioVerno.
The tests were conducted on a vessel working on the Dutch Marker Wadden nature restoration... [Read More]
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