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Jul 6, 2015
New IRENA Platform supports renewable energy innovation, quality and collaboration
Bioethanol News
Jul 6, 2015
Green Plains Partners has closed its initial public offering (IPO) of 11,500,000 common units representing limited partner interests at $15 (€13.5) per common unit. The number of common units issued at closing included 1,500,000 common units that were issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional common units.
The common units... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jul 7, 2015
United Airlines has invested $30 million (€27 million) in Fulcrum Bioenergy and will have the option to directly participate in Fulcrum's waste-to-jet fuel plants across North America.
United will also have the opportunity to purchase 90 million gallons per year of Fulcrum's cost-competitive, sustainable jet fuel under long-term offtake agreements, subject to availability.
'This... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jul 9, 2015
Green3Power Operations, a wholly owned subsidiary of BioPower Operations, has been granted permission to build a $175 million (€158.5 million) biofuels plant in Florida's St. Lucie County, US.
The energy facility will convert waste into ultra-low sulfur synthetic green No. 2 diesel fuel using G3P's gasification technology and the Fischer-Tropsch process. It will be... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 9, 2015
In Kansas, US, an ethanol producers group, formerly known as the Kansas Association of Ethanol Processors (KAEP), has changed its name to Renew Kansas.
According to the company, the name change better reflects the group's mission to promote ethanol as a renewable fuel that is good for the state's consumers, the environment and the economy.
'Changing our name to Renew Kansas... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jul 14, 2015
Boeing and Japanese aviation industry stakeholders have charted a course to develop sustainable aviation biofuel for flights during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, when millions of people are expected to visit Japan.
The Initiatives for Next Generation Aviation Fuels (INAF) – a consortium of 46 organisations including Boeing, All Nippon Airways (ANA),... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 14, 2015
Vecoplan has executed a fixed-price contract with Fulcrum BioEnergy, to design, engineer, install and commission a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock processing system for Fulcrum's Sierra BioFuels Plant.
Fulcrum has developed a reliable and efficient process for converting MSW, or household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled, into low-cost, low-carbon renewable... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 27, 2015
Ceres, an agricultural biotechnology company, has been awarded a US patent for a genetic sequence derived from soyabean, covering uses of the gene in areas such as research, product development and plant transformation.
The company believes that its gene is useful in regulating key biosynthetic processes that are the target of a class of commercial herbicides. Ceres plans... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 28, 2015
Palm oil is predominantly consumed for food applications, however in the last decade palm oil consumption for biofuels has increased considerably.
According to Frost & Sullivan, global palm oil production is expected to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 5.9% in the period 2011 to 2020 to reach 84 million tonnes. The majority of this growth is expected... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 28, 2015
Renewable energy accounted for 9.8% of total domestic energy consumption in 2014, report the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). This marks the highest renewable energy share since the 1930s, when wood was a much larger contributor to domestic energy supply.
Renewable energy use grew an average of 5% per year over 2001-2014 from its most recent low in 2001. The... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 1, 2015
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), together with other producer syndicates and associations and Brazil's Cane Technology Center (CTC), has announced a projection for the 2015/2016 South Central sugarcane harvest of 590 million tonnes. This would represent an increase of 18.66 million tonnes from the 571.34 million tonnes processed in 2014/2015.
The higher... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 1, 2015
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest up to $100 million (€91 million) in a Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership to support the infrastructure needed to make more renewable fuel options available to American consumers.
Specifically, USDA will administer competitive grants to match funding for state-led efforts to test and evaluate innovative and comprehensive... [Read More]
Policy News
Jun 2, 2015
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced proposed volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) programme for 2014, 2015 and 2016, and also proposed volume requirements for biomass-based diesel for 2017.
The proposal would boost renewable fuel production and provide for ambitious yet responsible growth over multiple years, supporting future... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 2, 2015
CHS, North American farmer-owned cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company, has acquired the Patriot Renewable Fuels ethanol plant from Patriot Holdings.
The Annawan, Illinois facility produces 125 million gallons of ethanol annually, and is the second ethanol plant that CHS has purchased; in June 2014 it acquired the former Illinois River Energy plant... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 4, 2015
Ensyn Fuels, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ensyn , has signed a contract with Youngstown Thermal for the supply of RFO – Ensyn's advanced cellulosic biofuel.
Ensyn Fuels is to provide Youngstown Thermal up to 2,500,000 gallons of RFO per year, with deliveries to begin as soon as the fourth quarter of 2015, in time for the 2015-2016 winter season. Youngstown Thermal... [Read More]
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Kilang #Pertamina Internasional, a refinery unit of Indonesia's state owned energy firm Pertamina, aims to produce its first certified sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the first quarter of this year.
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