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Jan 13, 2016
CropEnergies posts revenue dip due to UK plant closure
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Jan 14, 2016
President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union address to make an economic case for action against climate change and call for accelerating the US away from "dirty energy" like coal.
Earlier in the week (12 January, 2015), the President broadly touted job growth in renewable energy industries and said making "technology work for us" to solve urgent issues like... [Read More]
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Jan 14, 2016
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has predicted that ethanol production will average 970,000 barrels per day in both 2016 and 2017 in the US.
The organisation published the information in the January issue of its 'Short-Term Energy Outlook'.
The EIA has increased its prediction for 2016 when compared to the 960,000 barrel per day prediction included in the... [Read More]
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Jan 15, 2016
The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) group said it has filed a motion to intervene to support the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a challenge against the US biofuels standard from the country's biofuel and agricultural groups.
AFPM, which represents oil companies, stands by EPA's authority to reduce biofuels requirements from volumes established... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2015
Hawaiʻi Island is primed for the creation of biorefineries designed to use waste from cattle and possibly from humans to create biofuel, according to the University of Hawai’i.
Shihwu Sung, a professor of applied engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Hilo, moved to Hilo last year to explore emerging alternative energy opportunities.
Sung believes... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 4, 2015
Biodico Westside, a California-based biorefinery producer, has opened its 20 million gpy biodiesel production facility in Five Points, California.
The facility is designed to be able to produce fuel from all fats and oils available and will specialise in producing low carbon intensity fuels under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
Biodico provides heat... [Read More]
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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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