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The US Department of Agriculture could offer US farmers greater financial incentives for developing cellulosic ethanol projects.
The USDA announced it would guarantee $80 million (€57 million) in loans for the production of cellulosic ethanol.
Increased biofuel production will be necessary as the industry works to comply with current national energy policy, which is drawn to wean consumers…
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Michigan, US-based Dow Chemical has backed Algenol Biofuels’ pioneering pilot-scale project to convert algae and carbon dioxide into ethanol fuel.
The project will use Algenol's technology that calls for carbon dioxide and saltwater supplied to algae in photobioreactors to produce the biofuel.
The project aims to create a breakthrough in ethanol production that does not use food…
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Sweden-based Chemrec has been granted SEK 500 million (€45 million) in funding from the Swedish Energy Agency’s Energy R&D Board to build an industrial scale renewable fuel plant.
The plant will use biomass through gasification of black liquor.
The planned location for the plant is the Domsjö biorefinery complex in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.
Production in the Chemrec plant is targeted…
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General Biodiesel Seattle has completed its acquisition of Imperium Renewables’ Seattle Biodiesel facility in Washington, US.
General Biodiesel is converting the Seattle-based commercial biodiesel refinery to produce biodiesel from waste oils such as recycled cooking oil and animal fat, which the company collects from restaurants and food stores around the region.
The acquisition of the plant…
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The UK Environment Agency has undertaken a new scheme of turning its leftover food into energy.
Food waste from the public sector organisation’s 37 sites is being collected and taken to a state of the art biomass plant where it is turned into renewable energy.
The participating sites create a monthly food waste of around 4.3 tonnes, which could generate 4.29MW of renewable energy, or enough…
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Neste Oil and forestry sustainability company Stora Enso have inaugurated their biomass to liquids demonstration plant at Varkaus, Finland.
The joint venture, NSE Biofuels, utilises forestry residues and has been established first to develop technology and to produce commercial-scale biocrude for renewable diesel.
The demonstration facility at Stora Enso’s Varkaus Mill includes a 12 MW…
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Royal Dutch Shell is trialling a 10% cellulosic ethanol blend petrol at a Shell service station in Ottawa, Canada.
The cellulosic ethanol, made from wheat straw, was produced at Iogen Energy's demonstration plant in Ottawa using advanced conversion processes. Biotechnology firm Iogen and Shell are partners in the plant, which produces 40,000 litres of fuel per month.
The month-long…
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Japan Biofuels Supply (JBSL) has entered into an agreement to buy between 50,000-82,000 barrels of bioethanol from two domestic producers in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
The producers will provide the bioethanol as a feedstock for tertiary butyl ether (ETBE) which is used in blending with petrol.
The Hokkaido based producers, Oenon Holdings and Hokkaido Bioethanol, have signed a contract with the…
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The President of Sudan, Omar al-Beshir, has opened a new 200 million-litre ethanol from sugarcane plant in the White Nile State.
State-owned company Kenana, which already makes sugar and molasses, will run the ethanol plant where production levels are forecast to reach 200 million litres in two years.
The factory, which lies about 250 kilometres south of Khartoum, was built by Brazilian group…
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The International Renewable Energy Alliance (REN Alliance) has taken a further step to strengthen its stance regarding the worldwide renewable energy sector by welcoming the World Bioenergy Association amongst its ranks.
The agreement ensures that all the leading international renewable energy organisations are now part of the REN Alliance. The Alliance already represents agencies concerning the…
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The Californian Water Resources Control Board has approved expanding the state’s limit for underground storage of biodiesel blends from the existing B5 limitation up to B20.
This ruling builds on the ASTM specifications adopted late last year allowing the underground storage of the biodiesel B5 blend, from the previous law of no underground storage of any biodiesel blend.
The 25-year-old…
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The German parliament’s upper house has vetoed government proposals to cut its biofuels blending target this year and further raise taxes on biofuels.
The upper house, which represents the federal arm of the governments, has refused to accept a plan to cut the 2009 blending target to 5.25% biofuel content in fossil fuel from 6.25% originally intended.
As members of the EU, the government are…
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Biofuels Manufacturers of Illinois has completed the first commercial harvest of a weed called pennycress.
The plant once called ‘stinkweed’ is a member of the mustard family with seeds that contain 36%, twice as much as soyabeans.
Officials from the company stated that they are interested in building a plant in Mapleton, Illinois, that would be able to produce 60 million gallons of…
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Sweden-based Chemrec’s development plant in Piteå, Sweden, has now reached 10,000 accumulated operating hours producing syngas from biomass to produce second generation green motor fuels.
Chemrec's plant is the only gasification plant world-wide producing high-quality synthesis gas based on 100% renewable feedstock.
The development plant, DP-1, has a capacity of 20 tonnes of solids a…
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The global potential for the biofuels market will reach up to $247 billion (€178 billion) in sales by 2020, indicates a study released by market researcher Pike Research.
The forecast predicts the industry to ride the wave of current setbacks it faces to triple its predicted worth of $76 billion by 2010 in just ten years.
Pike highlights that the biofuels industry’s growth is currently…
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