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Sep 24, 2014
Fire at Abengoa ethanol plant
Bioethanol News
Sep 24, 2014
A stolen tanker crashed and leaked ethanol on Tuesday 24th September, in Autauga County, Alabama, US. The driver, who stole the tanker truck from Florida Rock and Tank Lines in Montgomery, Alabama, US, has now been identified. Shortly after 11 am, crews had started transferring ethanol to another tanker, after containing the leak. There were no reported injuries.... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Sep 25, 2014
Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels will supply biofuel to Southwest Airlines and to the military starting in 2016. The airline has agreed to buy three million gallons of low-carbon jet fuel per year from advanced renewable provider Red Rock Biofuels. The fuel will be manufactured at a plant, soon to be constructed, in Lakeview, Oregon, US. The $200 million plant will convert... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Sep 25, 2014
Elevance Renewable Sciences, a specialty chemicals company based in Illinois, the US, will partner with Malaysia's Genting Plantations, through its subsidiary Genting Integrated Biorefinery, to build a 240,000-tonne factory at POIC Lahad Datu. The factory, which will be the first in Malaysia, is thought to lead to new technologies in the area and a cluster of biorefineries... [Read More]

Bioethanol News
Sep 26, 2014
A minor fire broke out earlier this week at Archer Daniels Midland's ethanol plant in Peoria, Illinois, US. At approximately 11.30 am on 22 September, an evaporator vessel that was down for repairs caught fire at the company's corn processing plant in Peoria. This then activated the sprinkler system, which contained the fire. There were no injuries and the plant is now... [Read More]

Bioethanol News
Sep 26, 2014
GranBio Investimentos, a Brazilian biotechnology company, has started production at its cellulosic ethanol plant in Alagoas, Brazil. The company invested $190 million (€149 million) in the facility, which is the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the southern hemisphere. The Bioflex 1 plant has the capacity to produce 82 million litres per year of... [Read More]

Bioethanol News
Sep 29, 2014
Green Fuel's ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe, is reportedly discharging harmful waste matter. Zimbabwe's parliament has heard how the waste matter has reportedly caused some people to become partially blind, while others are developing feet sores. Appearing before a parliamentary committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Empowerment, Mutsa Chasi, head of Environmental... [Read More]

Bioethanol News
Sep 30, 2014
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved permits for Archer Daniels Midland's ethanol plant. The permits enable the underground injection and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from an ethanol plant. Issued under the relatively new Underground Injection Control Program Class VI, the permits are expected to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Sep 30, 2014
KazMunayGas Trading has lost its court case against Austrian oil company OMV Petrom. The product and supplies company will have to pay over $70 million (€56 million) to Romanian tax administration agency ANAF, for contentious biodiesel imports from Canada originating in the US. This sum was awarded for recovering losses generated by the OLAF investigation and the... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has filed comments with the European Commission (EC) challenging blocked US biodiesel exports to Europe. Since 2009, the EC has prevented biodiesel exports trading from US to Europe, a move that the NBB calls 'unfair'. NBB urges the EC to allow duties on US biodiesel imports to expire this year planned, arguing that global trade for biodiesel... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Oct 1, 2014
International aviation group Lufthansa and sustainable energy specialists JatroSolutions have signed an MoU to make the production of jatropha commercially viable. Lufthansa will help the start-up company set up a raw materials supply chain to ensure the provision of biosynthetic fuel derived from the jatropha plant. Joachim Buse, VP, Aviation Biofuel at Lufthansa, says:... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Oct 2, 2014
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is expected to spend up to $25 million (€19.8 million) on improving algae production and development. The Department is working on reducing the costs of algae biofuel down below $5-per-gallon equivalent in petrol by 2019 by improving current technologies. If that doesn't seem very ambitious compare that to the state of play without... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Oct 2, 2014
Crop company Agrisoma Biosciences has finished the first closing of its Series A financing round, expected to total $8 million through 2014. Cycle Capital Management led the financing round, which included participation of BDC Venture Capital, one of Agrisoma's current equity investors. Certified sustainable by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), Carinata... [Read More]

Biodiesel News
Oct 3, 2014
EU authorities has given the go ahead for Airbus' new long-haul A350 plane to start flying. Deliveries of the next-generation aircraft will be sent to its first client Qatar Airways shortly. The new A350 plane has been manufactured to help the European airline catch up with Boeing's efforts to create long-haul, fuel-efficient planes. Using light composite materials, the... [Read More]

Policy News
Oct 3, 2014
Cellulosic ethanol production could help create up to 9 million cellulosic D3 renewable identification numbers (RINs) in 2014, if active plants reach full capacity, suggests Genscape. Data and market specialist Genscape has released its white paper, Outlook for 2014 cellulosic production and D3 RINs, which looks at the current state of biofuels. In the paper, the company... [Read More]


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