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UK entrepreneur Richard Branson has raised £150 million (€174 million) through private equity to invest in renewable energy.
A significant proportion of this money will be invested in biofuels, notably isobutanol, which Branson intends to use as aircraft fuel.
The Virgin Green Fund is one of the few private equity ventures to raise its target amount this year. Branson has invested £70…
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US-based National Wind Solutions (NWND) has bought an undisclosed biodiesel plant in Texas for $3 million (€2.1 million) and has announced its intention to convert it to produce biodiesel from second-generation feedstock.
After successfully producing soyabean biodiesel for commercial transportation uses, the plant was mothballed by its original producers because of the high cost of…
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In the US, Virginia-based green energy specialist Osage BioEnergy has joined forces with agriculture expert Perdue Agribusiness to supply barley for conversion to ethanol at a plant under construction in Hopewell, Virginia.
Perdue will work with local farmers to supply 28 million bushels of barley to the 65Mgy bioethanol plant. The ethanol will be sold in local markets in E10 and E85 fuel…
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MGT Power is planning a second 300MW bioelectricity plant in the British Port of Tyne to accompany the current project under construction in nearby Teesport.
MGT details plans for the Tyne Renewable Energy Plant (TREP) to be located on industrial land 10 kms east of Newcastle city centre on the north bank of the River Tyne. The proposed plant would burn about 2.4 million tonnes of wood a year…
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A new HUF 14 billion (€52 million) bioelectricity plant in Szakoly, eastern Hungary, is set to be operating commercially by September 2009.
The Hungarian Energy minister announced that plant workers are currently conducting a trial run, which, assuming there are no unforeseen difficulties, should be completed by the end of August.
The plant will burn 170,000–180,000 locally produced biomass…
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In Pakistan, the Ministry of Environment has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) to implement a commercially viable Rs2.8 million (€24,000) biogas programme.
In the programme’s first phase, set to run until 2012, 30,000 digesters will be installed in selected rural areas. The programme aims to use the market and non-market benefits of…
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A dispute delaying construction work on the UK’s largest bioethanol plant has been resolved.
On Tuesday 4 August workers on the plant at Teesside were sent home on paid leave over a commercial dispute involving project managers Simon Carves and its sub-contractors.
Simon Carves reportedly cut strings with the project leaving Ensus to manage the build.
But an Ensus spokesman has now confirmed…
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The volume of anhydrous ethanol exported from Brazil to the US has fallen from 376.2 million litres in Q2 2008 to 22.3 million litres in Q2 2009.
Several factors explain this dramatic reduction. Rains during much of June reduced the number of days available for sugarcane crushing, lowering the volume of cane harvested as well as the sucrose content of the cane. This is despite the entry of 10…
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The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) has complained to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about possible errors in the data modelling used in the proposed enhanced Renewable Fuels Standard, widely known as RFS2.
The RFA has long had concerns about the EPA's proposal to force all producers of biofuels to take into account the effects of indirect land use changes (ILUC), such as…
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In the US, the Minnesota-based Guardian Energy has agreed to purchase a 100Mgy corn ethanol plant in Janesville, Minnesota from the financial services company AgStar Lending Group. Guardian Energy hopes to close the deal by 15 September.
The Janesville plant has passed through a string of owners since planning originally began in 2004. The plant was originally built by US BioEnergy, which…
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Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is set to become the US’ biggest producer of bioethanol despite an 83% drop in profits in the fiscal fourth quarter.
The company is due to open new 275 Mgy bioethanol plants: one in the fourth (calendar) quarter of 2009 and one in Q3 2010. It anticipates that demand for ethanol will be driven by an expected increase in the permitted percentage of…
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Plankton Power and Regional Technology Development (RTDC) are to form a consortium with various research organisations and the Massachusetts National Guard to establish the Cape Cod Algae Biorefinery in the US state of Massachusetts. The new facility will focus on pilot- and commercial-scale development of algae biodiesel.
Pending legal and regulatory reviews, the plant will be built on five…
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In the credit squeeze and with plants idling around them, biodiesel producers are keen to ensure what they bring into the plant and what they produce out of it will survive the winter.
Having a flexible source of raw materials is one way to weather the volatile ride the industry is taking. Biodiesel producer Innovation Fuels has been processing waste vegetable oil to produce biodiesel, but is…
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US-based second-generation biofuel company PetroAlgae is investigating the use of microcrops other than algae as feedstocks. PetroAlgae claims its technology, which uses the miniature flowering plant lemna, is ready for commercialisation.
PetroAlgae currently operates two labs and one customer demonstration facility, all in the US state of Florida. The customer demonstration facility includes…
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