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Following an indication given by the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) Italian customs authorities seized a large quantity of illegal biodiesel at the end of March.
This operation, as carried out by the Custom authorities of the port of Venice was validated by an Italian judge. The 10,000 tonnes of biodiesel were imported in the ports of Venice and Trieste in mid-March. The load was declared as…
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In Germany sales of pure biodiesel have fallen rapidly between 2007 and 2009.
Based on official statistics published by Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (Federal Office of Economics and Export Control - BAFA), the Union zur Förderung von Oel- und Proteinpflanzen e. V. (UFOP) analysed the domestic consumption of biofuels from 2007 to 2009 and found that sales of pure biodiesel…
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With 135 million litres of ethanol being manufactured from six sugar factories in India it looks like the country’s production of biofuels is on the up.
The ethanol is blended with petrol in order to comply with India’s 10% ethanol target by the end of 2011. According to the state’s Biofuel Task Force president Y B Ramakrishna, ‘There is a target of increasing the use of ethanol to 10%…
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The Indian government has approved further capital investment by biodiesel refiner Australia-based Mission NewEnergy into its Indian feedstock business.
Mission will also continue with the original approved activity of being engaged in the contract farming of jatropha and utilising the jatropha oil for domestic or export markets.
The managing director of Mission Nathan Mahalingam said:…
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A total of $79.75 million (€58.3 million) will be awarded to the GreenField ethanol plant in Varennes, Quebec, Canada, over a period of seven years.
GreenField will receive the funding from the Canadian government’s ecoENERGY for Biofuels programme. ‘What it allows us to do is maintain the right operating margins to support operations,’ said Jean Roberge, the GM of GreenField Ethanol of…
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After the construction of an ethanol biorefinery began in late 2007 work ceased a year later and Illinois-based Aventine Renewable Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2009 but now things are changing.
The Posey County ethanol plant in Mount Vernon was near completion when the building work was forced to stop due to a rise in the cost of ethanol production. The prices of oil…
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India’s largest energy firms NTPC and Indian Oil Corp (IOC) are considering biodiesel production.
The two companies will undertake research and development on an integrated biodiesel unit for developing new innovative technology.
The biodiesel project is in line with the government-proposed policy on biofuels. The government is considering to replace 10% of petroleum product requirement in…
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A group of UK companies working under the Carbon Trust aims to start producing biofuel from a pilot plant in 2014 eventually producing over 2 million tonnes a year from UK biomass.
Axion Energy, along with catalytic technologies company Catal International, CARE and technology provider Aquafuel Research, will aim to turn the pyrolysis process into a cheap and green way of producing biofuel on a…
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Overall production of ethanol will increase by 16.2% this year resulting in 85.9 billion litres being manufactured.
This rise in ethanol production will see more than one million barrels of biofuels a day replace 370 million barrels of oil this year, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) forecasts.
With over 45 billion litres of ethanol expected to be manufactured in the US alone this…
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KLM, a Dutch airline operator and part of Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM, is aiming to offer flights to the public that will use biofuels.
In November 2009 a 90 minute KLM aeroplane flew over the Netherlands in a Boeing 747.
During this flight one out of the three engines used a 50:50 biofuels blend while the other two ran on 100% kerosene.
According to Peter Hartman, KLM’s chief executive,…
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In California Envirepel Energy plans to reopen the company’s first renewable energy facility after it temporarily closed in June last year to deal with a shareholder proxy effort.
The company hopes the facility, which generates 2.5MW of power from biomass resources, will be operational again by the middle of April 2010.
The plant, which was built in the centre of a commercial business park,…
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In North Carolina, US, the city of Charlotte’s first biomass power plant is due to be complete by 31 December.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved a $12 million (€8.87 million) 3.2MW proposed facility by Orbit Energy Filings with the commission that Orbit intends to sell the energy produced, a total of 23 gigawatt-hours annually, to Duke Energy for the next 20…
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A new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Suffolk, UK, will convert business food waste into bioenergy to heat homes and power cars.
The facility which will be the first of its kind to generate renewable energy for the gas grid, will be sited on land owned by Southwold-based independent brewery Adnams, which will use the facility to recycle its brewery waste. Food waste will be sourced from…
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The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January has meant a desperate lack of sanitation facilities but now Brazilian group Viva Rio is turning human excrement into biogas for use as fuel.
The Kay Nou camp in Port-au-Prince is one of many to have flourished in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince since the earthquake. The camps are absorbing many of the estimated 1 million people made…
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Vancouver-based Fortress Paper will buy a disused pulp mill in Quebec and spend $153 million (€111 million) to reopen it as a biomass plant.
A 25MW power plant fed by waste from its operations and from an extensive local network of chip and other biomass suppliers is expected to begin supplying electricity by late 2012. The company further plans to begin production of dissolving grade…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Jan Stambasky (JS), executive board member of the European Biogas Association, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
Founded just a year ago the association is growing fast, echoing the development…
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