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Apr 10, 2012
Ventura receives $2 million in funding
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Apr 11, 2012
BioPower Operations, a company that grows, produces and sells biomass and its byproducts, has become a public company, listing its shares on the stock market.
The company currently has plans to produce and sell biomass oils in the short term and in the long term receive licenses to grow trees and bamboo that can also be converted into oils, biofuels, animal feed or electricity.
Robert... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
Eco-Energy, an alternative energy company, says it is to build an ethanol unit train and storage facility which will distribute biofuels to the Atlanta, Georgia area in the US.
The train terminal will be able to distribute more than 400,000 barrels of ethanol a month, using its automated loading system.
The rail system will be able to receive up to 96 rail car unit trains... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2012
The Iowa Department of Revenue says that the biodiesel sold in 2011 was nearly twice as much that was sold in 2012.
During last year, the total amount of pure biodiesel that was sold in the state amounted to 13.9 million gallons, whereas the year before it only reached 7.4 million gallons.
In the region, where there are 13 biodiesel plants which produced 175 million gallons... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2012
Ice cream company Mackie’s of Scotland is building a plant that will convert its slurry into biofuel, which will be used to power the company’s Aberdeenshire facility.
Once the anaerobic digester is installed, the fairy farm in Westertown, Rothienorman, will run completely on renewable energy.
Scientists from the Edinburgh Napier University’s Biofuel... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2012
Wilmar Indonesia, the biggest palm oil producer in the country, plans to produce palm oil-derived aviation biofuel in a plant in Gresik, East Java, thanks to an investment of around $80 million (€61 million).
Working with Elevance Renewable Sciences through its subsidiary PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, it will be the first biofuel plant for aviation fuel in Indonesia.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 13, 2012
Canadian air carrier Porter Airlines is due to fly a commercial, biofuel-powered aircraft later this month, making it the nation's first carrier to do this.
The flight comes after Porter's biofuel test flight, which took place in February earlier this year.
Porter will operate one of its Bombardier Q400 turboprop airliners on a 50/50 blend of biojet and conventional fossil... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2012
Regus Advisors has invested in Algae International so that it can build its first $2 million algae to biofuel development in California.
Regus, a private global investment banking firm, says the plant will be a large scale project will use CO₂, fuel cells, nitrates, phosphates, sunlight and algae to produce the biofuels.
Regus’ president, Mervyn Price, explains:... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2012
Following the success of the Qantas biofuel powered flight, Algae.Tec says that in the future most of the Australian biofuels could be derived from algae that is grown locally.
The biofuel flight, which saw the plane fly between Sydney and Adelaide, was powered on cooking oil-derived biodiesel which was supplied by SkyNRG. However, Algae.Tec says it would be beneficially... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2012
JOil, a scientific bioenergy crop developer of a new generation of jatropha, has achieved first-year yields in its India field trials of over 2 tons of seeds per hectare.
'Our [JO S1 and JO S2] seedlings started flowering three months after planting and in five months yielded their first harvest of fruit. Most current jatropha plants have no fruiting in the first year... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2012
The refining and marketing venture jointly owned by affiliates of Shell and Saudi Aramco, Motiva Enterprises (Motiva), is planning to convert its High Sulfur Diesel Heating Oil (2000 ppm) to Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULDS) (15 ppm) at its 5,000,000+ barrel Sewaren Terminal, located in New Jersey.
The conversion has been prompted by a State of New York mandate which... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2012
Verbio (Vereinigte BioEnergie) is continuing to expand its sales of biomethane. VNG (Verbundnetz Gas) is now selling verbiogas, a fuel derived solely from agricultural residue, at all 10 of the natural gas filling stations belonging to VNG-T (VNG-Erdgastankstellen, a wholly owned subsidiary of VNG AG).
Furthermore, VNG has opened 2 natural gas fuelling stations in Berlin,... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2012
Developer of a proprietary process to produce petrol and other fuels from biomass and natural gas, Primus Green Energy, has announced the completion of its third round of funding. IC Green Energy, the renewable energy sector of Israel Corp, has invested $12 million (€9.18 million) in the company, raising the total funding since 2007 to $40 million (30.62 million).
'IC... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2012
The throughput of biofuels in the Port of Rotterdam decreased to 4.3 million tonnes in 2011. This was a 6% decrease compared to 2010.
The throughput of ethanol fell 15%, from 2 to 1.7 million tonnes with incoming cargo dropping from 1.2 to 1.1 million tonnes. Along with a decrease in imports from Brazil, there has been almost an entire loss of ethanol imports from Spain... [Read More]
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Mar 20, 2012
In the city of Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario, Canada, MSE Enviro-Tech has signed a two-year agreement with Wardlaw Fuels to supply the Transit Commission with biodiesel for its fleets of buses.
Under the agreement, MSE Enviro-Tech will source the biodiesel and fossil diesel. Wardlaw Fuels will then collect the biodiesel and blend it with petrol diesel to make B5-B20 blends.
The... [Read More]
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