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Agave, a plant normally used to produce tequila, has been found to offer significant advantages as a biofuel feedstock.
The crop can be grown on marginal agricultural land, while thriving in dry environments and yielding high sugar content, according to a report from the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, entitled 'Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas analysis for agave-derived…
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Designed to transport offshore wind farm structures and energy wood, it seems only right that the 105m long by 19m beam Aura II vessel is capable of reducing carbon emissions too.
Shipbuilding company STX Finland has contracted Wärtsilä, a company dedicated to power solutions for the marine and energy sectors, to install its engines on board the ship, which can run on biofuel.…
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In the US, biofuels company AE Biofuels has completed the acquisition of Zymetis, a Maryland-based biotechnology company that develops products for the renewable chemicals and advanced fuels industries.
Now a wholly owned subsidiary of AE Biofuels, Zymetis holds four granted patents and more than 10 pending patents on the Z-microbe, a marine organism that was originally discovered consuming plant…
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BioJet International, a US-headquartered company dedicated to renewable jet fuel and related products in the aviation and transportation sectors, and the University of the West Indies Cave Hill (UWI-Cave Hill) Campus in Barbados have joined forces for a biosciences research and commercial project.
The agreement will see BioJet financially support research at UWI-Cave Hill, which will test and…
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In Hawaii, biodiesel producer Aina Koa Pono is developing a biofuel plant and has awarded Aecom Technology with the EPC management contract.
Upon completion, the $350 million (€245 million) production facility will produce biofuel from a variety of biomass feedstocks, including invasive plants, for use in a number of applications, including transport and power plants.
Most of the biofuel…
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In the Mexican state of Morelos, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) has installed a pilot plant for the production of biodiesel from jatropha.
The facility has been developed to produce 3,000 litres a month of biodiesel, according to project director Jorge Martinez Herrera.
The National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) and the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) are backing…
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Choren Industries, a biofuel technology company headquartered in Feiberg, Germany, has started bankruptcy proceedings, along with its two German subsidiaries Choren Fuel Freiberg and Choren Components.
Choren USA and Choren China have not yet been affected by the insolvency.
Choren was currently commissioning a demonstration plant in Feriberg, which was to produce second generation ethanol using…
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In the US, ethanol producer Poet has been offered a conditional commitment for a $105 million (€75 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DoE).
If finalised, the loan will go towards building a biofuel production plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa, that will convert corncobs, leaves, husks and stalks into 25 million gallons a year of cellulosic ethanol.
'This project will help…
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'Brazil ended trade-distorting subsidies for ethanol more than a decade ago and eliminated its ethanol tariff early last year. We are pleased that this agreement would have the United States do the same. As the world's top producers of ethanol, the US and Brazil should lead by example in creating a free market for clean, renewable energy.'
This is a statement released by the Brazilian Sugarcane…
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In the US, biofuels company Sundrop Fuels and Chesapeake NG Ventures (CNGV), a wholly owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy, have struck a deal that will see Sundrop break ground on a commercial demonstration facility to produce bio-based transport fuel from cellulosic materials.
The deal, which closed on 11 July 2011, will see CNGV invest $155 million (€110 million) in Sundrop. Current…
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Renewable Energy Group (REG), the largest biodiesel producer in the US, has finalised the acquisition of the majority of SoyMor Biodiesel's Albert Lea, Minnesota assets.
The assets include the company's biodiesel plant and the soya lecithin facility assets of SoyMor Cooperative in exchange for common stock and the assumption of certain liabilities.
The biodiesel plant has been out of service…
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Germany-based bioethanol producer CropEnergies has released its first quarter results for the 2011/12 financial year.
Revenues for Q1 reached €132.1 million – a 41% increase on the previous year's €93.5 million in revenues. The operating profit also increased, from €2.4 million to €15.3 million.
The production of bioethanol increased by 14% in Q1 2011/12 to 157,000m3,…
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Virgin Australia, Richard Branson’s airline, is to fuel its planes with biofuel derived from gum trees.
In the first project of its kind in the world, the airline has partnered with the Renewable Oil Corporation, Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation (DYMTF) and Future Farm Industries Co-operative Research Centre (FFI CRC), to process eucalyptus trees into fuel in a Western Australian-based…
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In the US, Western Wisconsin Energy's board of directors has decided to sell the biofuel plant.
The company was set up in 2003 and in 2006 finished building its 40 million gallon a year ethanol plant. Today, the Western Wisconsin Energy plant can produce 55 million gallons of ethanol a year.
Tours of the plant will be taking place between 1 August and 12 August.
Ascendant Financial Partners has…
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