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Jun 10, 2010
EcoPlus to buy solid biofuel from Converse and Co.
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Jun 11, 2010
In Lakeland, Florida, US, fuel supplier Fleetwing Corporation now sells E85 ethanol from its first public ethanol pump.
Comprising of a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% petrol, the fuel is available to owners of flex-fuel vehicles only. Fleetwing also distributes E85 to Lakeland city in bulk amounts for use in its fleet vehicles.
However, since the ethanol pump was installed... [Read More]
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Jun 11, 2010
On Thursday 10 June 2010 the EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger outlined strict biofuels plans, which have been described as the ‘most stringent in the world.’
Announcing the measures in Brussels Oettinger said: ‘In the years to come biofuels are the main alternative to petrol and diesel used in transport which produces more than 20% of the greenhouse gas... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
High production of maize ethanol in the US, meaning less price-competitive ethanol, has forced Brazil to cut its exports to the world’s largest producer.
The US has no intention to lower the barriers for the entrance of the Brazilian product in that country, the head of Brazil's Development, Industry and Trade Ministry, Miguel Jorge, says.
‘We do not have a... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
UK-based bioethanol producer Ineos Bio has received a £7.3 million (€8.77 million) grant from One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change towards the £52 million construction cost of its advanced bioethanol from waste plant.
The plant, to be located at the Ineos Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley, is designed to produce 24,000 tonnes per year (30... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
The Berlin Air Show, which was held on 8-13 June, was the perfect opportunity for aircraft company EADS to show just how far its biofuels research has progressed.
A Diamond DA42 took to the air powered only by algae biofuel.
Jean Botti, CTO at EADS, said: ‘This opens up the feasibility of carbon-neutral flights.’
According to EADS minimal adjustments had to be... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
The Indonesian government is issuing a subsidy for the distribution of biofuels when the biofuel market price is higher than the market price for oil-based fuel.
The subsidy is for the distribution of biofuel ranging between Rp 2,000 and Rp 2,500 (€0.18-0.22) per litre in the 2011 state budget.
Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Darwin Zahedy Saleh says the subsidy... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
US agri-giant and biofuels producer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is cleaning up its emissions with the assistance of a Department of Energy (DoE) grant.
The $99.2 million (€80.9 million) grant is for a commercial-scale carbon sequestration project to capture and store 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from ADM’s ethanol facility in Decatur, Illinois.
The... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2010
While the US ethanol industry still awaits news of an E15 blending allowance exports of the fuel remain high.
The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) says April ethanol exports reached 40.8 million gallons, including both denatured and undenatured non-beverage ethanol. That volume compares to 48.3 million gallons in March. Year-to-date exports are 124.3 million gallons,... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2010
Covanta, a US company which incinerates municipal solid waste to generate electricity, and its partner Global Energy have completed construction of a commercial pilot municipal solid waste to diesel plant in the US.
The two companies signed a contract to set up the plant two and a half years ago.
Covanta will operate hundreds of facilities, which will use Global Energy's... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2010
The world’s largest producer of corn-based ethanol will see a reduction in carbon emissions by 111% over petrol when it opens its first planned commercial cellulosic ethanol plant.
This means Poet’s cellulosic ethanol actually has negative emissions; it will offset more greenhouse gas emissions than it produces.
The analysis, compiled by Air Improvement Resource... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2010
In an attempt to boost the use of ethanol as a vehicle fuel, South Dakota, US, is to award a $1 million (€1.2 million) grant to a possible 100 ethanol blender pumps at fuel stations across the state.
The funding came from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act incentive and will be used to fit an additional 49 filling stations with around 100 blender pumps in 40... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2010
After it began construction earlier this year the Bahamas Waste biodiesel production facility is expected to be fully operational by July this year.
When up and running the waste collection company’s $750,000 (€606,440) plant will see the company’s 50 strong fleet of vehicles switch from fossil fuels to being powered by biodiesel.
‘I am hoping that we will... [Read More]
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Jun 18, 2010
Dedicated to converting greenhouse gases into biofuels Tomorrow Biofuels is to construct a pilot plant in Cranston, Rhode Island, US, to do just that.
Tomorrow’s first plant will capture gases emitted from an adjacent power plant and utilise them to enhance the growing time of algae.
Oil will then be extracted from the algae and converted into biodiesel before being... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2010
The rubbish collectors of the city of Anchorage, Alaska, have begun running their rubbish trucks on biodiesel sourced from waste cooking oil which is picked up during their rounds.
Alaska Waste’s plant, which cost $3 million (€2.4 million) to construct, was unveiled on 17 June this year and has already begun producing the biofuel for use in its trucks.
Alaska Waste... [Read More]
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