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Jul 7, 2010
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Jul 8, 2010
After recently acquiring joint venture operations in Central Java, Indonesia, renewable energy company Jatoil has secured its first sale of a commercial quantity of crude jatropha oil.
The sale is under a new four-year off-take agreement with Jatoil’s partner Waterland International, covering all crude jatropha oil produced from the first 1,000 hectares of the project.... [Read More]
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Jul 9, 2010
A joint venture between Everpure Biodiesel Coop. and Zuraw Technologies has seen the construction of a new biodiesel plant in Acton, Ontario, Canada.
The facility means that Everpure can now collect waste vegetable oil from eateries around the local area before Zuraw Technologies converts it into biodiesel in the new plant.
Prior to the construction of the biofuel production... [Read More]
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Jul 9, 2010
Oil producer Petrobras, construction firm Camargo Corrêa and Mitsui & Co. have secured a preliminary environmental license to construct an ethanol pipeline in Brazil.
Expected to cost $1.1 billion (€900 million) to build, the pipeline will be 337 miles (542km) long.
The pipeline will be ready for use by Q3 2011 and will connect mills located in the states of... [Read More]
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Jul 13, 2010
A petroleum products terminal in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, US, has changed hands with the new owners considering future biodiesel production.
El Maniel Energy, a subsidiary of El Maniel International (EMLL), acquired the 24 million gallon terminal in eastern Pennsylvania, which includes five acres of land, buildings and equipment valued at over $2 million (€1.59... [Read More]
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Jun 10, 2010
In Berkeley County, South Carolina, US, coal brokerage firm Converse and Co. is currently developing a $4 million (€3.3 million) biofuels plant that, once completed later on this year, will use waste oil collected from eateries for the production of solid biofuel.
Now North Carolina-based waste-to-energy firm EcoPlus has signed a multi-year contract with Converse to... [Read More]
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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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