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Jul 27, 2009
Italians to produce biodiesel from seaweed
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Jul 28, 2009
Pakistan’s 27 million acres of saline land provide an ideal medium to cultivate algae for biofuel production, according to Ehsan Ali of Mie University of Japan.
Various organisations are already aiming to produce biofuel from jatropha and castor oil cultivated in Pakistan, but the use of algae as a feedstock would have numerous benefits for the country, Ali said in... [Read More]
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Jul 28, 2009
US-based Aston Renewable Resources has signed a deal with French nuclear power expert Areva to contribute €100 million to the development of biomass plants across India.
Astonfield will contribute about €60 million to the project, which is rumoured to include 10 planned biomass facilities with a capacity of about 10MW each. Construction of the first facility in West... [Read More]
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Jul 28, 2009
The global biofuels market is set to grow by an average of 12.3% a year between 2007 and 2017, according to a report by industry research specialists RNCOS.
Global ethanol and biodiesel production will grow at 6.04% and 5% a year respectively between 2008 and 2019.
In the near future, the increase in biofuel production will largely be driven by ethanol from Brazil... [Read More]
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Jul 29, 2009
Irish green energy specialist Greenfield Project Management plans to produce bioethanol from sugar beets grown in Chernobyl soil too radioactive for food crops.
Despite official warnings, many local people continue to grow food in the soil around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The radiation concentrates into roots and stalks which, after harvesting, are ploughed... [Read More]
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Jul 29, 2009
All seven bioethanol plants US oil refiner Valero purchased on the bankruptcy of VeraSun are now running at capacity and making a profit.
Valero bought the plants in March after VeraSun Energy was bankrupted by contracts locking the producer into paying above market price for corn. Four of the plants remained operating throughout the bankruptcy. Two were restarted by... [Read More]
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Jul 29, 2009
Massachusetts-based startup Joule Biotechnologies has unveiled a revolutionary new process for converting carbon dioxide and sunlight to transportation fuel without the use of biomass.
The company’s patent-pending so-called Helioculture process utilises genetically-engineered photosynthetic organisms: it requires no agricultural land or fresh water and is capable... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2009
Brazil’s largest producer of sugar and ethanol Cosan has signed a three-year contract with Mitsubishi to export bioethanol to the Japanese market starting in 2010.
Cosan will ship around 80,000 kl of bioethanol a year, reports say. Mitsubishi will the import it as the raw material for making ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE), a petroladditive used for production of... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2009
Consent has been given to one of the world’s largest biomass plants from the UK Government.
Approval for the £500 million (€587 million) Tees Renewable Energy Plant being built by MGT Power was given under Section 36 of the Electricity Act.
The 300MW plant, which will enter commercial operation in 2012, will save 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year and... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2009
Management, engineering and development consultancy Mott MacDonald has completed a report on Thailand’s eight-year programme working to promote the renewable energy sector, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented through the Energy for Environment Foundation.
The programme which includes a biomass energy focus has seen by many in the industry... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2009
Only a few slots remain for the upcoming Biofuels International Asia expo & conference, being held in Singapore on 19-20 November 2009.
After the success of Biofuels International expo & conference in Europe in 2008, leading global publication Biofuels International magazine widened its portfolio to include Biofuels International Asia expo & conference.
Confirmed... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2009
Exxon Mobil has finally joined the likes of BP in entering the biofuels industry. The US energy company will make its first major investment in biofuels in a $600 million (€426 million) partnership with biotech company Synthetic Genomics to develop transportation fuels from algae.
A late-comer to the green fuels sector, one of the company's requirements was finding... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2009
Following recent reports of poor output in Spain and Germany, the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) has released figures showing EU capacity climbed more than 35% in 2008.
EBB capacity will grow again this year although half the plants are idle due to poor demand, the producers group says.
The European production of biodiesel had reached 7.76 million tonnes last year putting... [Read More]
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Jul 17, 2009
Canadian biodiesel producer Milligan Bio-Tech will open its new crushing and production facility on 23 July in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Canada’s pending Federal Renewable Fuels Bill C-33, requiring a 2% renewable fuel content in diesel by 2012, has ushered in the need for greater production volumes.
Milligan’s products include biodiesel that meets US and European quality... [Read More]
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Jul 17, 2009
Plantation Energy, Australia’s largest manufacturer and exporter of wood pellets, has signed a three-year AUD 60 million (€34 million) supply agreement with Essent Trading, an international merchant energy trading company based in Switzerland.
The agreement between Plantation Energy and Essent Trading comes only days after the company announced its first export deal,... [Read More]
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