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Nov 11, 2009
Ethanol surplus for 2010
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Nov 12, 2009
In Florida, US, Port Everglades wants to upgrade idled tanks to develop as an ethanol hub but finding a company to do the job has caused set-backs.
A Broward County selection committee in April had picked one contender, an affiliate of a Brazilian company. But after repeated objections, it switched in October to the protesting runner-up, an Oklahoma firm. In early November... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2009
Norway’s Borregaard has received €4 million in research grants from the EU, which will be used for demonstration plants within development projects connected to Borregaard's biorefinery concept.
The EU's seventh framework programme for R&D is offering altogether €57 million through the Joint Biorefinery Call during the period 2010-2014. More than... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2009
One biodiesel feedstock-rich nation is taking the unusual step and reducing its mandate targets.
Malaysian Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok says the country is likely to reduce its local biodiesel blend to B3 from the current B5 mandate, due to the slow usage and costly government subsidy.
Under the current mandate, the government... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2009
California’s status as the new green state has drawn the interests of two biodiesel producers.
Canada-based Sunx Energy will open a 21,500 square foot biodiesel plant, and San Diego-based Dynasty Energy will open a 20,164 square foot biodiesel plant, in the state.
‘It's always good to have green industries coming to town because it encourages other green industries... [Read More]
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Nov 13, 2009
The Government of Canada will invest up to C$77.75 million (€49.5 million) over seven years to help support ethanol production in Saskatchewan.
The sum will be injected into Terra Grain Fuels' ethanol facility in the province under the federal government's ecoENERGY for biofuels programme.
Terra Grain Fuels ethanol plant in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, currently... [Read More]
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Nov 2, 2009
Japan’s Nippon Oil has built the nation's first facility for making ethanol-based petrol additive ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE).
The petroleum industry plans to market ETBE-blend petrol, which burns more cleanly than regular petrol, nationwide from 2010 and have biofuel blends accounting for up to 20% of the country's annual petrol demand of roughly 1... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
US-food and agriculture giant Cargill has expanded its grain handling portfolio by purchasing assets of the former Altra Nebraska ethanol facility in
Carleton, Nebraska.
The plant became a victim of the crashing financial market when half way through construction in November 2007 the tools had to be put down.
‘This facility is a valuable asset to the entire region,... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Another foreign company is climbing the Brazilian ethanol ladder to create the second-largest sugar and ethanol group in the world.
France-based Louis Dreyfus' Brazilian affiliate Louis Dreyfus (LD) Commodities Bioenergia has bought the Brazilian sugar and ethanol group Santelisa Vale.
The combined company, LDC-SEV, will have 13 ethanol plants and 40 million tonnes... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Construction on one of the UK’s largest biomass to power generation projects is getting closer following environmental approval.
UK-based MGT Power plans to build a 295 megawatt (MW) wood-fuelled power station at Teesport, which received Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consent from the Marine and Fisheries Agency (MFA).
This formal consent together with its associated... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Following the opening of its factory in October this year, Brazilian company Grupo Ypioca is set to produce ethanol from sugarcane.
The Jaguaruana factory has installed capacity to produce 50 million litres of ethanol a year, or 90 million litres of the sugarcane derivative cachaca, making it the world's largest manufacturing facility of cachaca.
‘There is no... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
A debate in the UK parliament’s House of Commons has called for an amendment to current UK biofuels legislation to encourage the use of used cooking oil as a feedstock.
Biodiesel manufactured from used cooking oil is one of the most sustainable renewable fuels available, using a waste product to produce energy and reduce lifecycle carbon emissions by up to 90%.
However,... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Ireland-based Greenfield Project Management has entered into an agreement to sell its ethanol output to LUKoil’s trading and supply company Litasco.
Greenfield’s first bioenergy complex in Belarus will initially produce 150,000 metric tonnes of ethanol a year, rising to 450,000 tonnes as phases 2 and 3 are completed. Litasco intends to blend Greenfield’s ethanol... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
Bioenergy company Ineos Bio has got the green ball rolling on a project to convert locally-generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity.
The green player has begun a £3.5 million (€3.9 million) feasibility study, which includes detailed engineering design work for a plant at the company’s Seal... [Read More]
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Oct 29, 2009
China Integrated Energy plans to sell 8 million shares of the company's stock in a public follow-on offering in order to fund the expansion of its biodiesel production capacity, wholesale distribution and retail gas station businesses, and working capital and general corporate purposes.
The oil and gas company said it plans to grant the underwriters of the offering... [Read More]
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