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Nov 4, 2009
LUKoil eyes Greenfield ethanol
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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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Oct 26, 2009
India is set to fix the price of biodiesel for purchase by oil companies.
India’s government is likely to fix a price of Rs 34 (€0.49) a litre after biodiesel producing companies agreed to sell the fuel at that rate in a recent meeting between the government's representatives and industry players.
‘Most of the biodiesel plants are either running at 5% capacity... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Tri-City Energy looks to sell its 5 million gallon a year biodiesel plant in Keokuk, Iowa, US, to BFSG International of Zurich, Switzerland.
The acquisition will be finalised through Tomorrow’s Choice in Energy, or TC Energy, a wholly- owned subsidiary of BFSG. The sale includes Keokuk Glycerin in which Tri-City Energy has a 51% stake.
Upon finalisation the plant... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Finland-based fuel company St1 will build more than 20 ethanol facilities by 2020 in a programme totalling €400 million.
St1 opened its fifth ethanol plant in October in Lahti, on track for its 300 million litre a year target.
The Lahti facility uses waste from a nearby brewery as feedstock.... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Energy leading US state California is perhaps not every ethanol producer’s choice.
BlueFire Ethanol planned to build its second cellulosic ethanol facility in the state, but development and licensing concerns, coupled with the challenging business climate in California caused company officials to petition the Department of Energy for a site change to Mississippi.
The... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
The year is 2013, and the place: Brazil. UK energy major BP will be instrumental in the deployment of large-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities.
Its first port of call, however, will be north of the border. BP’s first second generation ethanol plant will be constructed in the US next year, with the technology being transferred to its plants in Brazil after operations... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Spain-based ethanol company Abengoa Bioenergy intends to bring three new ethanol plants online by Q1 next year.
The addition will boost its global production capacity to about 2.6 billion litres.
The company is building ethanol
plants in Illinois and Indiana, US, each with a capacity of 380 million litres a year, and one in Rotterdam with a capacity of 480 million.... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Figures for the first half of 2009 show an improvement in Germany’s bioethanol market.
The industry suffered a stagnant production spell in 2008, but now Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) figures for the first half of 2009 show that the German bioethanol industry is building up with demand rising almost four-fold compared to 2008.
New legislation... [Read More]
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Nov 4, 2009
The relationship between the US and EU biodiesel industries is a sinking ship.
EU producers, voiced by the European Biodiesel Board, have raised questions over the activity of US biodiesel producers, suspecting them of exporting a new blend to Europe to avoid EU tariffs.
The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) says US exporters of the fuel may have begun shipping a blend... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Rwanda’s government is teaming-up with the US and UK on a biodiesel project.
The $35 million (€23.5 million) project between the Rwandan Government and US firm Eco-Fuel Global and the UK’s Eco-Fuel Positive will use the non-edible shrub jatropha as feedstock.
The two firms will lease 10,000 hectares of land near Akagera National Park in the Eastern Province to... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
Peterborough Renewable Energy (PREL) has received approval from the Department of Energy to build the first Energy Park in the UK, which will eventually generate enough green electricity to power 60,000 homes.
The Energy Park will be built in Peterborough and achieve 4,000 MW of biomass power needed to meet the renewable requirement for 2020 for the UK.
The UK needs... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2009
The Hungarian Development Bank’s ELMIB plans to build a HUF 9 billion (€32.6 million) wood industry waste-fuelled power plant in Salgótarján.
The plant will generate 200,000 GJ of heat, or enough for 60% of the city's district heating demand, and 12.5MW of electricity, enough for all 20,000 of the city's homes. The project is due to be online in Q4 2012.... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2009
Reports reach us from Stockholm, Sweden, that an annual cull of thousands of rabbits is fuelling a heating plant.
The so-called Biofuel Bunnies cause mayhem in the capital’s green spaces, so the 3,000 culled this year are providing green energy to homes instead.
Hunter Tommy Tuvunger says: ‘Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough, a contractor... [Read More]
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