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Feb 12, 2009
Waste to energy funding unveiled in Wales
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Feb 13, 2009
Texas-based Earth Biofuels has finalised funds for upgrades to its 10 mgy Oklahoma biodiesel production facility.
The transaction includes the acquisition of more than 350 storage tanks, with capacities ranging from 8,000 to 39,000 gallons.
Approximately 30 of the tanks will be installed at the company’s Durant facility with a total storage capacity of more than 1... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2009
Swedish power utility Vattenfall plans to convert its power plant facilities in Denmark to use large quantities of biomass fuel instead of coal.
Project MaxBio will replace up to 724,000 tonnes of coal a year, beginning in 2018. As a result, it will prevent at least 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
According to the company,... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
A palm oil processing facility will be built in the Mersey docklands, UK
London-based New Britain Palm Oils will build the plant on a six-acre site near Regent Road, Bootle.
A key factor at Merseyside was an agreement with Tate & Lyle to use existing nearby tanker storage capacity, the company says.
‘There is the deep water facility ideal for our tankers and... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
RWE Innogy and the Westphalia-Lippe Agricultural Association (WLV) have announced plans to construct and operate biogas plants run almost entirely on liquid manure.
The project will take place in Münster, Germany.
The fermentation residues that are created during the production of biogas will be processed in a newly developed, complex process.
All that will remain... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
Praj Industries’ cellulosic ethanol pilot plant at Praj Matrix in India has successfully demonstrated production of ethanol from corn cobs and sugarcane bagasse under varying operating conditions.
A new laboratory facility at Praj Matrix, the company’s research and development centre in Pune, India, began working on the company’s process in April 2008.
The Praj... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
According to The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of organic material per year that could be used to produce biogas.
Around 90 million tonnes of this material comes from manure and slurry.
Defra is launching a task force to help farmers and the water industry meet goals to produce energy from anaerobic... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2009
Solid Energy’s subsidiary Biodiesel New Zealand is proceeding with its development plans, increasing capacity at its existing Christchurch facility to 4 million litres a year, but reconsidering stage two of its plans.
In recognition of the economic conditions, the company is reviewing its next planned step to 15 million litres a year.
During 2009 Biodiesel New Zealand... [Read More]
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Feb 18, 2009
Switzerland-headquartered biodiesel producer Biopetrol has announced a major corporate restructuring, but will continue output at both its major German biodiesel plants on a short-time working basis.
The short-time basis is being prepared at its 200,000 tonne capacity biodiesel plant in Rostock alongside its previously announced short-time working basis for the 150,000... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2009
Energy company BP and cellulosic ethanol developer Verenium have announced the formation of a 50-50 joint venture to develop and commercialise cellulosic ethanol from non-food feedstocks.
The companies have agreed to commit $45 million (€35.7 million) in funding and assets to the joint venture company.
The joint venture company will initially focus on developing and... [Read More]
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Feb 19, 2009
Denmark-based renewable energy company BioGasol has received €10.4 million to help finance its 5 million litre (1.3 mgy) BornBioFuel cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant project in Bornholm, Denmark.
The sum was awarded by the Danish Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program.
BioGasol received €3.6 million from the agency in December... [Read More]
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Feb 19, 2009
Northumberland, UK-based biodiesel producer V-Fuels has entered administration owing to a combination of events borne from poor market conditions.
‘It doesn’t mean that as a site and as a business we are a dead duck. We are hoping that the business will be able to move forward, whether as V-Fuels or as another entity,’ V-Fuels site director John Moller comments.
The... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2009
UK-based Bentley Motors, one of the latest vehicle manufacturers to announce it is developing bioethanol-powered versions of its cars, is to give the keynote presentation at this year’s Biofuels International expo & conference.
The two day conference and exhibition will be held on the 27-28 May at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam.
The event aims to bring together... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2009
An early morning fire at Hardin County Fuel in Texas, US, caused an estimated $300,000 (€234,000) in equipment and building damage and has halted biofuels production.
Nearly all of the facility’s operating equipment was destroyed, along with the building it was being housed in on Friday 20 February.
Fuel being stored on the property was not damaged.
Biofuel contains... [Read More]
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Feb 25, 2009
The European Commission (EC) plans to propose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of biodiesel from the US.
The Commission, which oversees trade policy for the 27-country European Union, is due to propose the measures at a March meeting of EU national trade officials, known as the anti-dumping committee.
The anti-dumping duties would range from €2-19 per... [Read More]
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