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Feb 9, 2009
USDA looks at GE corn for ethanol
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Feb 9, 2009
Texas-based oil company Valero Energy is expected to purchase several ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy.
The $280 million (€216 million) bid from Valero Energy would buy a group of VeraSun properties, including its Aurora plant, if no other bidders arise before a March auction.
VeraSun also plans to sell the rest of its plants this year, primarily to big oil companies... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2009
Finland-based paper company UPM Kymmene and renewable fuel supplier Lassila & Tikanoja are testing the use of producing ethanol from the pulp-based waste created by the paper industry.
During the pilot tests ethanol and energy are produced from commercial and industrial waste, such as paper, cardboard and wood.
By developing waste processing units, energy company... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2009
UK-based Local Generation has announced plans for a food-waste to energy plant in Cambridgeshire, UK.
The food recycling company is investing £9-12 million (€10.3-13.7 million) in an anaerobic digestion system, which will produce up to 2.5MW of power to supply 1,500 local homes and businesses.
Local Generation intends to submit a planning application for the site... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2009
Bharat Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of India’s state-owned oil company Bharat Petroleum (BPCL), will invest Rs.21.31 billion (€335 million) in a biodiesel project in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The project will use jatropha as feedstock.
BPCL will work in five districts: Kanpur, Jhansi, Laltpur, Chitrakoot and Sultanpur.
The company expects the project to start by... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2009
Biorefining technology company Chempolis has commissioned a third-generation biorefinery demonstration plant in Oulu, Finland.
With a total investment of €15 million the biorefinery is expected to reach full production during Q2.
‘The demonstration plant represents the third-generation because it can use the entire vegetable matter and produce a number of biomass-based... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2009
Japanese companies including Nippon Oil and Toyota will establish a research body to develop next-generation cellulose-derived biofuels.
The consortium has set the target of producing 250,000 kilolitres (1.6 million barrels) of ethanol by March 2014, at 40 yen (€0.03) per litre (about €54 a barrel) by 2015.
The other firms in the project are Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2009
Lignol Energy and Suncor Energy have cancelled their $80 million (€61.6 million) cellulosic ethanol plant in Grand Junction, Colorado, US.
The Canadian companies have backed out given the instability of energy prices, the uncertainty in the capital markets and overall poor market conditions.
Lignol and Suncor announced the partnership in October 2008.
The plant had... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2009
Thailand-based palm oil crushing company Vichitbhan Group is investing almost THB2 billion (€44.3 million) to set up biogas and biomass energy businesses.
Vichitbhan Group runs separate palm oil crushing mills under its Vichitbhan Palm Oil and Vichitbhan Plantation companies.
Krisada Chavananand, MD of Vichitbhan Palm Oil, says the investment is part of a five-year... [Read More]
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Jan 19, 2009
In Europe in mid-January sunflower methyl ester (SME) was trading at a $200/tonne (€155/tonne) premium to Ice gasoil for February dates fob ARA, despite reports of a prompt oversupply, a report by Argus Biofuels finds.
Bid/ask spreads for fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) zero was broadly around a $190/t premium to the Ice futures screen.
Further forward activity on the... [Read More]
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Jan 23, 2009
Biodiesel producer Bionor will invest US$209 million (€163 million) in a project to produce 300 million litres of biodiesel a year in the state of Paraiba, Brazil.
The investments are scheduled for the first half of 2009, with land purchase and the installation of the first seedling nursery and a laboratory already defined.
The project will use the oleaginous plant... [Read More]
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Jan 23, 2009
Nebraska, US-based ethanol producer Green Plains Renewable Energy has acquired a majority interest in Houston-based biofuel terminal operator Blendstar.
Green Plains acquired 51% of Blendstar from Bioverda U.S. Holdings for $9 million (€7 million).
Blendstar currently operates terminal facilities in Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville and Birmingham.... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2009
Sierra Leone has launched a $200 million (€154 million) renewable energy project, which includes the production of ethanol.
The project’s sugarcane plantation will take 20,000 hectares of land and the ethanol plant will produce more than 1.2 million litres of ethanol a year.
In addition, a 30MW power plant will also be in operation. The project’s funding has been... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2009
The Netherlands-based biodiesel producer Solarix, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and technology company Yellow Diesel have received a €1 million subsidy for developing new biofuels from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, as part of the EOS KTO programme (short term energy research).
The funding forms part of a €1.5 million R&D project for synthesising... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2009
The first industrial biodiesel production plant in Latvia opened on 22 January.
The plant constructed by BDI – BioDiesel International is located in the port area of Ventspils with an annual production capacity of 100,000 tonnes.
The plant will use vegetable raw materials coming from the Baltic states, the Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. It is also capable of processing... [Read More]
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