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Jan 27, 2009
USDA to help optimise ethanol industry
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Jan 27, 2009
The sale of petrol with 7% ethanol content is anticipated for March in Costa Rica following a pilot plan conducted in the north-western area Guanacaste.
Biofuels in the country will use a number of feedstocks. Ethanol is made from sugarcane and cassava, while biodiesel is extracted from oil-producing plants such as castor bean and jatropha.
Roberto Dobles, minister of... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2009
US ethanol producer Poet may bid on plants owned by VeraSun Energy during an auction to be held in March, CEO Jeff Broin says.
Earlier in January VeraSun obtained approval from a judge to auction seven of the eight ethanol plants it had bought from U.S. BioEnergy in 2008 for approximately $700 million (€527 million).
Poet first expressed an interest in making investments... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2009
Brazil exported a record-high 5.16 billion litres of ethanol fuel in 2008, up 45.7% from 2007, the Ministry of Mines and Energy reports.
The amount of ethanol fuel exported in 2008 was over two times higher than the exports of petrol made by state-owned oil giant Petrobras in the same period.
The fuel sold for $0.47 (€0.35) per litre in 2008, up 16% from 2007. The... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2009
Energy companies Shell and BP have joined the British government in pumping £27 million (€29 million) into research on biofuels that steer away from food crops.
It is Britain's largest public investment in bioenergy to date, and includes input from a total of 15 businesses.
The sum will fund research at six centres around Britain with the goal of replacing petrol... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2009
The UK Government has set a higher target for the use of biofuels in vehicles for 2009-10.
The initial 3% limit deliberated by the Government has been lifted to 3.25%, using feedstock sources such as palm oil and sugar beet.
Transport Minister Lord Adonis has set a slightly higher target in response to a legal loophole which meant less renewable fuel was supplied than... [Read More]
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Jan 29, 2009
ECB Enviro North America and StormFisher Biogas have formed a partnership to build a 3.2 megawatt biogas plant in Lethbridge, Alberta, one of Canada’s major agricultural centres.
Once operational, the plant will create enough energy to power more than 3,000 homes and offset the carbon dioxide equivalent of more than 17,000 tonnes every year.
Biogas plants naturally... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2009
Indonesia's government is planning to pay a subsidy to biofuel producers this year to ensure the stability of the market.
Biofuel became more expensive than crude oil-based fuel after oil prices dived more than 70% from their peak in July last year.
Under the plan, if prices of biofuel products are higher than crude oil-based fuels, the government will pay a subsidy... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2009
The five railroad trains at Disneyland in the US began running on biodiesel made with waste vegetable oil from the resort’s restaurants and hotels on 28 January.
Park officials tried a soyabean-based biodiesel starting in 2007 on the trains that circle a one-mile perimeter of the park. The project was abandoned in November 2008 following issues with storage underground.
Officials... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2009
Gas made from waste food or sewage could heat half of the UK’s homes, a study by Ernst and Young on behalf of utility firm National Grid finds.
Biodegradable waste could be used to make biomethane which would be piped into the gas grid, and would help achieve targets to source 15% of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Biogas, which is already being produced... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2009
Japan Airlines completed a 90-minute flight powered by fuel with a 50% biodiesel blend on 30 January.
The flight is the first to use camelina oil, which made up 84% of the biofuel blend. The remainder was less than 16% jatropha oil and the rest algae oil.
The camelina blend was used in the No. 3 engine made by Pratt & Whitney. The Boeing 747-300 aircraft took off... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2009
UK-based food waste recycler Prosper de Mulder (PDM) has announced plans to spend £110 million (€123 million) over the next three years on waste to energy plants.
The company will construct five new food waste-to-energy plants using both biomass and anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
PDM will secure 17,000 tonnes a year of waste from UK supermarket Sainsbury's... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2009
California-headquartered Sirona Fuels has acquired producer Blue Sky Biofuels.
Blue Sky Biofuels’ Oakland, California-based biodiesel refinery is permitted for 15 million gallons a year and is currently producing ASTM-spec biodiesel from recycled cooking oil.
Sirona has implemented plans for the rapid expansion of its used cooking oil collection business, and by the... [Read More]
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Jan 6, 2009
PetroAlgae, a US-based developer of systems to produce biofuel from algae, announced that it has closed on a $10 million (€7.4 million) capital raise through the sale of approximately 3.2 million of newly-issued shares of common stock to two existing investors.
The company said that the proceeds from the stock sale will be used to help finance the commercial launch... [Read More]
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Jan 7, 2009
US-headquartered Magellan Midstream Partners has added ethanol blending capabilities at two Texas-based terminals, including a third truck rack lane at its terminal in Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth terminal now has 18,000 barrels of ethanol storage. In addition, the facility can receive ethanol via truck through an automated off-loading system that is open 24 hours a day.
The... [Read More]
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