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Jan 20, 2009
JBS to open Nebraska biogas plant
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Jan 20, 2009
Mississippi Investment Petroleum has announced plans to build a third-generation biodiesel refinery at the Port of Aberdeen, Mississippi, in the US.
The Madison-based company began preparing the site in late 2008, with 90% of the US manufactured refinery equipment being custom fabricated for the site.
The project will be completed in three phases. The first phase of... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2009
Indian state Gujarat’s Energy Development Agency (GEDA) has given approval to private groups for setting up biomass power plants in 25 districts of the state.
The approvals amount to a combined generation of 317MW of energy.
‘The first of its kind power plant in the state that uses 300 tonnes of biomass a day such as fuel cotton stalks, sesame stalks and groundnut... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
The US will fall short of the Renewable Fuels Standard, the government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) warns.
The country will only blend about 30 billion gallons of fuels like corn-based ethanol and advanced fuels into petrol by 2022, 17% short of the US mandate of 36 billion gallons by that year, the EIA forecasts.
‘The key risk factor is the rate... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
Cuba will install a modern biogas industrial plant in central Cienfuegos province in 2009.
The plant will generate electricity using the excrement of pigs from the General Swine
Complex in the town of Palmira, and forms the beginning of a national programme.
It is estimated that only 50% of more than 700 biogas plants in the country are in operation, but efforts are... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
The European Union (EU) has granted £5 million (€5.1 million) to a Scotland, UK-led project to develop marine-based biofuels.
The Scottish Association for Marine Sciences in Oban will lead development work with partners from Ireland.
They will look at the viability of using marine biomass from seaweed and algae as an alternative to agri-fuel production from land-based... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
UK-based Bentley Motors is developing bioethanol-powered versions of its large engine models.
The car manufacturer also targets a cut in carbon dioxide emissions from its range by 40% within three years.
Bentley is working to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions across its fleet: its output is currently an average 400g/km.
Bentley will unveil its first bioethanol-powered... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is making available up to $200 million (€140 million) for advanced biofuel pilot refineries.
The funds could be awarded to up to 12 projects over the next six years.
If deployed on a large scale, the commercial facilities could produce volumes that would contribute significantly to the new national renewable-fuels mandate.
‘The... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
Poet Biorefining - Laddonia, Missouri is undergoing a $2 million (€1.4 million) expansion that will increase the plant’s capacity and provide a larger market for locally produced corn.
Work has already begun on installation of a sixth fermenter at the plant. It is expected to be completed in April 2009.
Poet Biorefining - Laddonia was built in September 2006 with... [Read More]
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Dec 29, 2008
BioWanze, the Belgian subsidiary of Germany-based ethanol producer CropEnergies, has started production at its next-generation bioethanol plant in Wanze, Belgium.
The bioethanol plant, the largest in Belgium, will produce up to 300,000m³ of bioethanol a year from wheat and sugar syrups.
The manufacturing process, which uses biomass as a primary energy source, lowers... [Read More]
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Dec 30, 2008
A new agreement between Pacific West Energy and Kaua'i Island Utility Co-op (KUIC) in Hawaii looks likely to advance plans for a sugar-ethanol plant on Kauai, which could become the first sugar-based ethanol plant in the US.
Washington, US-based Pacific West intends to retrofit Gay & Robinson's Kaumakani sugar mill to produce 15 million gallons a year of... [Read More]
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Dec 30, 2008
An Air New Zealand passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight on Tuesday 30 December.
One engine of a Boeing 747-400 aeroplane was powered by a 50-50 blend of oil from jatropha plants and standard A1 jet fuel.
The flight was the first to use jatropha as part of a biofuel mix.
The test flight out of Auckland International... [Read More]
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Dec 30, 2008
Brazil’s ethanol sales for 2008 are accelerating past petrol sales for the first time, the National Petroleum Agency reports.
The figures take into account sales of hydrated ethanol that can be used in its pure form in most cars in Brazil, and not anhydrous ethanol that is used just to blend with petrol, the agency says.
Sales of hydrated ethanol through October reached... [Read More]
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Dec 31, 2008
Texas-based GreenHunter Biofuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, has received approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell GreenHunter Biodiesel to the on-road market in the US.
This approval by the EPA improves GreenHunter Energy’s biodiesel distribution capabilities in the US, and further enhances the company’s strategy of diversifying... [Read More]
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Jan 2, 2009
US-based Liberty Green Renewables Indiana plans to build a 28 megawatt biomass-to-electricity plant on 110 acres northwest of Milltown, Indiana.
The Crawford County plant will cost $80-90 million (€57-64.5 million).
Funding for the project is expected to come through equity investments, bank financing, local tax abatement and federal New Markets Tax Credits, which... [Read More]
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