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Mar 30, 2009
Tanzania building 60 new biogas plants
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Mar 30, 2009
The international airline association IATA is aiming to approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 or 2011.
Recent tests by Continental Airlines, Japan's JAL, Air New Zealand and Virgin had shown that next generation sustainable clean burning biofuels were successful, IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani says.
Biofuels would still need to be produced in... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2009
US-based Nova Biosource Fuels has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a need to restructure its biodiesel refining business.
The company has up to $50 million (€37.8 million) of both liabilities and assets.
Nova Biosource produces diesel from animal-derived fats, greases and vegetable-based oils, operating in five refineries.
Nova Biosource, which reported a Q1... [Read More]
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Apr 1, 2009
South African biodiesel production company First In Spec BioDiesel is planning to build a R250-million (€20 million) biodiesel plant that would convert waste vegetable oil into biodiesel.
The company is planning to build a plant to produce 50 million litres a year of biodiesel.
The company has already signed letters of intent for about 15 million litres a year of feedstock... [Read More]
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Mar 31, 2009
Delegates can now start networking and arrange meetings even before Biofuels International expo and conference starts.
The event, now only a few weeks away in Amsterdam on 27-28 May, features a networking suite for all delegates and speakers which have registered, allowing you to specifically choose who you want to have lunch with.
Lionel Clarke, Biodomain Global Strategic... [Read More]
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Apr 1, 2009
Finnish energy company St1 has begun selling its new domestic biofuel product Refuel containing 80-85% of bioethanol produced from Finnish bio-waste using the company’s Etanolix concept.
The bioethanol in the fuel blend is produced from local industrial waste and side-streams with highly energy efficient concept and it can lead up to 80% less fossil carbon dioxide emissions... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2009
The Netherlands-headquartered bank Rabobank and sustainable solutions provider Econcern have reached financial close for establishing a sustainable energy system on the Caribbean island of Bonaire including a biodiesel plant.
The project includes construction of a 14 MW biodiesel plant, supplied by MAN, and a 3 MW backup battery, and an 11 MW wind farm, supplied by Enercon.... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2009
Indian biotech research company Reliance Life Sciences (RLS) has announced plans to increase biodiesel production by setting up crushing and extraction facilities for producing over 100,000 tonnes of biofuels a year.
RLS currently produces 6,500 tonnes a year of biodiesel from non-edible crops at a pilot project at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, India.
RLS plans to work... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2009
US energy company ExxonMobil has become the first petrol company to sell a biodiesel blend at the pump in New Zealand.
The blend, 5% tallow-based biodiesel and 95% mineral diesel, has gone on sale as a trial in the Bay of Plenty.
In 2007, Gull Petroleum introduced Gull Force 10, a 90% petrol and 10% bioethanol blend.
Another renewable biofuel choice may soon be on offer... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2009
US senators have introduced a new legislation in Washington DC, for renewable biomass.
Senators John Thune, Jon Tester, and Saxby Chambliss all agreed that a new bill, previously known under the RFS and the 2008 Farm Bill gives a clearer and better understanding of renewable biomass.
Prior to the 2008 Bill, The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 bill excluded... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2009
Scientists in Washington (US) have revealed that unfertile or contaminated lands now have a chance to reproduce plants and trees for producing biofuels.
Poplar trees, in particular, are used for this research because of their ability to grow quickly, adapt in various climate but mostly because of their traits for biofuel production.
The scientists found that adding... [Read More]
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Apr 4, 2009
A recent survey conducted by the Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project shows that 67% of US respondents are interested in learning more about renewable biofuels.
This public interest mainly came when oil prices started going up back in late 2007 and many as 66% people agreed that the use of biofuels will condense the US dependency on foreign oil.
Another 53% believed... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2009
A biodiesel plant has arrived in El Salvador from Colombia to be used in a pilot plan this month to study the profitability of producing biofuel.
The plan will look at the entire production chain. The government has purchased 18.5 tonnes of palm oil from Honduras to produce the biodiesel and test the biofuel in vehicles of the national agriculture technology centre.
The... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2009
The Czech power group CEZ raised production of electricity from biomass by a third to 327 GWh in the Czech Republic during 2008.
CEZ used 347,000 tonnes of biomass last year, 50% more on the year before, with all sources burning biomass together with brown coal.
The amount of power would cover the annual consumption of over 93,000 households.
CEZ, which is majority... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2009
US ethanol lobby groups have combined to officially file a petition with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting the amount of ethanol that is blended into petrol be raised from 10% to 15%.
The March 6 filing was accompanied by hundreds of pages of research supporting the groups’ claims that no significant damage would be incurred by the nation’s vehicles... [Read More]
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