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Mar 18, 2009
Australian ethanol plant takes the crunch
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Mar 12, 2009
Honda Motor Company has developed what it calls the world's first motorcycle powered by an eco-friendly fuel mixed with bioethanol and petrol due for sale in Brazil later this month.
Honda's Brazilian subsidiary plans to sell about 200,000 units of the CG150 Titan Mix, which will come in three models with prices ranging from 6,340 reais to 7,290 reais (€2139-2460).
The... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2009
UK wood recycler Growing Beds has signed a joint venture agreement with waste to energy company Bioflame to build a 2.5MW renewable energy power station capable of producing 20,000MW hours a year.
The plant will be located in a disused Ministry of Defence research and development building in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire.
The £7 million+ (€7.6 million) power station will... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2009
The biomass power industry in Western Australia is gaining steam with plans to establish three new regional plants.
The latest plan in the south coast town of Esperance would see a thirty-million-dollar plant process one-hundred-thousand-tonne of biomass each year.
Don Harrison from energy company Verve says tree plantations already established in the region would be... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2009
The European Union has slapped import fees on US biodiesel, saying it had to protect European producers from unfair American subsidies and below-cost selling.
The EU fees will affect biodiesel sold by Archer Daniels Midland Co., Cargill Inc. and several others to Europe, the world's biggest user and producer of crop-based fuels.
EU trade spokesman Lutz Guellner... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2009
Mississippi-based Encore Energy Systems has announced plans to acquire various biodiesel production facilities which are operating under capacity and can be bought at significant discounts.
This represents a major component of the company’s 2009 growth plan. It believes that consolidation of biodiesel assets will position the company as a premier producer and distributor... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2009
The results of VeraSun’s US bankruptcy court hearing could determine a new floor price for ethanol plants on the bankruptcy auction block.
If the judge approves a suite of bids on VeraSun Energy 17 facilities, buyers interested in other distressed ethanol assets might hope to pay the same low prices offered by VeraSun's suitors.
VeraSun accepted bids on 17 March... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2009
US ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings has warned it has defaulted on some debt payments and could be seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Shares for the company fell to $0.12 (€0.09) on the news.
The company is seeking equity financing or a buyer for all or part of the company, but will choose bankruptcy if those efforts fail.
Aventine operates... [Read More]
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Mar 20, 2009
South Africa signed a contract to export between 70 and 90% of output from a planned 400,000 tonnes a year biodiesel plant to Germany. An environmental impact assessment is under way and production from the plant, located in the Elidz area, will start next year.
This is part of an initiative by the South African government to encourage export-oriented growth in the country... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2009
StocExpo Europe 2009 opened in style today with a pre-show tour of the Port of Rotterdam, the home of the storage industry.
To mark the beginning of the fifth European event dedicated to bulk liquid storage, the Port of Rotterdam Authority showed guests key sights including building work on the new Gate LNG terminal, construction of Spanish biofuel producer Abengoa's... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2009
South Africa’s Eastern Cape has been selected as the site for a pilot project for which marine algae will be used to convert carbon dioxide into biofuels and other products.
Jacobs University in Germany has partnered with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to expand the research with the intention of establishing pilot sites... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2009
Quebec, Canada-headquartered Enerkem, an advanced biofuels and green chemicals technology company, has announced plans to build and operate a second-generation biofuels production facility located in Pontotoc, Mississippi, US.
Plans call for the plant to be built, owned and operated by Enerkem Mississippi Biofuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enerkem.
It is expected... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2009
Connecticut, US-based biofuels developer Greenleaf Biofuels has received a $1.3 million (€952,000) grant from the state of Connecticut to help finance the construction of a 6.7mgy biodiesel plant in New Haven Harbor, Connecticut.
Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has backed the project, and it has been administered through the... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2009
Magellan Midstream Partners is collaborating with US ethanol producer Poet to progress a feasibility assessment of constructing a dedicated ethanol pipeline from the Midwest to distribution terminals in the north-eastern US.
Since February 2008, Magellan has been exploring the feasibility of constructing a 1,700-mile dedicated renewable fuels pipeline from northwest... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2009
Craton Equity Partners, a Southern California, US-based clean technology fund, has made a commitment of $10 million (€7.9 million) to Principle Energy Limited (PEL), a sustainable biofuel development company with projects that target sub-Saharan Africa.
PEL is developing a sugarcane ethanol operation in Mozambique. The project is expected to manufacture around 60 million... [Read More]
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