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Dec 3, 2008
German sugar crop sweetened by bioethanol
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Dec 3, 2008
Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras expects to export 605 million litres of ethanol in 2008.
Petrobras downstream director Paulo Roberto Costa says that 505 million litres will be shipped to the US, with the remaining 100 million litres sailing to Japan.
Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of ethanol and second largest producer after the US.
The country’s... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
US Green Energy Technology (GET) and the Philippines-based biotechnology firm Secura International (SIC) have signed an agreement to construct a $30 million (€23.7 million) biodiesel plant using malunggay oil as feedstock.
Malunggay is a versatile plant that can grow anywhere, except in rice-growing, flooded areas. It is suitable for rainfall of less than 1,000 millimeters... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
Malaysia’s government has approved 91 biodiesel production licences with a total capacity of 10.2 million tonnes of biodiesel.
Deputy minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities senator A. Kohilan Pillay says that to further promote the use of renewable and sustainable forms of energy on 30 October the government approved the mandatory blending of 5% palm methyl... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2008
Espoo, Finland-based VTT Technical Research Center, the largest applied research organisation in Northern Europe, has launched a three-year project to produce biodiesel from waste generated by a Vietnamese fish processing plant.
VTT is working with organisations in France, Germany, the UK and Vietnam on the project known as ENERFISH to construct a biodiesel facility... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2008
Arizona-based food processor Tyson Foods and technology provider Syntroleum have broken ground on a joint-venture (JV) biodiesel plant that will turn animal fat into high-quality diesel and jet fuel.
The $138 million (101 million Euro's) Dynamic Energy plant in Geismar, Louisiana, is scheduled to produce 75 million gallon/year (284 million litres/year) of the renewable... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2008
German bioenergy company Verbio has restarted its 100,000 tonne/year bioethanol plant in Zorbig in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state as prices have stabilised and demand improved.
'In a generally declining market, the price of bioethanol has stabilised,' says Klaus-Dieter Bettien, general manager of the Zorbig site.
Demand was rising, partly due to an increase... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
Boeing and Air New Zealand have announced that they will conduct the first flight test of second generation sustainable biofuel in an airliner on 3 December.
The planned test will be carried out using an Air New Zealand Boeing 747 flying from Auckland, New Zealand. During the flight, one of the jumbo jet's four Rolls-Royce engines will run partly on jatropha-based biofuel.
Successful... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
Mexico's state-run petroleum company Pemex plans to start producing petrol blended with 6% ethanol over the next four years.
Pemex plans to phase out the use of MTBE as a petroleum oxygenate in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City.
The company plans to begin testing 6% ethanol fuel at two service stations and in a test fleet starting in November.
Pemex will... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
The ethanol market is set to swell to 27.7 billion tonnes over the next four years, a report by Global Industry Analysts finds.
Fuel-ethanol is experiencing great interest brought on largely by the ban on MTBE in several countries and its resulting replacement with ethanol.
In the US, the renewable fuels standard mandates the use of approximately 8 billion gallons of... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
Paris-based Akuo Energy plans to build a 30 million gallon a year sweet-sorghum-based ethanol plant in Uruguay. It will be Akuo's first international ethanol plant.
With Akuo Energy supplying the equity investment, financing arrangements are currently being negotiated, Alain Castro, president of Akuo Energy South America, explains.
The last of the necessary governmental... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
China-based Hainan Yedao Group has reportedly invested $51.5 million (41.1 million Euros) in a new biofuel facility to produce 33 million gallons a year of bioethanol from cassava plants.
The plans follow recent moves from the Beijing government to ban the use of grain-based energy crops in bioethanol, amid concerns demand had led to a decline in food supplies.
Cassava... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
US-based agriculture company Archer Daniels Midland and Brazil's Grupo Cabrera have an agreement to form a joint venture to produce ethanol from sugarcane.
The partnership will bring together ADM's expertise in ethanol production, logistics and marketing with Cabrera's knowledge of sugarcane agriculture and production.
'As the world's need for food and energy grows,... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
Australia-based biofuels producer Mission NewEnergy, formerly Mission Biofuels, has announced that a joint venture with a scientific team in India has successfully produced cellulosic ethanol from agricultural wastes at a pilot-scale facility in northern India.
The project focused on developing a novel conversion process for lingocellulosic feedstocks at the plant, which... [Read More]
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Nov 12, 2008
US-based marketer and producer Pacific Ethanol has increased its Q3 sales and lost more money due to higher demand for ethanol and more expensive corn.
Shares of Pacific Ethanol dropped $0.17 (â?¬0.14) to close at $0.91 after the company reported a hefty loss in early November.
The company lost $54.9 million in the quarter ended 30 September, compared to the... [Read More]
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