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Mar 25, 2009
Algae biofuel project launched in the Eastern Cape
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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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Feb 23, 2009
Biofuel Industries Group’s NextDiesel Adrian, Michigan-based biofuel plant may shut down operations when its current stock of material is gone, the company’s CEO says.
The rising cost of production and falling price of oil have contributed to a decrease in the demand for alternative fuels.
‘The current cost of inputs to make the company’s product and the market... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2009
The Glenturret distillery in Perthshire, Scotland, producer of Famous Grouse whisky, is partaking in a demonstration project to convert boiler exhaust gas into oil that can be used as a biodiesel.
Scottish Bioenergy Ventures, which is leading the project, is embarking on an expanded algae reactor system to consume the carbon dioxide.
The next phase of the project starting... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2009
Boston, US-based Mascoma’s demonstration facility in Rome, New York, started producing ethanol from non-food cellulosic biomass on 25 February.
The plant has a production capacity of 200,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year.
Construction on the plant began in early 2008 and was completed by December.
The demonstration facility can run on different biomass feedstocks,... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2009
Biodiesel start-up company SarTec has announced it expects its production facility in Minnesota, US, to begin operations in Q2 this year.
The capacity of the plant will reach approximately 3 million gallons a year operating with the name Ever Cat Fuels.
In 2008 Augsburg College and SarTec announced the discovery of a chemical process that could help develop a new type... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2009
Texas-based Global Alternative Fuels will expand its El Paso biodiesel plant from 5 mgy to 15 mgy.
The company is finalising the engineering for the $12 million (€9.5 million) expansion.
The producer plans to break ground in Q2.
‘Our current infrastructure allows for a fast implementation schedule,’ Carlos Guzmán, president and CEO of Global Alternative Fuels,... [Read More]
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Mar 4, 2009
Lionel Clarke, Global strategic programme manager for Innovation at Shell Global Solutions,
joins the list of 40 high level speakers at Biofuels International expo & conference 2009.
Shell is a world leader in R&D into next generation biofuels. Its technology division Shell Global Solutions has a dedicated bio-team working at several centres around the world... [Read More]
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Mar 5, 2009
South Dakota, US-based KL Energy and Prairie Green Renewable Energy of Alberta, Canada, are conducting a joint effort to develop a cellulosic ethanol plant near Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The companies plan to build a plant that initially provides 5mgy of cellulose ethanol to the Saskatchewan market. Plans include a second facility that will allow doubling production.
The... [Read More]
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Mar 3, 2009
The Iowa Power Fund Board has approved a $14.75 million (€11.7 million) contract with Poet for the development of a commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa, US.
Poet’s Project Liberty will add 25 million gallons a year of cellulosic ethanol production capacity to an existing grain-to-ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
The project is jointly funded... [Read More]
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Mar 3, 2009
Honda Motor company has announced an agreement for the construction of a new cellulosic ethanol research facility in Japan.
Honda plans to build a single 1,050m2 building as a testing facility. The construction is scheduled to begin in April 2009, with operations targeted for November 2009.
The new Kazusa-branch facility of Honda R&D Fundamental Technology Research... [Read More]
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Mar 3, 2009
US producer Pacific Ethanol says it will temporarily close its $120 million (€95.4 million) ethanol plant in Burley in southwest Idaho.
Plant manager Ken Wilson says low petrol prices make biofuels too expensive to compete.
Burley Mayor Jon Anderson says it is unclear how long the plant could be mothballed. He notes company officials say it could be as short as three... [Read More]
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