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Dec 11, 2008
Biogas plants grow in 2009
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Dec 15, 2008
New Zealand will repeal a requirement for biofuel blends and implement tax breaks on fuels derived from proven sustainable sources instead.
The fuel sale directive, rising to 2.5% of annual sales by 2012, will be revoked under legislation to be voted on later this week, Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee says.
Retailers will continue to sell blended products and the government... [Read More]
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Dec 15, 2008
Malaysia’s transport and industrial sectors will run mandatorily on biodiesel from January 2010, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui has announced.
From February 2009, government vehicles will start using biodiesel with the Envo Diesel Esther (B5) brand, a blend of 5% palm oil and 95% diesel.
‘We expect that by 2010 an estimated... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2008
Chicago, US-based biofuel group Coskata is searching for a partner to set up a multi-million-dollar ethanol conversion plant in Victoria, Australia, capable of producing up to 200 million litres of the fuel a year for use in cars.
The company is looking for sources of waste material in Australia that it could feed into the process. This includes food and garden scraps... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2008
Clean technologies investment company Ludgate Environmental Fund has invested €3 million into agri.capital, a specialist developer, owner and operator of biogas plants in Germany.
The investment has been structured as 8% preferred stock with detachable warrants and is part of a €10 million funding round into agri.capital with Valiance Special Situations Fund investing... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2008
Japan Airlines (JAL) will be the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using camelina-based biofuel, planned for 30 January 2009 at Haneda Airport, Tokyo.
A blend of 50% biofuel and 50% traditional Jet-A jet (kerosene) fuel will be tested in one of the four Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines of a JAL-owned Boeing 747-300 aircraft.
The biofuel component to be... [Read More]
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Dec 17, 2008
The Canadian province of Alberta will implement renewable fuel standards as part of a provincial energy strategy.
Beginning in 2010 Alberta will require regular fuel to contain 5% ethanol, and diesel to contain 2% renewable diesel. The blending requirements are in line with federal standards to reduce carbon emissions.
The province has set aside CA$239 million (€140... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food for Progress programme has funded a biodiesel facility in Guatemala.
The Biodiesel Mazat Agui facility in the country’s coastal region of Escuintla began operations this month.
The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University was also involved in establishing the cooperative biodiesel... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
New York-headquartered clean technology development company GreenShift has received a $38 million (€26 million) investment to produce biodiesel from corn oil extracted from ethanol plants.
GreenShift will receive the investment in a new GreenShift joint venture subsidiary that will use the proceeds to build 12 corn oil extraction facilities and to expand the capacity... [Read More]
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Dec 18, 2008
Escalating demand for E10 fuel in Jamaica has driven plans to expand the market.
‘We intend to have at least some Petcom stations providing up to E85 in the coming year,’ Ministry of Energy Portfolio Minister Clive Mullings says.
Demand for E10 ethanol blended petrol has nearly tripled the projected 3,000 barrels, with calls for 8,000 barrels a week.
The market's... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2008
Raven Biofuels International has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Price Biostock (Price) to develop an ethanol biorefinery located in the Gulf Opportunity Zone of Mississippi, US.
The agreement calls for a biorefinery output of 33 million gallons a year based on a projected 21 million gallons a year of fuel grade ethanol and 12 million gallons a year... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2008
Ineos Enterprises has postponed plans to build a £65 million (€77.6 million) biodiesel plant in Scotland, UK, due to unfavourable economic conditions.
The plant, to be located in Grangemouth near Falkirk, had a nameplate capacity of 500,000 tonnes.
Market volatility has led the company to return a £9 million grant which had been allocated by the Scottish government... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2008
Stratos Renewables, an agro-energy company developing a South American sugarcane ethanol operation, has secured sufficient land in the northern coastal region of Peru required for the production of up to 90 million gallons a year of sugarcane-based ethanol.
Stratos intends to use this land for extensive sugarcane cultivation, milling and distillation into ethanol primarily... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2008
The government of South Korea has announced plans to increase the biodiesel blend ratio from its current level of 1% to 3% by 2012.
In an effort to meet these targets, the government has extended industry tax breaks and has taken steps to increase local feedstock production to minimise import dependency, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2008
Norway-based biofuels firm ScanFuel is due to begin a jatropha-based biodiesel production project outside Ghana's second largest city.
ScanFuel expects to start commercial operations in Kumasi, Ghana, early in 2009, producing 5,000 barrels a day of crude oil equivalent by 2015.
ScanFuel's operation will plant 10,000 hectares of the high oil-yielding jatropha... [Read More]
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