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Oct 15, 2008
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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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Nov 12, 2008
Vital Renewable Energy Company (VREC), a new Brazilian company, has secured funding amounting to $1 billion (€799 million) for ethanol and electricity generation projects in Brazil.
The funding was completed by an international consortium of private investors including Paladin Capital Group, Vision Brazil Investments, Leaf Clean Energy Company, Petercam Asset Management... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2008
The federal government is raising the target for the amount of ethanol used in the US petrol supply to 11.1 billion gallons.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set its 2009 Renewable Fuels Standard at 10.21%, equating to 11.1 billion gallons of ethanol.
The 2008 RFS was 7.76%, or an approximate 9 billion gallons.
The US Energy Independence and Security... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2008
Agribusiness US Sugar has entered into an agreement with Illinois-based renewable energy company Coskata to explore building a 100 million gallon a year cellulosic ethanol facility in Clewiston, Florida.
The facility would be the world's largest second generation ethanol facility. It would convert left-over sugarcane material into ethanol, and would help Florida... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2008
Dominican Republic-based W2E Resources will construct a plant to produce ethanol and electricity, transforming solid waste, including sugarcane bagasse, at a cost of around US$200 million (€158.5 million).
The company is undertaking the environmental impact study and engineering of the final draft, with construction expected to begin early next year, and around 24... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2008
Cambodia opened its first ethanol factory to generate biofuel from cassava flour on Monday 17 November.
The plant has a capacity of 36,000 tonnes a year.
‘This factory will become the market place of cassava product for local farmers,’ Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen comments.
The project, with $40 million (€31.5 million) investment from MH Bio-energy Group... [Read More]
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