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May 11, 2009
Indonesia biodiesel firms await subsidy
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May 11, 2009
US President Barack Obama has proven his support for the biomass and biofuel industries by providing nearly $800 million (€588 million) in funding and forming a market development programme.
The new funding will be allocated under the directive of the US Department Of Energy biomass programme across four main areas which include $480 million (€353 million) to the... [Read More]
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May 12, 2009
Mississippi, US-based Encore Energy Systems has announced that five new biofuel facilities have been targeted for acquisition.
Of the five production facilities, four of them are located in Mississippi with the other facility in Texas.
Fuel distribution and feedstock allocations have been located for these projects and will be further announced when shipping commences.... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
One of the world’s largest landfill gas-to-energy projects was formally unveiled in Istanbul, Turkey, on 25 April.
The landfill gas project, owned by Ortadogu Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret, was developed as part of a national initiative to reduce the environmental impacts of solid waste facilities and use the landfills’ gas to generate electricity.
Turkey has been modernising... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2009
Researchers from Fermentec, Piracicaba (Brazil), have cut the volume of vinasse in half while producing ethanol at its pilot plant.
Vinasse is a by-product of sugar-based ethanol production.
The achievement was obtained due to the increase the ethanol concentration in fermentation. Currently the distillery in Brazil working with alcohol content between 8% and 10%, resulting... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Germany's biodiesel industry is currently working at below 60% capacity because of higher taxes on green fuels and reduced blending levels with fossil fuels.
Germany was likely to consume about 2.5 million tonnes of biodiesel in 2009, down from 2.7 million tonnes in 2008 and 3.3 million tonnes in 2007, said Johannes Daum, political director of German biofuels industry... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Energy consulting firm Peregrine Energy announced its plan to develop a new woody biomass-fuelled cogeneration plant at Sonoco's manufacturing complex in Hartsville South Carolina.
The company will invest €100 million for the project. The construction of the plant is scheduled to begin once the air permit is issued and the company expects the facility to be commercially... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
South Korea will spend €208 million over the next ten years to create new seaweed forests that can help increase the country's ability to produce biomass energy.
The plan calls for 35,000 hectares of seaweed forest to be created in waters in the east and south coasts and near Jeju Island that can produce up to 1.56 billion litres of ethanol per year by 2020.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
British Columbia-based Lignol Energy, a technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations, was awarded €2.6 million to produce cellulosic ethanol and other biochemical products from under-used forest resources.
Lignol will use the funding to support production runs at its industrial-scale... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Automotive fuels supplier FCL Petroleum has signed an agreement with Petrochem Carless releasing FCL biodiesel to the UK market.
The advanced fuels will be pre-blended biodiesel made from fully sustainable sources.
Blending will take place at the Petrochem Carless refinery at Harwich where blends from B5 (5% sustainable fuel) to B50 (50% sustainable fuel) will be produced.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
BP has called for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to end US import duties on Brazil's sugarcane-based ethanol.
The letter has highlighted BP’s belief that ‘sugarcane-based ethanol will be the lowest-carbon biofuel available in the first years of the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard’.
By supporting the end of import taxes on Brazil's ethanol, the letter... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
Australian biofuels producer Mission NewEnergy has raised €2.7 million from international investors.
In conjunction with the recently announced €12.8 million debt financing, Mission has sufficient funds to complete its second biodiesel facility.
This capital raise also provides Mission with further operational flexibility.
Mission will issue 24,137,931 units raising... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2009
In anticipation of the second annual Biofuels International expo & conference on 27-28 May in Amsterdam, a pre-conference webinar is being held to discuss algae production trends, updates on government biofuel targets, demand for algae and commercial opportunities.
The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 at 3pm GMT (UK) 9am EST (New York) and 8am CDT... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2009
France-based oil and gas company Total has invested in US renewable hydrocarbons producer Gevo.
Gevo is commercialising technology to produce renewable jet fuel and renewable, fungible hydrocarbons such as petrol blendstocks, and renewable diesel blendstocks.
Gevo’s commercialisation approach includes retrofitting existing ethanol facilities to produce hydrocarbon... [Read More]
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Apr 30, 2009
Panda Ethanol’s subsidiary in Hereford, Texas, has sold its unfinished 115 million gallon per year ethanol plants to creditors for €18.7 million.
Panda put the plant up for sale and filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in later January 2009.
The ethanol plant was destined to be a unique operation in Hereford, unofficially known as ‘the beef capital of the... [Read More]
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