Archive for June, 2008
1 Mgy multi-feedstock biodiesel producer in Georgia commences operation
In Georgia, Down Earth Energy commenced production at a 1 Mgy multi-feedstock biodiesel plant in Walton County. The plant will commence production at a 250,000 gpy rate.
Georgia background
First United Ethanol said that its $185 million 100 Mgy corn ethanol project is on schedule for a fall 2008 opening. The company said that it had completed [...]
Distinguished scientists urge California to regulate Low Carbon Fuel Standard on hard data, not speculative indirect impacts
A group of 27 distinguished US scientists, citing a severe lack of hard empirical data, urged California to adopt a Low Carbon Fuel Standard based on commonly understood direct impacts on carbon dioxide emissions, and further study indirect land use changes before incorporating any of these indirect impacts in that standard.
“There remain great uncertainties and [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “I’ve been a strong ethanol supporter because Illinois … is a major corn producer” – Sen. Obama
From the New York Times: “Jason Furman, the Obama campaign’s economic policy director, said Mr. Obama’s stance on ethanol was based on its merits. “That is what has always motivated him on this issue, and will continue to determine his policy going forward.”
From the Washington Post: “Asked about his support for ethanol during a press [...]
Brazilian ethanol exports to US projected to jump 50 percent as a result of Midwestern floods
In Brazil, the national sugar cane association Unica projected that Brazilian ethanol exports to the US would increase by 50 percent to more than 1.2 Bgy, with the United States as the primary customer despite the 54 cent per gallon ethanol tariff. Unica said that a combination of record sugar cane harvests and poor sugar [...]
EPA swamped by 15,000 comments on Renewable Fuel Standard waiver
In Washington, the EPA received a total of 15,000 comments on the proposed waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard. The agency said that, following the waiver request by Governor Rick Perry of Texas, said that many of the responses came from a website set up by the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Governor Perry said that he [...]
Dynamotive signs feedstock agreements in Argentina for fast pyrolysis-based bio-oil
Dynamotive Energy Systems announced contracts for the provision of biomass for two of its proposed plants in the Province of Corrientes in Argentina. Negotiations in regard to the site are progressing and are expected to be completed in the near term.
The contract envisages the delivery by the Municipality of Virasoro of 250,000 wet tonnes of [...]
ConEd, Ukrop, Danchanko announce biodiesel conversions
Ukrop’s Super Markets, construction company Danchanko and Con Edison announced conversions to biodiesel. Ukrop’s said that it was recycling waste oil from chicken-frying at 11 of its stores to power its fleet of 60 vehicles. Danchanko is microbrewing its own biodiesel from locally collected waste oil. Con Ed said it had introduced B20 to its [...]
Italian biodiesel production to increase 28 percent in 2008, capacity up 42 percent
In Italy, the Italian Biodiesel Association said that five new biodiesel plants are ready to come online and will increase national biodiesel capacity from 1.9 million tons and to 2.7 million tons. However the association said that the 12 existing plants produced only 469,707 tons due to high feedstock costs last year, down from more [...]
Kreido Biofuels hangs up towel on 100 Mgy North Carolina biodiesel project, citing financing woes
In North Carolina, Kreido Biofuels announced that they were suspending work on a 100 Mgy biodiesel plant in Wilmington due to financing conditions. The company announced that it “will scale back its operations, and pursue opportunities to deploy its biodiesel plant equipment at alternate sites. We are working with Vopak Terminals on an orderly transition.”
Reporting [...]
Syntec drops licensing fee for waste-to-ethanol process in bid to attract stranded corn ethanol producers
Syntec Biofuel has announced that it would drop an upfront $250,000 licensing fee for its waste-to-ethanol process, in a bid to attract business from to corn-based ethanol producers hit by soaring feedstock prices. “Corn prices have killed any prospect that most of those using fermentation processes with grain feedstock can produce ethanol cost-effectively,” Syntec chairman [...]
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