All Entries Tagged With: "Colombia"

GPC, Prodigy Capital announce 33 Mgy cassava ethanol plant for Colombia at CGI meeting

In Colombia, Prodigy Capital and GPC Group announced at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York that they will finance and construct a $130 million 33 Mgy cassava-based ethanol plant using feedstock grown on marginal lands. The group announced that they will commence with a 2 Mgy cassava ethanol module and expand, as well [...]

September 24, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Biofuels Digest special report on Colombian, Indian partnership for advanced biofuels

By special correspondent Joelle Brink
While Brazil has long been acknowledged as the world’s largest sugarcane ethanol producer, in only three years a new rival has shot up and is being hailed as a model for the entire ethanol industry. Recently USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) sent a team to South America to investigate differences between [...]

May 28, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Colombia to double ethanol production in 2009

In Colombia, Agricultural minister Andres Fernandez Acosta said that national ethanol production will double to 233 Mgy by the end of this year based on six new projects that will add 132 Mgy in new production capacity.
The country is seeking new foreign direct investment to help increase the pace of biofuels development.

May 28, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0