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D1 Oils in offer period for takeover, company confirms
This morning, jatropha pioneer D1 Oils released the following statement:
“The Company notes the recent share price movement and confirms that it is in receipt of a number of preliminary and conditional approaches in relation to possible corporate transactions involving the Company including one which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the [...]
UK moves to close “bonkers” waste cooking oil anomaly in biofuels legislation
In the UK, an amendment to UK biofuels legislation has been proposed to ensure that used cooking oil is counted as a biofuel feedstock. According to a report in Biofuels International, “under the current regulatory regime, when a small proportion is derived from fossil fuels the product is deemed a fossil fuel by Ofgem, a [...]
UK wheat ethanol projects may use up to 19 percent of annual crop; Farmers Union says ethanol is a price support
In the UK, The Times is reporting that the Ensus and Hull wheat ethanol plants are expected to utilize 19 percent of the British wheat harvest – or 2.3 million tonnes out of a total annual harvest of 14 million tonnes. The chairman of the National Farmers Union crops board, however, welcomed the plants despite [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The Bath Activist Network says it has been convinced…policies on launching new biofuel power stations are ethical.”
From This is Bath: A controversial Bath campaign group has called off plans for a protest at the city headquarters of an energy firm. The Bath Activist Network says it has been convinced by information provided by pioneering company Blue-NG that its policies on launching new biofuel power stations are ethical. It had scheduled a [...]
United Utilities and the UK’s National Grid to produce power and fuel from sludge
In the UK, a United Utilities – National Grid partnership will produce renewable methane and biofuels at the Davyhulme wastewater treatment plant in Manchester. The biogas will be produced by anaerobic digestion and then upgraded to renewable methane. The resulting natural gas will be released to the gas grid, or compressed for use in vehicles. [...]
UK’s Helius biomass-to-power swings to profitability, advances two new projects in Bristol, Rothes
In the UK, Helius Energy announced that the biomass-to-power concern recorded a first-half profit of $30,000 compared to a loss of $1.863 million in the corresponding period last year. The company also said that it has $26.7 million cash in hand and has secured a site at the Port of Bristol for “a large biomass [...]
UK venture deploys gravity pressure vessel technology: realizing 63 gallons of ethanol per tonne from solid waste
In England, Maltings Organic Treatment and AqueGen are progressing on a $65 million waste-to-ethanol project in York that will be fully operational in 2011 with a capacity of 26 Mgy, realizing a yield of 63 gallons per dry ton of biomass. The company is using gravity pressure vessel technology, similar to that employed by Agresti [...]
Vivergo Fuels signs offtake, feedstock contracts for UK 111 Mgy wheat ethanol plant
In the UK, Vivergo Fuels, a joint venture of BP, British Sugar and DuPont said that they have signed wheat supply contracts with Frontier, and feed marketing contracts with KW Trident, for the company’s 111 Mgy wheat ethanol plant that will commence production in 2010. The company said that the UK exports enough wheat each [...]
UK government sets 3.25 percent biofuels mandate from 2009-10, up from expected 3.00 percent
In the UK, the national government set a 3.25 percent biofuel mandate for 2009-10, surprising those who had initially expected a 3 percent target. The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation for 2009-10 originally was recommended at a 5 percent level for the period,but was scaled back following a government review in which biofuels were described as [...]
UK’s Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council awards $40 million for advanced biofuels research
In the UK, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) awarded $40 million to research teams at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, Dundee and York, plus Rothamsted Research, the Scottish Crop Research Institute, and the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate. The Scottish government is also contributing to the project, which [...]
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6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Bioenergy
21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy
31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy
41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
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