In the UK, ICIS reports that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant increases in ethanol demand for hand sanitizers, with some markets like France and Germany seeing demand rising 10-fold. As a result, there are concerns that industrial and beverage ethanol will be too tight through the end of 2020. With concerns about drought […]
In Egypt, Egypt Today reports the Ministry of Petroleum, Mining, and Mineral Resources has undertaken a feasibility study for a proposed $110 million ethanol plant. The facility would use molasses as feedstock and discussions are currently underway with sugar producers to create MOUs for feedstock supply. Egypt is one of the few countries in the […]
In North Dakota, the Grand Forks Herald newspaper reports that construction of the Red River Biorefinery that plans to produce ethanol from sugarbeet tailings and potato waste is nearing completion. With an eye on California and other markets with Low Carbon Fuel Standards that put a higher price tag on biofuels produced from waste feedstock, […]
In New Zealand, as part of a Nuffield scholarship, a dairy farmer is going to start researching into the use of sugarbeet domestically as a feedstock for ethanol production and is currently looking for a fuel company to partner with on the project. As part of the tour for scholarship recipients around Europe, the US […]
In Ireland, Beet Ireland’s attempt to revive sugarbeet production in the country could lead to 19 million liters of ethanol production annually in addition to 210,000 metric tons of sugar thanks to a would-be cooperative of 1,000 farmers supplying the required feedstock. The first of several grower meetings has been held to recruit the farmers […]
In North Dakota, officials will break ground on the Red River Biorefinery Wednesday in Grand Forks that will produce ethanol from half a million metric tons of sugarbeet waste annually with the intention of selling the fuel into the California and Canadian markets where low GHG fuels provide a higher return. The facility is expected […]
In the Netherlands, ICIS reports that FOB Rotterdam EU T2 ethanol prices have fallen to $522 per cubic meter, the lowest since September 2016, pushing crush margins into negative territory for European producers. With the European Union capping conventional ethanol at 7% through 2020 and likely further through 2030, traders see the European market in […]
In North Dakota, the Grand Forks Herald reports that Red River BioRefinery has asked Grand Forks County to issue an $80 million bond to help it build a facility that would use sugarbeet and potato waste along with other food waste to produce ethanol. The county has agreed to start the process but the bonds […]
In the UK, Farmers Weekly is highlighting new data from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs showing that bioenergy crop production rose 41% in 2016 to an all-time high of 132,000ha, with corn and wheat taking up the majority of the acreage. Even so, bioenergy crops still only account for 2.2% of arable […]
In the Netherlands, T2 ethanol prices have slumped to an 11-month low of $542/cu m on the back of increased supplies from sugarbeet-based ethanol following the de-regulation of the European Union’s sugarbeet market. Spanish and South American cargos have also recently arrived in Rotterdam, helping to further bring down the price. Most beet-based ethanol is […]
