1 September, 2010
SAO PAULO(MarketWatch) — Brazilian state run energy company Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras, said late Friday that it acquired a 50% stake in the local biodiesel company Bioleo Industrial e Comercial, for 15.5 million Brazilian reals ($8.8 million). Read more »
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27 August, 2010
Argentina is one of world’s top biodiesel suppliers.
SAN NICOLAS, Argentina, Aug 27 (Reuters) – An Argentine company opened on Friday the country’s first factory to make biodiesel from algae, hoping to use pond scum as a replacement for soy in making biodiesel as part of a push for renewable energy. Read more »
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27 August, 2010
BUENOS AIRES – Agribusiness giant Cargill said Thursday it was investing $113.6 million to build a biodiesel plant and an electricity generator in Argentina, where the U.S.-based company is the largest soy exporter.
Both projects will be carried out in the central province of Santa Fe and are due to come online in September 2011, the general manager of Cargill Argentina, Hugo Kranjc, told reporters after submitting the company’s plans to President Cristina Fernandez. Read more »
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5 August, 2010
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new report that champions jatropha as a promising biodiesel crop especially for global rural farmers. The report, “Jatropha: A Smallholder Bioenergy Crop, the Potential for Pro-Poor Development,” set out to examine the potential for jatropha as a sustainable biodiesel crop and has been in development since 2008. Read more »
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3 August, 2010
Skies may be filled with algae.Bilal Bomani and salicornia in the Green Lab at NASA Glenn Research Center In The Region: Scientists at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland may have tied the future of space exploration to sub-aquatic life.
When it comes to energy, there’s always something new under the sun. Except for solar power, which has always been under the sun. NASA Glenn Researcher Bilal Bomani has been working on a process to use biofuel as an alternative energy source for commercial aviation. Read more »
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3 August, 2010
The 100 Mgy Imperium Renewables facility in Grays Harbor, Washington.
Back in 2008 the death watch began on Imperium Renewables.
Though its 100 Mgy multi-feedstock plant in Grays Harbor was, at the time, the largest and most modern biodiesel facility in the US, the company lost its CEO, withdrew a planned IPO, and was forced to cancel a potentially lucrative Hawaiian development project that would have supplied biodiesel to Hawaiian Electric (HECO). Read more »
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23 July, 2010
By Sorrel Moseley-Williams/Herald staff.Although renewable energy sources haven’t hit the mainstream just yet in Argentina, “the biofuels industry is finally coming together,” according to Carlos St. James, president and founder of the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber (ATEC).
Recent developments mean that biodiesel, wind, water and ethanol, the latter which in some cases comes from pig manure, will increasingly be fuelling homes and vehicles.
Although biofuels currently supply just one percent of all energy to the domestic market, according to St. James, legislation will require them to provide eight percent by 2016. In addition, the government recently upped the blend of biodiesel with regular diesel from five percent to seven, an important move in a world increasingly reluctant to be fossil fuel-dependent. Read more »
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23 July, 2010
Canola-based biodiesel is closer to becoming a fuel authorized for biomass-based diesel Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), now that the EPA has released a Notice of Data Availability (NODA) for its recent modeling of the canola oil biodiesel pathway.
Earlier this year, EPA announced the final rule for the new Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2), but the canola pathway was not yet looked at as biofuel feedstock able to meet required greenhouse gas reduction standards. Now, Biodiesel Magazine reports that the EPA says canola oil biodiesel could reduce GHGs by 50 percent compared to petroleum-based diesel: Read more »
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13 July, 2010
Molinos, Vicentin and Oleaginosa Moreno Hermanos will invest $350 million to build a soy-processing plant in Argentina, the companies said in a statement late on Wednesday.
The grain-processing plant will be located just north of Rosario, the main agro-industrial hub in Argentina, which is the world’s largest supplier of soymeal and soyoil. Read more »
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13 July, 2010
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina will make energy companies double the amount of soy-based biodiesel they blend with regular diesel fuel by the end of this year, the government announced on Thursday.
The fuel-mix requirement will be raised from 5 percent now to 7 percent initially and to 10 percent by year’s end, Planning Minister Julio De Vido said. Read more »
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