ACCORDING to new market research report, Global Biodiesel Market (2009 – 2014), published by MarketsandMarkets, the total global biodiesel market is expected to be worth US$12.6 billion by 2014, out of which the European and Americas market will account for nearly 55.6 per cent and 28.6pc of the total revenues respectively.

The global market is expected to record a CAGR of 7.8% from 2009 to 2014. Leer más »

Bernd Waltermann and Henning Streubel ,  Jakarta.

As Indonesia is today the world’s largest producer of crude palm oil (CPO) — a desirable feedstock for biodiesel production — it has the potential to grow into a world biodiesel leader and a model for plantation sustainability.

Biodiesel has the potential to become a significant industry sector in Indonesia, supported by two of its most valuable assets: its oil palm plantations, and more importantly, its people. Indonesia currently produces approximately 20 million tons of CPO per year from 7 million hectares of oil palm plantation, of which approximately 80 percent  is exported.  Leer más »

Growing imports of cheap Argentine biodiesel into Europe are replacing U.S. imports hit by European Union anti-dumping duties in March, Swiss-German biodiesel producer Biopetrol said on Thursday.

“Increasing amounts of indirectly-subsidized biodiesel have been coming to Europe from Argentina since the second quarter,” Biopetrol said in a statement in a statement on its first half 2009 results. Leer más »

The high specialization and professionalism of Expobioenergía has transformed it into the  sector´s annual appointment and so is it shown by the numbers that have been mentioned during its third edition. Â

Expobioenergía.08 reached the foreseen objectives and it attracted a total of 13.186 visitors, 40% more than in the previous edition. This fact, next to the high grade of satisfaction shown by the exhibitors makes Expobioenergía become again the obliged appointment of the bioenergy sectorduring 2009. Leer más »

Narón, Spain. The facilities will be fed by the electric substation of the sector three of the pool of firms .Â

At the end of October the works will be finished and a period of tests will begin that will be prolonged for two months. Â

The Peninsular Biocarburantes company, with social headquarters in Madrid, has foreseen to start at beginnings of the 2009 the biodiesel plant that at the moment is building in the fourth sector of the polygon of Rio do Pozo. The facilities will start up, as confirmed by the vice-president of the company, Jesus Calleja, with an annual production of 120.000 tons. Leer más »

A highly specialized fair that contains the most outstanding companies in the sector and that has been characterized for attracting a high professional level visitor. Expobioenergía.08 exceeds the numbers of any other European fair specialized in bioenergy. Â

Expobioenergía.08 will hold the most important national and international companies and brands of the sector as Valoriza, Acciona, Jenbacher, Guascor, Mabrik, Biogás Nord, Envitec, Guifor, Agric o Isolux Corsan, among others. Leer más »

INVESTIGATORS OF THE CSIC AND THE UPC

The device could transform ethanol into hydrogen in the own vehicle

Their applications would avoid the high costs of replacing the infrastructures Â

Image of the catalyst developed by investigators of the CSIC and the UPC. (Photo: CSIC)

MADRID. – A team of investigators of the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC) and the Polytechnic University of Cataluña (UPC) has developed and patented a catalyst to obtain hydrogen starting from ethanol that, according to its designers, could be a definitive solution for the hydrogen based transport. Leer más »

The recycling, one of the keys to make of the planet a more livable habitat. Photo: CorbisÂ

DiCaprio, Cameron Díaz, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, in campaign for a healthier world. Ecodesign, the tendency that arrives in the Argentina. 10 answers on green buildings.Advices to be a responsible consumer. What Obama and McCain propose on the climatic change. A group of citizens, to the rescue of the Reconquista river. Leer más »

Green Fuel Argentina, of Spanish and national capitals, will lift a biodiesel plant in Rosario’s port.Â

As it was announced to punto biz by Osvaldo Sortino-president of Raiser, the local company that has 40% of Green Fuel Argentina-who specified that the works will start up toward ends of the year and that will take 20 months of work. The complex will demand an investment near to the u$s 30M. Leer más »

Siemens discards the nuclear market in the short term, Spain will be its “laboratory” to develop the business. The company won’t carry out new acquisitions.Â

LONDON. – The technological german group will intensify its presence in the renewable energy market and it won’t bet for the nuclear energy in the short term, as it has advanced its president and managing director, Peter Löscher, in an encounter with the international press held in London. Leer más »