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		<title>GOVERNMENT OF CANADA INVEST IN BIODIESEL</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[15 September 2010. In an effort to reduce carbon emissions and further renewable energy solutions, the Canadian government is to invest up to CA$18.79 million (€14 million) in Biocardel Quebec, a biofuels plant producing biodiesel and glycerol located in Richmond, Quebec, through its ecoENERGY for biofuels programme. The investment will span over a seven-year period. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>15 September 2010. In an effort to reduce carbon emissions and further renewable energy solutions, the Canadian government is to invest up to CA$18.79 million (€14 million) in Biocardel Quebec, a biofuels plant producing biodiesel and glycerol located in Richmond, Quebec, through its ecoENERGY for biofuels programme. <span id="more-629"></span></strong></p>
<p>The investment will span over a seven-year period. Speaking about the investment, the minister of natural resources Christian Paradis said: ‘By investing in this project we are helping to create and sustain local jobs and economic opportunities while creating a healthier environment for all Canadians.’</p>
<p> The Biocardel Quebec plant will use animal fat and waste cooking oil to manufacture around 40 million litres a year of biodiesel, which will then be sold to Quebec-based diesel producers, in addition to producers located in the US. ‘We are very pleased with the government of Canada’s support. It will help to secure the future of our biodiesel production,’ commented Biocardel Quebec’s president Rene Delarus.</p>
<p>‘Biocardel’s production of biodiesel and our R&amp;D work in algal biofuels and recovery of by-products will help to reduce greenhouse has emissions while promoting a sustainable environment.’ This CA$18.79 million investment is part of a $1.5 billion investment by the Canadian government that will take place over a total of nine years.</p>
<p>SOURCE: BIOFUELS NEWS</p>
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		<title>British Airways agrees deal UK jet biofuel (biojet) plant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BA says the plant will reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill. British Airways has struck a deal to build the first plant in Europe to produce jet fuel from waste matter. Some 500,000 tonnes of waste will be used by the UK facility each year to produce 16 million gallons of fuel. Construction [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biodiesel-news.com/zenphoto/index.php?album=biodiesel&amp;image=biojet-biokerosene-biodiese.gif"><img class="ZenphotoPress_thumb ZenphotoPress_right " style="float: right;" title="biojet-biokerosene-biodiese" src="http://www.biodiesel-news.com/zenphoto/zp-core/i.php?a=biodiesel&amp;i=biojet-biokerosene-biodiese.gif" alt="biojet-biokerosene-biodiese" /></a>BA says the plant will reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.</strong></p>
<p><strong>British Airways has struck a deal to build the first plant in Europe to produce jet fuel from waste matter.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Some 500,000 tonnes of waste will be used by the UK facility each year to produce 16 million gallons of fuel.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Construction of the plant in east London will start within two years. It is set to produce fuel from 2014, creating up to 1,200 jobs.<span id="more-431"></span></strong></p>
<p>BA said the plant would produce twice the amount of fuel needed to power all its flights from London City Airport.</p>
<p>It would only account for about 2% of flights from Heathrow, however.</p>
<p><strong>Greenhouse gas</strong></p>
<p>BA argues the plant will cut the amount of waste that is sent to landfill, reducing the amount of methane that is produced.</p>
<p>Methane is thought to be a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.</p>
<p>The plant will be built by a US company Solena Group, with BA committing to buy all of its output.</p>
<p>It will be another four years before it starts producing fuel, and it is unlikely to work at full capacity straight away.</p>
<p>The ideal source material for the plant is waste matter that has a high carbon content.</p>
<p><strong>Biofuel creation</strong></p>
<p>The waste is fed into a high temperature &#8220;gasifier&#8221; to produce BioSynGas.</p>
<p>A chemical process called Fischer Tropsch is then used to convert the gas into biofuel.</p>
<p>Waste products from the process can be used to power the plant as well as supply 20MW of electricity to the national grid.</p>
<p>A solid waste product can be used as an aggregate in construction.</p>
<p>The fuel produced by the plant is certified for use in other countries, but not currently in the UK.</p>
<p>BA says it is confident of getting the certification by the time the plant starts producing fuel, either for use in a blend with traditional kerosene or on its own.</p>
<p>By Richard Scott</p>
<p>Source: BBC</p>
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		<title>Bioenergy, Shell in u$s 12 billion ethanol deal with Brazil´s Cosan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAO PAULO (Reuters) &#8211; Royal Dutch Shell plans to form an ethanol and fuel distribution joint venture worth up to $12 billion with Brazilian sugar and biofuel giant Cosan, becoming the latest global energy company to buy into one of Brazil&#8217;s fastest-growing industries. The deal, announced on Monday, marks Shell&#8217;s first foray into ethanol production [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biodiesel-news.com/zenphoto/index.php?album=biodiesel&amp;image=etanol-shell-cosan.gif"><img class="ZenphotoPress_thumb ZenphotoPress_right " style="float: right;" title="etanol-shell-cosan" src="http://www.biodiesel-news.com/zenphoto/zp-core/i.php?a=biodiesel&amp;i=etanol-shell-cosan.gif" alt="etanol-shell-cosan" /></a>SAO PAULO (Reuters) &#8211; Royal Dutch Shell plans to form an ethanol and fuel distribution joint venture worth up to $12 billion with Brazilian sugar and biofuel giant Cosan, becoming the latest global energy company to buy into one of Brazil&#8217;s fastest-growing industries.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The deal, announced on Monday, marks Shell&#8217;s first foray into ethanol production and follows moves by British oil company BP, which in 2008 took a stake in a big Brazilian biofuel project and unveiled $1 billion in investments.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cosan shares jumped 12 percent in Sao Paulo, compared with a 1.1 percent gain by the benchmark Bovespa index. Shell shares rose 1.1 percent in London, outperforming a 0.3 percent rise in the Dow Jones European oil and gas index.<span id="more-386"></span></strong></p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a vote of confidence from an oil major for the Brazilian ethanol industry,&#8221; said Jonathan Kingsman, managing director of the Lausanne-based Kingsman SA ethanol and sugar consultancy. &#8220;I expect more interest from the oil companies in Brazilian ethanol, both in production and distribution.&#8221;</p>
<p>The 50-50 joint venture will be the third-largest fuel distributor in Latin America&#8217;s largest country, with almost 4,500 filling stations nationwide. By joining forces, Cosan and Shell will be better positioned to compete with the two top players in the market, state oil giant Petrobras and Ipiranga, a unit of Brazil&#8217;s Grupo Ultra.</p>
<p>Cosan first branched out into the fuel distribution business in 2008 when it acquired U.S.-based Exxon Mobil Corp&#8217;s Esso chain of service stations for nearly $1 billion. Cosan also agreed in December to buy a local chain of filling stations called Petrosul for an undisclosed sum.</p>
<p>While the deal will not immediately add to Cosan&#8217;s existing cane crushing capacity of about 60 million tonnes a year, it will give it a deep-pocketed partner at a time when some of its smaller rivals are vulnerable to takeovers.</p>
<p>The companies hope to more than double ethanol output to up to 5 billion liters a year from about 2 billion now, Shell&#8217;s downstream director, Mark Williams, said in London, without giving a time frame. The increase would come from takeovers and organic growth, he added.</p>
<p>The deal is another feather in the cap of Cosan Chairman Rubens Ometto, whose family has been in the sugar business since 1936. On Ometto&#8217;s watch, Cosan went on an acquisition spree and expanded into fuel distribution and port terminals.</p>
<p>Ometto hopes to capitalize on Shell&#8217;s global clout to make ethanol a widely traded commodity.</p>
<p>&#8220;Brazil&#8217;s aim is to become an ethanol exporter. Shell has distribution facilities throughout the world that we could use in a much more integrated way,&#8221; Ometto said in Sao Paulo.</p>
<p>&#8220;This step will be very important to consolidate ethanol as a clean and renewable fuel &#8230; and help it become a global commodity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oil companies and major global investors have been searching for partnerships in Brazil&#8217;s promising ethanol sector, which is still largely dominated by family companies with complex ownership structures.</p>
<p>Shell has been looking for opportunities in Brazil&#8217;s ethanol industry for years. About 90 percent of all new cars in Brazil are flex-fuel, running on any mix of ethanol and gasoline, making the country a huge market for biofuels.</p>
<p>Other foreign companies have also been delving into Brazil. U.S. agribusiness giant Bunge Ltd struck a deal in December to buy sugar and ethanol producer Moema for $452 million, while French commodities company Louis Dreyfus said in October it would take over the Santelisa Vale mill for an undisclosed sum.</p>
<p><strong>COSAN EYES OVERSEAS MARKETS, TECHNOLOGY</strong></p>
<p>The combined entity will have about 40 billion reais ($21.4 billion) in annual sales, Cosan Chief Financial Officer Marcelo Martins said on a conference call with analysts and investors.</p>
<p>For Cosan, the world&#8217;s largest sugar and ethanol producer, teaming up with Shell could give it access to a vast overseas distribution network and new technologies in ethanol production, an area where Shell has been investing. Shell&#8217;s network may help Cosan export more ethanol as output grows.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have a partner with an absolutely huge international presence in fuels sales,&#8221; Martins said.</p>
<p>The so-called second-generation in ethanol production has yet to reach commercial scale, but some companies are betting on the use of cellulosic material such as bagasse or cane stalks and grasses to make biofuels, in part to move away from making fuel from foodstuffs.</p>
<p>Cosan, which recently obtained a court injunction to remove its name from a government black list of companies with workers in slave-like conditions, said it had 180 days to discuss the nonbinding memorandum of understanding exclusively with Shell International Petroleum Co Ltd.</p>
<p>As part of the transaction, Cosan will transfer its sugar, ethanol, fuel distribution and energy generation business to the merged entity, with assets valued at $4.93 billion and debt of $2.52 billion.</p>
<p>Shell will contribute its retail fuel and aviation distribution business, valued at up to $3 billion, and inject $1.63 billion into the merged company in up to two years.</p>
<p>Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual advised Cosan on the transaction, while JPMorgan Chase advised Shell.</p>
<p>Cosan and Shell will have the option of buying each other&#8217;s stake in the venture after 10 years, with the price to be determined at the time of purchase.</p>
<p>Earlier on Monday, Cosan released its quarterly earnings for the three months ended December 31. It posted net income of 167.1 million reais, up sharply from 5.2 million reais a year earlier. ($1=1.87 reais)</p>
<p>Reporting by Elzio Barreto and Inae Riveras; additional reporting by Reese Ewing in Sao Paulo and David Brough, Nigel Hunt and Tom Bergin in London; editing by Todd Benson, Dave Zimmerman and John Wallace.</p>
<p>Source:  Reuters</p>
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		<title>Scientists sequence soybean genome, reveal pathways for improving biodiesel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. The sequence and its analysis appear in the January 14 edition of the journal Nature.<span id="more-381"></span></strong></p>
<p>The research team comprised 18 institutions, including the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Purdue University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The DOE, National Science Foundation, USDA and United Soybean Board supported the research.</p>
<p>&#8220;The soybean genome&#8217;s billion-plus nucleotides afford us a better understanding of the plant&#8217;s capacity to turn sunlight, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water, into concentrated energy, protein, and nutrients for human and animal use,&#8221; said Anna Palmisano, DOE Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research. &#8220;This opens the door to crop improvements that are sorely needed for energy production, sustainable human and animal food production, and a healthy environmental balance in agriculture worldwide.&#8221;</p>
<p>With the soybean genetic code now determined, the research community has access to a key reference for more than 20,000 legume species and can explore the extraordinary evolutionary innovation of nitrogen-fixing symbiosis that is so critically important to successful agricultural crop rotation strategies.</p>
<p>Jeremy Schmutz, the study&#8217;s first author and a DOE JGI scientist at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama, said that the soybean sequencing was the largest plant project done to date at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. &#8220;It also happens to be the largest plant that&#8217;s ever been sequenced by the whole genome shotgun strategy—where we break it apart and reassemble it like a huge puzzle,&#8221; he said. Of the more than 20 other plant genomes taken on by the DOE JGI, those already sequenced include the black cottonwood (poplar) tree and the grain sorghum, both targeted because of their promise as biomass feedstocks for biofuels production.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a milestone for soybean research and promises to usher in a new era in soybean agronomic improvement,&#8221; said co-author Gary Stacey, Director, Center for Sustainable Energy and Associate Director and National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri. &#8220;The genome provides a parts list of what it takes to make a soybean plant and, more importantly, helps to identify those genes that are essential for such important agronomic traits as protein and oil content.&#8221;</p>
<p>Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence.</p>
<p>From the sequence analysis, Stacey said that he and his colleagues have identified more than 46,000 genes of which 1,110 are involved in lipid metabolism. &#8220;These genes and their associated pathways are the building blocks for soybean oil content and represent targets that can be modified to bolster output and lead to the increase of the use of soybean oil for biodiesel production.&#8221;</p>
<p>While biodiesel from soybean oil represents a cleaner, renewable alternative to fossil fuels with desirable properties as a liquid transportation fuel, there simply is not enough oil produced by the plant to be a competitive gasoline on a gallons-of-fuel yield per acre. The availability of the soybean genome may provide some key solutions. &#8220;We can now zero in on the control points governing carbon flow towards protein and oil,&#8221; said Tom Clemente, Professor, Center for Biotechnology, Center for Plant Science Innovation at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. &#8220;With the combination of informatics, biochemistry and genetics we can target the development of a soybean with greater than 40 percent oil content.&#8221;</p>
<p>The availability of the soybean genome sequence has accelerated other soybean trait discovery efforts as well. For example, researchers have used the sequence to zero in on a mutation that can be used to select for a line that has lower levels of the sugar stachyose, which will improve the ability of animals and humans to digest soybeans.</p>
<p>In another effort, by comparing the genomes of soybean and corn, a single-base pair mutation was found that causes a reduction in phytate production in soybean. Phytate is the form in which phosphorous is stored in plant tissue. Because phytate is not absorbed by the animals that eat the feed, the unabsorbed phytate passes through the gastrointestinal tract, elevating the amount of phosphorus in the manure. Limiting phytate production in the soybean could reduce a major environmental runoff contaminant from swine and poultry waste.</p>
<p>Of additional importance for soybean farmers is that the genome sequence has provided access to the first resistance gene for the devastating disease Asian Soybean Rust (ASR). In countries where ASR is well established, soybean yield losses due to the disease can be as high as 80 percent.</p>
<p>Provided by DOE/Joint Genome Institute</p>
<p>Source: Physorg</p>
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		<title>Ethanol, Bunge to expand sugar business in Brazil</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been quite a bit of activity in Brazil during the last few months of 2009 and it looks like it will continue. Bunge Limited announced today that it will become the 100 percent owner of Usina Moema Participacoes S.A. Moema Par is a holding company that owns one sugarcane mill and has ownership [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>There has been quite a bit of activity in Brazil during the last few months of 2009 and it looks like it will continue. Bunge Limited announced today that it will become the 100 percent owner of Usina Moema Participacoes S.A. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Moema Par is a holding company that owns one sugarcane mill and has ownership in five others. Together the six mills, known as the Moema Group, have the capacity to crush 15.4 metric tons. This agreement, which is structured as a share exchange worth approximately $896 million, gives Bunge 60 percent effective share of the total capacity.<span id="more-379"></span></strong></p>
<p>“This transaction fulfills Bunge’s strategic goal of building a large-scale, fully integrated business in sugar and bioenergy,” stated Alberto Weisser, Chairman and CEO of Bunge Limited. “It adds significant scale to our current milling operations and enables us to vary production among multiple sugar and ethanol products, according to market conditions. The Moema Group cluster is also strategically located near large domestic markets in Brazil and has excellent access to export logistics systems. All of these strengths make it a perfect fit with our global trading and marketing operations.”</p>
<p>The Moema Group cluster is located on the border of São Paulo and Minas Gerais states, the two largest domestic ethanol markets in Brazil. According to Bunge, the mills benefit from cost savings due to their cluster configuration, and have favorable road and rail access to three of Brazil’s largest export ports (Santos, Paranagua and Vitoria). The mills can produce both raw and crystal sugar, as well as hydrous and anhydrous ethanol. In addition, the mills have co-generation facilities, are self-sustaining in terms of energy requirements and sell excess power to the grid. The majority of the cluster’s sugarcane is harvested mechanically, which is now law in São Paulo.</p>
<p>According to Bunge, they may enter into agreements to secure some of all of the remaining interests in the mills that comprise the Moema Group in the next few weeks.</p>
<p>Source: Domestic Fuel</p>
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		<title>Wind power in Argentina: Renewable Generation auction definition begins</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In past days the envelopes with the technical offer of the Official Plan of Renewable Energies (GENREN) bid were opened. The proposing companies are now waiting for the economic offer envelopes. he Argentine government announced the results of the 1,015 megawatt (MW) renewable energies tender proposed last May. The total offers reached 1,461 MW, a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biodiesel-news.com/zenphoto/index.php?album=biodiesel&amp;image=americadelsur.jpg"><img class="ZenphotoPress_thumb ZenphotoPress_right " style="float: right;" title="americadelsur" src="http://www.biodiesel-news.com/zenphoto/zp-core/i.php?a=biodiesel&amp;i=americadelsur.jpg" alt="americadelsur" /></a>In past days the envelopes with the technical offer of the Official Plan of Renewable Energies (GENREN) bid were opened. The proposing companies are now waiting for the economic offer envelopes.</strong></p>
<p><strong>he Argentine government announced the results of the 1,015 megawatt (MW) renewable energies tender proposed last May. The total offers reached 1,461 MW, a 46% oversubscription. The offers were broken down by technology: 1,203 for wind power; 155.4 MW from biofuels; 54.1 MW from biomass; 14 MW from biogas; 22.5 MW from photovoltaic solar energy; and 12.7 MW from small hydro projects.<span id="more-375"></span></strong></p>
<p>The opening of the sealed envelopes was done at a ceremony at the presidential mansion known as la Casa Rosada, which included words from Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as well as from the Federal Planning Minister, Julio de Vido.</p>
<p>According to a recent study by the Argentine Renewable Energy Chamber (CADER), nearly 70% of Argentina’s territory is covered with winds whose annual average speed, measured at 50 meters above ground level, surpasses 6 m/s. In Central and Southern Patagonia the speeds can reach on average 9 m/s and up to 12 m/s. Most areas in the vast Patagonia region experience annual average capacity factors above 45%. The provinces of Córdoba, part of San Luis, La Pampa, San Juan, La Rioja and the central and southwestern regions of the province of Buenos Aires yield capacity factors between 35% and 40%.</p>
<p>But despite such massive potential, the 30 MW of wind generation that has been installed to date comes mainly from projects completed between the mid-1990s and early 2000s that were developed by small cooperatives in the Patagonian region.</p>
<p>The tender had been launched by the government last May to assist in the requirements under Renewable Energies Law 26.190 from 2006 that requires that by the year 2016, fully 8% of the country’s energy matrix must be derived from renewable sources. Once all offers have been reviewed, the government must evaluate each one objectively – prices offered and the companies’ technical and financial capacity, among others. According to calculations by the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber, if all 1,462 MW are accepted it will result in investments in excess of US$2 billion and the creation of approximately 1000 new jobs.</p>
<p>After the public announcement, the President of the chamber, Carlos St. James, exchanged thoughts about the next steps with President Fernandez, expressing optimism about the future of the industry. &#8220;These offers, considering the quality and prestige of the multinational companies making them, leaves no doubt that Argentina is on its way to developing a full-fledged renewable energies industry. This is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved when a fluid communication is established between the public and private sectors.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the chamber had indicated in its recent State of the Argentine Wind Industry study published last May, Argentina has unequaled potential to develop wind energy, as seen by the dominance of wind projects in the tender totaling 1,203 MW, more than 80% of the total offerings. According to Mauro Soares, President of the Wind Energy Committee of the Chamber, &#8220;This tender generated unparalleled activity and interest from our sector; the number of proposals focused on wind was very gratifying. Now we will finally see this energy become part of our country’s energy matrix. We welcome this launch of the industry in Argentina, and I congratulate all those that worked towards making it possible.” Also, Sebastian Kind, co-author of the study and board member of the chamber, stated, “Today we saw a high degree of confidence of the sector’s potential; the 1461 MW offered represent solid foundations for a prosperous renewable industry. Argentina has a unique opportunity to generate new skills and develop technology while providing clean and competitive energy for our future.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to a recent study published by New Energy Finance, based in London, the global renewable energies industry invested US$155 billion in 2008, with a compound annual growth rate of 45%. Latin America captured US$12 billion of this total, but it is growing at a CAGR of 145%.</p>
<p>The Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber (Cámara Argentina de Energías Renovables, or CADER) is a non-profit industry trade association dedicated to the sustainable development of renewable energies in Argentina. It seeks to play a vital role in the establishment of a solid and vibrant industry, one which is respected globally for its standards and practices.</p>
<p>The Chamber counts among its members companies that believe these principles and work towards developing the local solar, wind and biomass sectors. Its great diversity in members creates one of the Chamber’s greatest strengths, since it is the only organization that represents the entire spectrum of this nascent industry’s value chain.</p>
<p>In past days the envelopes with the technical offer of the Official Plan of Renewable Energies (GENREN) bid were opened. The proposing companies are now waiting for the economic offer envelopes, which will be handed once the technical analysis is concluded. The complete list of proposing companies follows.</p>
<p><strong>1. Emgasud Renovables: 4 wind farms (3 of 50 MW and one of 30 MW, two in Madryn and one in Rawson)</strong></p>
<p><strong>2. Patagonia Wind Energy: one 50 MW wind park, in Madryn.</strong></p>
<p><strong>3. Energías Sustentables SA: one 20 MW wind farm, in West Madryn.</strong></p>
<p><strong>4. International New Energy: one 50 MW wind park, in North Madryn.</strong></p>
<p><strong>5. Sogesic SA: 2 wind parks, of 50 MW, in Tres picos.</strong></p>
<p><strong>6. Unitec Energy &#8211; San Jose Argentina &#8211; INVAP (UTE): 2 wind parks, of 50 MW.</strong></p>
<p><strong>7. Isolux Ingenieria &#8211; Gas y Petróleo de Neuquén &#8211; Ingenieria Sima SA, (UTE): one 50 MW wind park.</strong></p>
<p><strong>8. Isolux Ingenieria: 4 wind parks of 50 MW in Loma Blanca 1.2.3 and 4.</strong></p>
<p><strong>9. Impsa Wind SA: 10 wind parks. Kaluel Kayke I (50MW), II (25MW), Malaspina I (50 MW), II (30MW), Condor Cliff La Barrancosa (50MW), Piedra Buena I (50MW), II (30MW), Las Heras (50 MW), Tornquist (50MW).</strong></p>
<p><strong>10. Pan American Fueguinas SA: 28 MW wind park in Cerro Dragon.</strong></p>
<p>Patagonia in Argentina has some of the best conditions in the world for wind power generation. Not only are the winds strong in Patagonia, but they are also fierce in the south of Buenos Aires province and interior provinces such as Córdoba. Blessed with such potential, Argentina should be a world leader in wind energy.</p>
<p>Source: evwind</p>
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		<title>EEB call on Argentina to withdraw biodiesel subsidies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Biodiesel Board has called on the Argentinean authorities to step in and take a positive stance in balancing the trade in biodiesel between Argentina and Europe. In a statement issued last week the EBB explained that it had been growing increasingly concerned by the sharp increase in biodiesel exports from Argentina that the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The European Biodiesel Board has called on the Argentinean authorities to step in and take a positive stance in balancing the trade in biodiesel between Argentina and Europe. In a statement issued last week the EBB explained that it had been growing increasingly concerned by the sharp increase in biodiesel exports from Argentina that the EU has been facing since January. It went on to say that it stood ready to take any appropriate step to restore, what it saw, as balanced market conditions.<span id="more-373"></span></strong></p>
<p>In justifying its stance the EBB explained that Argentine exports to EU had increased dramatically from less than 5,000 tons in July 2008 to almost 100,000 tons per month in July 2009, a twenty-fold increase. For the whole of 2009, Argentine exports are expected to exceed the 1 million metric tons threshold, as compared to only 70 000 tons the previous year.</p>
<p>This surge in Argentine biodiesel exports to EU is, claims the EBB, driven by a regime of differentiated export taxes (known as DETs). A system which, it says, creates a clear distortion, in the market, and one which needs rebalancing.</p>
<p>The differential between the 32% export tax on soybean oil and the 20% export tax on biodiesel creates a clear financial incentive to process soybean oil into biodiesel rather than exporting it, argues the EBB. This incentive is already substantial on paper, but is even higher in practice. The EBB says it has received indications that the tax differential between soybean oil and biodiesel is in reality in the range of 20% due to a number of ad hoc implementing rules. This information proved difficult to obtain despite EBB repeated contacts with Argentinean authorities and stakeholders.</p>
<p>The EBB is keen to stress that it has always been in favour of an open EU biodiesel market considering the EU’s objective of 10% renewable energy in transport by 2020. However, it is also keen to highlight the discrepancy in the market where Argentine biodiesel enjoys duty-free access to the EU biodiesel market, whereas Argentina levies a 14% customs duty on biodiesel from Europe and other countries.</p>
<p>The EBB is clear that it has to oppose any trade practices that distort competition between European and foreign producers. “EBB takes very seriously the challenge of Argentine biodiesel exports to EU. We stand ready to defend our interests, as we already did successfully against subsidised imports from the United States”, said Raffaello Garofalo, EBB Secretary-General.</p>
<p>In the view of EBB, it would be appropriate for Argentinean authorities to withdraw at the earliest opportunity the DETs regime currently applied on soybean products and biodiesel. The continuation of this trade distorting measure would call for an appropriate reaction from EU biodiesel producers.</p>
<p>Written by Giles Clark, London</p>
<p>Source: Biofuel Review</p>
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		<title>Sahara Sun to help power Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy from the Sahara plants is expected to supply Europe by 2015. A sustainable energy initiative that will start with a huge solar project in the Sahara desert has been announced by a consortium of 12 European businesses. The Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to supply Europe with 15% of its energy needs by 2050. Companies [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Energy from the Sahara plants is expected to supply Europe by 2015.</strong></p>
<p><strong>A sustainable energy initiative that will start with a huge solar project in the Sahara desert has been announced by a consortium of 12 European businesses.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to supply Europe with 15% of its energy needs by 2050.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Companies who signed up to the $400bn (£240bn) venture include Deutsche Bank, Siemens and the energy provider E.On.<span id="more-364"></span></strong></p>
<p>The consortium, which will be based in Munich, hopes to start supplying Europe with electricity by 2015.</p>
<p>Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to produce solar-generated electricity with a vast network of power plants and transmission grids across North Africa and the Middle East.</p>
<p>&#8220;The time has come to turn this vision into reality,&#8221; said the company&#8217;s chief executive, Paul van Son.</p>
<p>&#8220;That implies intensive co-operation with many parties and cultures, to create a sound basis for feasible investments into renewable energy technologies and interconnected grids.&#8221;</p>
<p>The first stage will be to build massive solar energy fields across North Africa&#8217;s Sahara desert, utilising concentrated solar power technology (CPS), which uses parabolic mirrors to focus the Sun&#8217;s rays on containers of water.</p>
<p><strong><em>&#8216;Pivotal initiative&#8217;</em></strong></p>
<p>The super-heated water will power steam turbines to generate electricity 24 hours a day, 52 weeks of the year.</p>
<p>The electricity will then be transported great distances to Europe, using hi-tech cables that suffer little conductive loss of power.</p>
<p>The move was &#8220;pivotal&#8221; in the transition of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East to sustainable energy supplies, said Mr Van Son.</p>
<p>Currently there are some small initiatives across Spain and parts of North Africa, but the scale of the Desertec initiative will surpass any other comparable projects.</p>
<p><strong><em>Strong desire</em></strong></p>
<p>The initiative has gained the support of the German government of Angela Merkel, who has already expressed a desire to offset a dependence on Russian gas supplies.</p>
<p>A number of North African countries have also expressed a strong desire to join the project, the company says, utilising their main sustainable natural resource &#8211; the Sun.</p>
<p>Some of the power generated by the Sahara solar energy fields will also be used by domestic African consumers, Desertec is keen to stress. North Africa has a small population relative to the size of its desert terrain, it says.</p>
<p>The concept was first announced in 2007 by the Desertec Foundation, with small pilot projects based in North Africa. Prince Hassan of Jordan has previously been mentioned as a big supporter.</p>
<p>Companies signed up to the consortium include ABB, Abengoa Solar, Cevital, HSH Nordbank, MAN Solar Millennium, Munich Re, M+W Zander, RWE and Schott Solar.</p>
<p>Source: BBC World</p>
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		<title>Bio-crops for the climate change in the Biotech Forum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The big race is for the corn&#8221; said Julio Ferrarotti. Throughout the world, researchers are seeking plants better adapted to stress. In the Biotech Forum, which will take place in Rosario on June 18 and 19, sponsored by Infocampo, will be presented the degree of progress that there is for the crops to have better [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biodiesel.com.ar/zenphoto/index.php?album=biodiesel&amp;image=MAIZ-etanol-expoagro.jpg"><img class="ZenphotoPress_thumb ZenphotoPress_right " style="float:right; " title="MAIZ-etanol-expoagro" src="http://www.biodiesel.com.ar/zenphoto/zp-core/i.php?a=biodiesel&amp;i=MAIZ-etanol-expoagro.jpg" alt="MAIZ-etanol-expoagro" /></a>&#8220;The big race is for the corn&#8221; said Julio Ferrarotti.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Throughout the world, researchers are seeking plants better adapted to stress. In the Biotech Forum, which will take place in Rosario on June 18 and 19, sponsored by Infocampo, will be presented the degree of progress that there is for the crops to have better performance in less favorable situations.<span id="more-331"></span></strong></p>
<p>&#8220;All lines of work related to heat stress, drought, cold, floods, are<br />
related to climate change, and in this sense what we are going to hear in<br />
the forum concerns to the progress in developed countries, in emerging ones, and, of course, in Argentina.&#8221; says Julio Ferrarotti, organizer with Pablo Adreani (Agripac).</p>
<p><strong><em>- What is being done in the world in terms of adaptation to drought?</em></strong></p>
<p>-At both private and public levels, there is much activity in the world in<br />
this issue. In the United States, the European Union, Japan, Australia,<br />
Brazil and Argentina there is aimed research. In our country, the station<br />
Obispo Colombres, in TucumÃ¡n, has an event for soybean that is at<br />
deregulation in the National Commission of Biotechnology, and Bioceres is<br />
also working with the Universidad Nacional del Litoral.</p>
<p><strong><em>- What mechanisms are involved in the adaptation of crops to water stress situations?</em></strong></p>
<p>There are several strategies that can be amplified genes or combined genes<br />
of amplified expression, which regulate defense mechanisms against drought, or it may be the introduction of inedit mechanisms, present in xerÃ³fitas species (adapted to dry climates) that are not present in cultivated<br />
species. Mechanisms are linked to stomatal closure, osmotic regulation, cell<br />
tolerance to plasmÃ³lisis, etcetera.</p>
<p>In legume we are working on the efficiency of biological nitrogen fixation,<br />
as it has been seen that a plant in a better nutritional status supports<br />
stress better. Ultimately, however, all lines are aimed at improving<br />
efficiency in water use, especially in a scene where the drought seems to be<br />
more frequent.</p>
<p><strong><em>- What degree of progress is there?</em></strong></p>
<p>Already, there are different announcements. In the United States have been<br />
shown plants to drought conditions compared to normal plants, and the<br />
positive effects are able to be seen of these transformed plants. Also, the<br />
Biotechnology Institute of Rosario is working on the issue of water shortage<br />
and the photos I saw about the experiments are more than auspicious.</p>
<p><strong><em>- What are the crops that are of most interest and when they could be released for production?</em></strong></p>
<p>-The great race is in the corn, which is a crop with high sensitivity to<br />
drought. However, soy is being worked in this direction. The &#8220;when&#8221; is most<br />
difficult to know because it depends on the regulatory processes.</p>
<p><strong><em>-What would have happened in this campaign of 2008/09 if farmers were able to use crops better adapted to dry conditions?</em></strong></p>
<p>-We would have had a lot less losses in performance. Perhaps much of the<br />
production could have been saved.</p>
<p>Source: ASA / Infocampo</p>
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		<title>Bio-directory, a search engine for agricultural and bioenergy companies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEXTFUEL ARGENTINA opens www.biodirectorio.com, a space for agricultural and bioenergy companies to offer their products and services; a thematic search engine of www.biodiesel.com.ar, one of the most visited sites on spanish-language about biodiesel, agriculture and renewable energy and with an excellent position in major Internet search engines as Google and Yahoo. We invite all companies [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>NEXTFUEL ARGENTINA opens </strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biodirectorio.com"><strong>www.biodirectorio.com</strong></a><strong>, a space for agricultural and bioenergy companies to offer their products and services; a thematic search engine of </strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biodiesel.com.ar"><strong>www.biodiesel.com.ar</strong></a><strong>, one of the most visited sites on spanish-language about biodiesel, agriculture and renewable energy and with an excellent position in major Internet search engines as Google and Yahoo.<span id="more-325"></span></strong></p>
<p>We invite all companies of bioenergy and agriculture, as well as organizations, associations, conferences, congresses and exhibitions on these subjects, to register on our Bio-directory, suggesting the category with which they wish to be found in searches.</p>
<p>The Bio-directory also has an english version, advanced search, search by alphabetical order and by category.</p>
<p>Be among the first to join your company to Bio-directory!</p>
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