By Tony C. Dreibus – Jun 7, 2011 10:30 AM GMT-0300.Increased demand for vegetable oils to make biodiesel will lead to shortages of the materials, raising the cost of fats used to make food, Oil World said.

Argentina is expected to produce 2.3 million metric tons of biodiesel, made from soybeans, this year, up 27 percent from 2010, Oil World said in a report today. Exports may total 1.5 million tons, according to the report. In Brazil, biodiesel output may gain 14 percent, Oil World said. Leer más »

Argentina exported U.S. $ 2,200 million for two million tonnes of biofuels by the end of 2011, which will make the country the second largest exporter, as indicated by INTA specialists during a workshop on international and national institutions of the European Union.

“By the end of 2011 is expected to produce 3,200,000 tons of biofuel as an exportable surplus will leave about two million tonnes. The rest will be input for the domestic market, “said the coordinator of the National Bioenergy National Institute of Technology Agropecuaria (INTA) Jorge Hilbert. Leer más »

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: Leer más »

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government is negotiating a plan to reduce diesel imports by making energy companies blend more of the fuel with soy-based biodiesel within the next year, industry sources said on Wednesday.

A new law requiring all diesel to be mixed with 5 percent of the plant-based fuel came into force earlier this year in the South American country, the fourth-biggest global biodiesel producer and top supplier of soybean oil. Leer más »

Juan Bisquert, professor of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, expert in plastic solar cells, new presenter in the International Monographic Conference “Low Cost Solar Energy” that will take place in Seville, next December 11th.Â

Juan Bisquert is professor of Applied Physics and directs the Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló. Through his participation in the international monographic conference “Low Cost Solar Energy” we will get to know the advances obtained around the plastic solar cells. Leer más »

The Spanish energy company Iberdrola will invest around 5.144 million Eurus (8.000 million dollars), in the renewable energy sector in United States between 2008 and 2010. Leer más »