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. Leer más »

Progress in the use of biofuels for power generation..

On May 20 the government announced the GENREÂ program (Renewable Generation), by which the state company ENARSA will call for tender the purchase of electricity produced through renewable energy. Leer más »

Developer. De Souza Meirelles is leading a project for expansion of ethanol.

Interview with brazilian producer Joao Carlos de Souza Meirelles.

His company, Frontera Norte, is working on the development of new agricultural zones, founded three cities and colonized one million hectares, mostly in Mato Grosso. Strong commitment to energy sugar cane.

Frontera Norte Ingeniería de Desarrollo Limitada is a company with over 30 years in the development of large zones of new agricultural frontiers of Brazil. “We did what we call in Portuguese, colonization.” said to “La Voz del Campo” the engineer Joao Carlos de Souza Meirelles, group member and former secretary of agriculture of the state of San Pablo. Coming from a family of Portuguese immigrants but with several generations among Brazilian farmers, De Souza Meirelles is one of the “fathers” of the raise of Brazil as the first world exporter of beef. Leer más »

BIOFUELS.

The international financial crisis disrupted the business plans of the regional companies.

Oil industrials looking forward the national government to speed up the commercialization for biofuels in the domestic market of biofuels to face the retraction of the international markets.

In this way it was told in San Lorenzo to deputy Marcelo Fernandez, who is vice president of the SME comission and is chairman of the Central General Económica, a business group close to the national government.

After his visit to Rosario on thursday, where he met with businessmen in the city, he went to San Lorenzo to meet with local executives and visited the biodiesel plants of Bioenergía Patagonia and Vicentin. Leer más »

This is the first time that happens. Until november last year U.S. was the main customer. The export prices of biofuel are still low around USD 730 per tonne.

Last april Argentine declared biodiesel exports for 108,573 tonnes by a weighted average price of USD733/t, a value similar to that recorded in march (USD738/t).

Photo: Emilio López King-Archivo Nextfuel Argentina/Biodiesel.com.ar

Altough prices are still the same since last december with almost all Argentine biodiesel plants operating losses, the amount declared in april increased by 27% compared to march 2009 (84.900 tonnes) and is the highest since october 2008, when sales were recorded for 118,901 tons. Leer más »

Kyung Wook Hur, Vice Minister, Ministry of Strategy and Finance of Korea; and Luis Alberto Moreno, President, IDB, signed a memorandum of understanding to promote programs and projects that foster cooperation between them and, in particular, activities related to green growth, sustainable energy and climate change.

Photo: Árlette Pedraglio

The Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will sign a an agreement to co-finance public and private sector projects worth as much as $2 billion in the next three years in Latin America and the Caribbean. Leer más »

WASHINGTON, (Reuters). – The future of the biodiesel market is in unstable land, because the closing of the legal lagoon of a fiscal credit and new European import tariffs could reduce the trade, said the Energy Information Administration. Â

It is expected that in 2009 in United States and with the standards of the renewable fuel, 500 million gallons (1900 million liters) of biodiesel be blended with diesel, a biofuel elaborated starting from oils or of animal fats. Â

The figure should be increased by law to 1000 million biodiesel gallons for 2012. This, together with the rise of the fuel prices, generated an increase in the production in the last years, and the tributary incentives sent great part of the fuel to the foreigner, in accordance with the EIA. Leer más »

Berlin, Jan 26(EFE). – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) held today it’s Founding Conference in Bonn, in an act in which Spain was represented by the minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastian, and the secretary of State for the Climatic Change, María Teresa Ribera Rodríguez.    Â

IRENA is fruit of a German initiative, to which Spain and Denmark were added, and it has as objective the renewable energy promotion in the entire world and to overcome the obstacles that these find in its development. Leer más »

Important announcements are made by the minister of Energy in the University of Antofagasta.Â

Authority valued the significant advance in project on Biohydrocarbide that develop scientists of the UA and of the CICITEM. Also, he walked around the facilities where the goldens are cultivated. Â

The creation of a Ministry of Energy, a Center of Renewable Energy, an agency for the implementation of actions of energy efficiency and the constant impulse to the renewable energy development, was announced by the minister of the National Energy Commission, Marcelo Tokman, during a walk around the facilities of the Faculty of Sea Resources of the University of Antofagasta.  Leer más »

Exemplary enterprise of the small State. RECEPTORS. 2.400 solar panels cover the roof of the audience room. REUTER Â

The installation will help so that 20% of the energy that the Vatican consumes comes from renewable sources by 2020.Â

VATICAN. – A photovoltaic system for the solar energy use was inaugurated officially in the Vatican. The Pope Benedict XVI offered his first general “ecological” audience in the room that leads to the St. Peters Square, on whose roof around 2.400 solar modules were installed during the last two and a half months. Leer más »