In Taiwan, CPC Corp will convert eight stations E3 ethanol-blended gasoline next week. The Ministry of Economic Affairs had recently required 2,000 government vehicles in Taipei to use E3. The E3 program will be expanded to supply 3 million gallons of E3 to the southern regional city Kaohsiung, and expanding to 26 million gallons of E3 Taiwan-wide by 2011.
Arriva Portugal will convert its 240 bus fleet to biodiesel. Prio Advanced Fuels supply the fleet’s biofuels.
In Taiwan, Taiwan Sugar Corporation and Taiwan Cellular Ethanol have announced ethanol projects in support of the country's E3 mandate that takes effect in 2011. Taiwan Cellular said it will invest $9...
In Taiwan, the deputy director of the Agriculture and Food Agency said that Taiwan will switch emphasis to producing ethanol after yields from biodiesel feedstock cultivation had proven to be a disapp...
In Taiwan, researchers at the National Taiwan Ocean University announced that they have discovered a new bacterium, Shewanella decolorationis NTOU1, that treats wastewater while generating as much a...
In Taiwan, the newly elected government of Ma Ying-jeou is expected to halt biofuels development, and shift policy from the production of fuel from crops to increasing food productivity. The incoming ...
In Taiwan, the national government has imposed a B1 mandate that will take effect this week. Waste oil will be used as a feedstock, and the state oil company CPC and Formosa Petrochemical will absorb ...
In Portugal, Gleinol announced that it will invest $6 million in a biodiesel production unit in the Castelo Branco Industrial Area. The company had previously invested $800,000 in a 1500-acre pilot cu...
