In Spain, Alcoholes Biocarburantes de Extremadura (Albiex) has commenced construction of a 29 Mgy corn ethanol plant near Badajoz, which will also produce 87,000 metric tonnes of distillers grains for livestock feed. Total plant investment is $59 million and plant is expected to open in 2009.
Abengoa said this week it has shut down ethanol production at its largest Spanish plant because ethanol is currently unprofitable due to high feedstock prices and the current outlook for ethanol in Spain. The plant was idled for the same reason earlier this year.
Abengoa has two other Spanish plants which remain in production; recently the company put a 27 Mgy US plant in Mexico up for sale and announced it would be concentrating on larger ethanol plants as well as cellulosic ethanol research.
Abengoa says it has shut down ethanol production at its largest Spanish plant because ethanol is currently unprofitable due to high feedstock prices and the current outlook for ethanol in Spain. The p...
In Spain, the CEO of Abengoa said that its Salamanca ethanol plant could remain closed "Frankly, forever," unless Spain moves to implement the EU 5.75 percent biofuels mandate....
In Spain, Sniace delayed the opening of three ethanol plants in Spain and Poland after problems in obtaining construction permits. The plants will now be operational in 2009. The company will produce ...
In Spain, BDI Biodiesel announced that it has commenced production at its 200,000 tonne biodiesel plant in Ferrol. The project, which cost $69 million, is the sixth plant opened by BDI in Spain; the o...
In Kansas, Spanish biofuels company Abengoa expects to commence full-scale cellulosic ethanol production in 2011. The company is currently constructing its production facility in Hugoton, Kansas, and ...
Abengoa Bioenergy is putting a small New Mexico ethanol plant up for sale to concentrate on cellulosic ethanol and larger scale corn ethanol projects. The Portales, N.M. facility produces 27 Mgy of co...
