In the Philippines, where a sugar shortage is looming, concerns are rising over the availability of cane and its competition with ethanol. The government has introduced ethanol blending policies and is pushing for ethanol production, but sugarcane area has fallen by 10,000 hectares rather than increased by 200,000 hectares because a cane development program wasn’t […]
In Panama, the government is investing $2 million in a 10,000-liter per day biodiesel plant in Colon province that is set to go online during the first trimester of 2011. The facility, developed a Brazilian biofuels research consortium, will use locally-produced palm oil and used cooking oil as feedstocks. More on the story.
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In Washington, C. Boyden Gray, one of the architects of the historic 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments that established the nation’s reformulated gasoline program, called for increased regulation of air toxics by the Environmental Protection Agency and in so doing, increasing the market for ethanol. Writing in an Ethanol Across America White Paper, Mr. Gray […]
In Washington, looming deadlines to keep in mind for the US Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program are: November 30, 2010 – is the last day to submit final Part I applications and the first Part II applications for DOE’s Manufacture Commercial Technology Renewable Energy Systems and Components Solicitation (2010). Applicants who apply under the […]
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In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association says that weekly production of ethanol dropped during the week ending Sept. 24 to 825,000 barrels per day, down from the previous week’s 850,000 bpd and the four week average of 856,000 bpd. Ethanol stocks also fell to 17.2 million barrels. More on the story.
In South Dakota, the EPA has reached agreements with POET, James Valley and Northern Lights over Clean Air Act violations at ethanol plants in Groton and Big Stone. The EPA says James Valley, Northern Lights and POET have agreed to a $150,000 fine, and Dakota Ethanol will pay $75,000 under a separate agreement. The plants […]
In California, BlueFire Renewables announced that it has finalized and signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its cellulosic ethanol project in Fulton, MS. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (MTZ) , for a fixed price of $296 million which includes […]
In Hungary, executives from Fagen joined their clients Pannonia Ethanol in Dunaföldvár, at the groundbreaking of the 53 Mgy Dunaföldvár Ethanol Plant, 50 miles south of Budapest along the Danube. Materials from Fagen and Par Piping were shipped in 15 teuckloads in support of the plants construction effort. The corn ethanol project is expected to […]
