In Florida, Green Equity Holdings and Strategic Energy Supplies, have signed an LOI to jointly build and deploy brown grease feedstock recycling plants nationwide. GEH has also begun an extensive due diligence review, and subject to satisfactory findings, the Company anticipates entering into a definitive agreement for the proposed joint venture on or before October […]
In Nebraska, Green Plains Renewable Energy, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Global Ethanol. Global owns two operating ethanol plants which are located in Lakota, IA and Riga, MI and have a combined annual production capacity of approximately 157 MGy. The acquisition will increase Green Plains’ capacity by 31% to […]
In Massachusetts, Verenium announced that it has launched a new high performance enzyme for the saccharification of liquefied starch in the fuel ethanol production process. The Deltazym GA L-E5 enzyme has demonstrated high ethanol yields at industrial scale using multiple substrates including corn, milo, barley, wheat and cassava. Verenium is reporting that customers using Fuelzyme […]
In Brazil, Cosan announced the inauguration of their newest ethanol, sugar and electricity facility in Caarapó. Listed as part of the Shell/Cosan joint venture Biofuels reported on August 26th, the facility will process 2.5 million tons of sugarcane to produce 90 Mly of ethanol (23 Mgy), 185,000 tons of sugar and cogenerate 76 MWh/yr of […]
In Vietnam, the government has intensified efforts to promote biofuel production under its biofuel development plan for 2015 and 2025. According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Energy, the country is focusing on several different feedstocks for both ethanol and biodiesel including cassava, coconut, sesame, peanut, flax and jatropha, and from animal products such as catfish […]
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In Indiana, the US Department of Energy awarded Purdue University a $1.59 million grant to conduct a sustainability assessment of energy crops for biofuels. The award is part of a $16.5 million renewable fuel initiative by the DOE to provide high-quality biomass while increasing economic viability for producers and improving the environment. Researchers at Purdue […]
In Washington, a group of trade associations and the Natural Resources Defense Council submitted a letter to the EPA opposing the approval of mid-level ethanol blends such as E12. The groups, which have been vigorously opposing the approval of E15 ethanol blends as well, expressed concerns regarding the lack of independent testing on “mid-level” ethanol […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.35 percent to 68.73 as ethanol stocks gyrated. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) lost 0.97 percent to $32.57, while BlueFire Renewables (BFRE.OB) gained 16.67 percent to $0.35 on a second day of enthusiasm following news of a new feedstock contract. Among […]
In Indonesia, Jatoil (ASX:JAT) announced it will boost its initial jatropha land holdings in Central Java, Indonesia, by 50% as it moves into the second stage of a joint venture, planting 500 hectares of additional land with jatropha. The company said that nurseries will be established in coming weeks to grow seedlings that will be […]
