In Brazil, the energy ministry is estimating ethanol production to reach 64 billion liters in 2019 compared to 26 billion liters produced today. Currently 47% of Brazil’s energy comes from renewable sources with 18% coming from the sugarcane industry. More on the story.
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In Norway, a spin-off of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) known as MemfoACT has secured $4.1 million to commercialize its carbon membrane can transform low-grade biogas into valuble biofuel that can be used in cars, buses and trucks. The technology will first be used to upgrade units that produce biomethane from biogas. […]
In Belgium, the European Commission is being sued yet for lack of transparency in its biofuels policy making. Plaintiffs, led by ClientEarth, are claiming that the EC failed to disclose emails related to a study published in April that included negative details about the impacts of biofuels. The suit was filed in the EU’s General […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 0.68 percent to a new four-month high of 68.51. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.30 percent to $32.85, while in the oil sector BP fell 0.23 percent to $38.59. Among other equities, PetroAlgae (PALG.OB) fell 14.75 percent to $10.23. Overall, […]
The US election season is upon us, and it is a hostile takeover environment if ever there was one. Rollbacks and repeals are at the top of the Republican agenda on many fronts. Yet biofuels has enjoyed bipartisan support – with Senators like Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Thune of South Dakota among the […]
The United Nations Environment Programme has released its Bioenergy Issue Paper Series No. 4, “Engaging Stakeholders on Bioenergy Development.” UNEP officials said that the paper “gives decision-makers, on both a policy level and project level, an outline of the key processes that are needed for stakeholder engagement in bioenergy planning. It illustrates the importance of […]
In the UK, Energy and Climate Change minister Chris Huhne said that the UK had to step up domestic production of renewable fuel if EU goals were to be met by 2020, and observed that the UK is ahead of only Malta and Luxembourg in the production of renewable energy. “There will be plenty of […]
In Kansas, Brighter Energy.org is reporting that Abengoa Bioenergy is on track to be operational at its proposed Hugoton-based cellulosic ethanol plant by 2013, and said that it has contracted for as much as 60 percent of the feedstock needed to supply the plant. The company said that it had still not completed its process […]
In Tennessee, Renewable Algal Energy announced that it has received a $3 million award under the Department of Energy’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase III Xlerator program for its project entitled “Algal Biodiesel via Innovative Harvesting and Aquaculture Systems. ” The Phase III Xlerator grants are a ‘first’ for the Department of Energy, and […]
