In California, researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a partnership led by the University of California (UC) Berkeley that includes Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the BP energy company have developed a process that can be used to selectively upgrade alkyl methyl ketones derived from […]
In the Philippines, Universal Robina will commission its 46MW biomass-power facility on June 8. The $56.5 million facility uses bagasse from its sugar mill as feedstock. The company is also investing $35 million in a 30 million liter per year ethanol plant that will use molasses as feedstock.
In Swaziland, a new report estimates that energy produced from bagasse could meet half of the country’s electricity demand. The Swaziland Renewables Readiness Assessment recommends the country undertake various measures to support the implementation of renewable energy including: extending existing tax credits to the sugar industry to incentivize investment in more efficient equipment for bagasse-based […]
In Kenya, Mumias sugar intends to procure molasses and bagasse from rivals in order to boost ethanol and electricity production, following in the footsteps of Spectre International who produces ethanol using a similar model. Factory maintenance and 54% lower cane supplies cut ethanol revenues by 25% during the last reporting period.
In China, Pan Caribbean Sugar Company has announced that the company will be moving to convert bagasse into energy to make the company self-sufficient. Dr. Huaixiang (Harry) Wu, CEO of Pan Caribbean, projected that making use of the process after the sugar season, the company’s 10-megawatt generator could be used to develop bagasse into fuel […]
In Pakistan, the Business Recorder was informed by sources close to the Water and Power Minister that the cabinet’s Economic Co-ordination Committee is expected to approve a security agreement regarding upfront tariffs. The agreement is to be signed by sugar mills utilizing power plants burning bagasse. According to the article, the sugar mills have the […]
Raizen, Iogen commence construction on the first of what could be up to eight projects by 2024. After years of developing cellulosic ethanol technology in Canada, Iogen turns on the afterburners in Brazil with bagasse and cane straw. And finds the right partner in Raizen. In Brazil, Raizen has started construction on a 10 […]
In Brazil, GranBio and Rhodia have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the same raw material that is used to manufacture second-generation ethanol and which is abundant in Brazil. Under the partnership, the companies plan to build the world’s first […]
In South Africa, the government should decide by December RFPs provided by sugar mills last week to produce and supply sugarcane-based bagasse to the national grid. Mills could provide 800MW of electricity from existing bagasse supplies but the government has yet to respond with a feed-in tariff that would bring in the required investment.
Deployment of next-gen bagasse-to-biofuels technologies could expand ethanol production in Brazil, India by 35 percent without land, water intensification. After several years of technology and partnership development — advanced biofuels are coming to Brazil in a big way, and India may not be far behind. The reason? Opportunities with bagasse, the leftover from crushed cane […]
