In Iowa, new public opinion research shows a decisive 78 percent of voters in Iowa support expanding biofuel usage in the U.S. through the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. In addition, 77 percent of voters said it’s important to them that the president keep his promises on supporting the RFS. The Iowa Biodiesel Board commissioned the […]
In Finland, Meriaura and Stockholm Exergi have signed a contract for the sea transport of woodchips and woodpellets within the Baltic Sea by using climate friendly, 100% biofuel as power source. The contract is the first commercial contract based on Meriaura’s 2016 built, biofuel powered EcoCoaster vessels. When operated on waste-based or recycled second generation […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that the country exported the most ethanol in August since October 2013 at 314 million liters, up from 241 million liters in August 2018, thanks to sugar mills continuing to focus on ethanol production rather than sugar as has been the case for the past two years. August’s figure is also […]
In Germany, Clariant announced that it has conducted tests on approximately 30 tons of miscanthus provided by INA, Croatia’s leading oil and gas company. The miscanthus biomass was harvested and baled at the INA demonstration site in Croatia in February this year and shipped for processing to Clariant’s pre-commercial sunliquid plant in Straubing, Germany for […]
In Argentina, La Nación newspaper reports that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) producing biodiesel are upset by the government’s decision to freeze biodiesel prices for another 90 days, saying that the ruling is an arbitrary, discriminatory, and unilateral move by the government that will negatively impact producers, perhaps even causing them to shut down. Freezing […]
In South Dakota, Ringneck Energy’s CEO told Platts in an interview that the 80 million gallon per year facility expects to weather the current storms in the ethanol market that has forced more than a dozen ethanol plants to idle thanks to its modern technology and affordable feedstock. Many plants have suffered from negative ethanol […]
In Washington, Courthouse News reports that a DC district court ruled last Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency was right in its rulemaking of the Renewable Fuel Standard, ruling against complaints by both the oil industry who said blending mandates for 2014-2016 were too high as well as the biofuel industry who said they were […]
In India, Indian biomass-based energy company Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd. (PRESPL), has raised private equity investment from Shell. responsAbility was the first to invest during the company’s ‘Series-A’ in Sep 2013, followed by a ‘Series-B’ investment from Neev Fund in April 2019. With this follow-on fund investment by Shell, the ‘Series-B’ round of […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that despite a trade mission to China recently, including visiting COFCO who owns four Brazilian sugar mills, the country isn’t likely to see a large boost in Chinese ethanol demand last year. One key reason is that a COFCO official said China wasn’t likely to implement the E10 blending mandate as […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that German exports of rapeseed oil shrank for the second year running in the 2018/19 marketing year. Above all, demand from some EU member states dropped sharply. German exports of rapeseed oil slowed considerably in 2018/19 compared to the previous year and even decreased by as much as one third compared […]
