Posts Tagged ‘bioethanol’

7 September 2009

Vietnam’s PetroVietnam starts work on $80m bioethanol plant

Vietnam's state oil and gas group PetroVietnam has started work on its $80m bioethanol plant in central Quang Ngai province, according to reports.

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3 September 2009

AE Biofuels, Pearson Fuels project awarded $6.9m US Department of Energy Grant

Biofuels companies AE Biofuels, Inc. and Pearson Fuels have been awarded a $6.9m grant from the US Department of Energy, through its Clean Cities programme.The Southern California Association of Governments applied for the money through their Clean Cities Coalition, The Partnership.

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30 June 2009

Green fuels to transport politicians at Copenhagen’s Climate Change Conference

Partnership for Biofuels, a co-operation between Danisco's biotech division Genencor, Inbicon, Novozymes and Statoil, will ensure that politicians at this year's Copenhagen-based United Nations Climate Change Conference will be transported using environmentally friendly fuel.

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22 June 2009

Khosla Ventures invests in US biofuels company Cello Energy

Green investment firm Khosla Ventures has invested $12.5m into biofuels company Cello Energy, according to reports. Cello Energy is based in Alabama, US and develops cellulosic ethanol from waste. Earlier this month, alongside venture capital fund Burrill & Company, Khosla Ventures invested in biomass technology company HCL CleanTech. Khosla Ventures offers venture assistance, strategic advice[...]

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18 June 2009

POET announces new division devoted to the biofuel feedstocks

Feedstock supply and logistics, among the chief challenges to commercialising the production of biofuels from new feedstocks, will be a key focus of a new division at biofuel company POET, the company announced today.

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3 June 2009

Welsh research project seeks to develop biofuel from grass

Welsh scientists are working on a research project to turn grass into a green transport fuel. The £1m ‘Grassohol' research project aims to develop commercially and economically viable processes to make ethanol from perennial ryegrass - the most commonly sown grass in the UK which is normally used for grazing or silage.

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20 May 2009

Valero Energy takes stake in venture-backed US biofuel company Qteros

US energy company Valero Energy Corp. has become an investor in biofuel company Qteros through its acquisition of certain assets of Verasun Energy.

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3 April 2009

VeraSun Energy completes sale of its US ethanol facilities to Valero Renewable Fuels

US ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp has finalised the sale of its assets to Texan refiner Valero Renewable Fuels, which includes five ethanol production facilities and a development site, located across the US states of Iowa and Minnesota.

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25 March 2009

US biofuel company Novozymes to invest between $160-200m in Nebraska bioethanol production facility

Novozymes, a US bioethanol company, will invested between $160-200m in a new bioethanol production facility in Nebraska, US, in order to meet demand for enzymes.

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18 March 2009

Valero Renewable Fuels successfully bids for VeraSun Energy’s biofuel facilities

Valero Renewable Fuels has successfully bid for ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp.'s assets contained in the VSE Group as well as bioethanol production facilities in Albion, Nebraska and Iowa, following an auction.

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10 March 2009

Biofuels company KL Energy closes $4m financing round

Biofuels development company KL Energy Corp. has received $4m of additional capital. The funding round was led by previous investors Niton Capital and The Green Fund, who together originally invested $6.1m in October 2008, and also Warcoing Sucre and Pierre de Boeck.

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5 March 2009

Brazilian oil giant Petrobras to invest $2.8bn in biofuels

Brazilian oil company Petrobras is to invest $2.4bn in biodiesel and ethanol production for the 2009-2013 period, 91 per cent of which to be made in Brazil. This amount is part of the total of $2.8bn Petrobras earmarked for the biofuels business, which also foresees expenditures of $400m in infrastructure, such as ethanol pipelines. The total resources represent an 87 per cent increase compared to the previous business plan, the company said.

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25 February 2009

Mascoma Corporation starts producing ethanol from New York facility

Mascoma Corporation, a developer of cellulosic ethanol, is now producing ethanol from non-food cellulosic biomass at its New York facility.

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3 February 2009

Novozymes, COFCO and Sinopec team up to produce bioethanol from waste

Industrial enzymes developer Novozymes and Chinese partner COFCO, a supplier of processed agricultural products, have signed an agreement with Chinese oil and energy company Sinopec to develop bioethanol from agricultural waste.

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24 January 2009

NewNet Investor Profile, Eduardo Giuliani, Venture Partners do Brasilp

Eduardo Giuliani discusses the Brazilian venture capital scene and the future for biofuels. 'The use of these inefficient biomasses will soon stop, and other, more advanced biomasses, will replace them, offering a genuine solution. It makes perfect sense, putting carbon in the atmosphere and taking it back. It is sustainable.'

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19 January 2009

Range Fuels receives $80m loan guarantee from US Department of Agriculture

Range Fuels, a low-carbon fuels company, has received an $80m loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture to assist in the construction of the company's commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgia.

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16 January 2009

Novus Energy, Oxford Catalysts Group team up on biofuel quest

Novus Energy has teamed up with Oxford Catalysts Group to develop technology for the production of second-generation fuel grade alcohols from organic wastes.

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13 January 2009

University of Milan orders bioethanol fuel cell technology

Helbio, a subsidiary of Morphic Technologies, has received an order from the University of Milano for a bio-ethanol-fuelled Fuel Cell Power System.

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12 January 2009

Enerkem enters start-up phase of its new biofuel plant

Biofuels technology company Enerkem has entered the start-up phase of its first commercial-scale plant in Quebec, Canada.

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24 November 2008

Taurus Energy, SEKAB develop new biofuel

Swedish researchers at R&D company Taurus Energy, renewable fuel supplier SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund have signed an agreement on the development and implementation of a new biotechnical process for production of ethanol.

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