Posts Tagged ‘ethanol’
18 May 2012
Sempra US Gas & Power and BP Wind Energy have joined forces for a fifth time to jointly develop the Auwahi Wind farm in Hawaii.
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30 April 2012
Alternative fuels company China New Energy has signed agreement of intent with China’s state-owned Jilin Ethanol Industrial Company, to upgrade a biofuel plant.
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3 April 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency has approved the first application for registration of ethanol for use in making gasoline that contains 15 per cent ethanol, or E15.
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2 April 2012
A developer of ethanol production facilities working out of the US state of Nebraska is $1.95m on the way to completing a $5m debt financing round.
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13 March 2012
A Brazilian energy company has revealed it will buy a cogeneration plant at a sugar cane mill as it attempts to become the country’s largest renewable energy supplier and take to the public markets.
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21 December 2011
Sweden’s Development Finance Institution Swedfund has committed €10m to Addax Bioenergy Sierra Leone as part of a €267m deal to further sustainable agricultural processes in the country.
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12 December 2011
US renewable fuels developer Mascoma has formed an agreement with oil refiner and ethanol producer Valero Energy, to construct a 20 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol facility in Kinross, Michigan.
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2 November 2011
A European association of biofuel producers has called on the European Commission to act against what it has described as ‘unfair’ imports of fuel ethanol from the US.
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12 September 2011
Renewable energy group NTR has struck a $28m deal to sell 3.5 million shares of ethanol specialist Green Plains back to the company as it rebalances its portfolio of cleantech investments.
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30 August 2011
Global production of biofuels increased 17 per cent in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion litres, up from 90 billion litres in 2009.
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19 August 2011
A joint venture by the São Martinho Group and Petrobras Biocombustível will invest BRL520.7m ($74m) in building the world's largest ethanol plant.
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12 August 2011
Brazilian energy group Petrobras said it will spend $570m over the next five years on ethanol acquisitions to bolster its business in the sector.
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11 August 2011
Given that Australia’s southern region imports all of its transportation fuels from overseas, the prospect of a local fuel source could signal a timely solution to oil price fluctuations and potential energy shortages.
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25 July 2011
Brazil's biofuels industry is again in the spotlight as Brasil Ecodiesel Industria & Comercio de Biocombustiveis & Oleos Vegetais vote on a proposed merger with Vanguarda do Brasil.
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20 July 2011
The Dow Chemical Company has carried out its largest investment yet into Brazil through entering a joint venture with Mitsui & Co that will target the biofuels market, in what represents the world's largest biopolymer play.
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8 July 2011
The US ethanol tax credit looks to be in danger after three senators reached a deal to repeal the $6bn annual subsidy.
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8 July 2011
US-based Poet, which claims to be the largest ethanol producer in the world, has received a conditional commitment for a $105m cellulosic ethanol loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.
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17 June 2011
Political sentiment in the US swung away from supporting the ethanol industry yesterday, with the US Senate voting to scrap key subsidies.
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10 June 2011
Prices of ethanol in the US have continued to rise - hitting their highest level in three years - after flooding cut corn plantings.
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11 May 2011
Canadian next generation ethanol producer GreenField Ethanol has launched a vehicle to acquire and commercialise its patented technology.
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