In India, the Press Trust of India reports that roughly 150 ethanol projects including greenfield projects and expansions have been proposed by sugar mills seeking soft loans announced back in June that would help them to diversify, boost their weak finances and help supply more ethanol for the 10% blending mandate. The majority of applications […]
In Oregon, NEXT Energy Group detailed plans to develop a $1.1 biofuel facility at Port Westward that would produce 37,500 barrels of renewable fuel per day including aviation biofuel. A development and lease agreement for about 80 acres with the port commissioners is taking place and could be finalized in the next few months but […]
In Brazil, the national fuels agency ANP saw 993.6 million liters of biodiesel sold at its most recent auction worth a total of $597.5 million, sold for just under 60 cents per liter. A total of 38 producers offer more than 1 billion liters for sale at the two-day auction, nearly 98% of which carried […]
In Mexico, Xinhua news agency reports that a researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico has warned climate change over the last decade has led Sargassum seaweed to invade beaches around the Caribbean, creating a threat to local ecosystems, but at the same time some believe the plant could be a good feedstock for […]
In India, Bloomberg reports that following the country’s first aviation biofuel-powered flight on Monday, the transportation minister announced a policy promoting the use of biofuels in commercial airplanes is under development. Rising fuel costs are hitting domestic airlines hard and some believe that aviation biofuel could be 30% cheaper than imported aviation fuels, but much […]
From Switzerland comes word of a technology for methanol synthesis plants which capture CO2 from the environment to create renewable methanol fuel. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s appropriately named Silent-Power. The company produces both industrial and modular plants and is working to bring modular plants to private residences to empower individuals with […]
Founded in 1902 and NYSE listed Since 1924, ADM is one of the premier global agribusinesses and a leading food ingredient provider with 31,000 employees, serving 170 countries and with 500 crop procurement locations, 270 ingredient plants and 44 innovation centers. The company gave this recent overview of its strategy, progress, promise and milestones along the way.
Recently, Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, UK-based chemical recycling company ReNew ELP, and Australian technology developer Licella (Cat-HTR™ process) joined forces in a development project to explore the potential of using mixed waste plastic as a raw material for fuels, chemicals, and new plastics. This brings me to the topic at hand […]
In India, SpiceJet is planning to operate a turboprop, Q-400, from Dehradun to Delhi using biofuel for the first time in India today. India has been promoting biofuels lately to reduce its dependence on fossil fuel and fuel imports. The Prime Minister recently release the national biofuels policy on “World Biofuel Day 2018,” as reported […]
In China, MotionEco launched one of the country’s first commercial efforts to collect and process used cooking oil and gutter oil for conversion to biodiesel. Gutter oil has been a big issue for China and MotionEco hopes this will help solve the problem by converting it into biofuel that can be used for road, marine […]
