In France, estimates for 2010/11 and 2011/12 use of soft wheat for ethanol production, both fuel and non-fuel, are seen as flat at around 1.6 million metric tons. Use in 2009/10 reached 1.5 million tonnes. The country’s soft wheat harvest for this year is seen down from last year’s production of 35.7 million tons to […]
In California, Global Intelligence Analysts announced the release of their global report on Renewable Chemicals market, forecasting it to reach US$76.8 billion by the year 2017. GIA sites sustained increase in crude oil prices and the need for new energy sources from eco-friendly feedstocks will rekindle investors’ interest and lead to improvements in capital spending […]
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In Italy, the UN Committee on World Food Security which falls under the FAO has issued a new report which says that biofuel policies in the US, EU and Brazil have significantly contributed to food price rises. The report is calling for the scrapping of these biofuel policies entirely as it claims that the mandates […]
In Thailand, the energy minister plans to meet with the excise department in order to relax ethanol export rules that will help to facilitate further trade. Domestic demand has fallen to 1 million liters per day from 1.3 million liters per day, against production capacity of 5 million liters per day, so the country’s 10 […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, retreated 0.95 percent to 71.74 as the broad equity markets fell. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) dropped 1.76 percent to $27.42, while Syntroleum (SYNM) slumped 8.42 percent to $0.87. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) advanced 0.80 percent to $10.02. Overall, declines led […]
Survey says: Biofuels and biomaterials growing rapidly, seeking new friends, markets In Florida, Biofuels Digest reports that 79 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic both about their organization’s prospects for growth and industry growth, than 12 months ago, and that 72 percent are more optimistic about the industry’s prospects than at this time in […]
In California and Brazil, Cobalt Technologies and Rhodia, a specialty chemical company, announced an MOU to develop bio n-butanol refineries throughout Latin America. It’s one of the first moves into the conversion of sugar cane bagasse into renewable fuels and chemicals. There are 2.3 billion tones of sugarcane grown annually, and around 714 million tonnes […]
In Indiana, it appears that Powers Energy of America no longer plans to build a $300 million trash-to-energy plant in Schneider despite several years of having an option on buying the planned location. The lot has recently been put up for sale after the option expired, leaving local officials with the impression that the project […]
In Iowa, Poet says that between its cellulosic ethanol plant coming online as well as Abengoa’s and BP’s, commercial-scale production may ‘surge’ in 2013, opening the proverbial floodgates of the fuel whose use has been mandated since 2009 but was not available. POET’s 25 million gallon Project Liberty is co-located with the company’s conventional ethanol […]
