In California, AE Biofuels wholly owned subsidiary AE Advanced Fuels Keyes has restarted operation at their 55 MGy facilities in Keyes, with about 50 full time employees. Reportedly, the facility has a positive energy balance of 2.6:1, and a nearly zero water discharge. The plant has a natural gas and steam powered turbine cogeneration unit […]
In California, OriginOil has announced that its joint venture partner in France, Ennesys, is working with large institutions on developing two large scale algae projects. In office building applications, Global 500 multinational Bouygues Construction engaged Ennesys to study the integration of waste water algae production in two massive building projects in the Greater Paris region, […]
In Canada, BIOX, a Canadian biodiesel producer, announced that it has received an exemption from the European Union on tariffs which the European Commission has implemented on Canadian and U.S. imports of biodiesel. BIOX is one of only two entities in North America to receive an exemption. While BIOX’s principle customers are in North American, […]
In Hungary, oil and gas company MOL is planning to collect waste cooking oil at its 100 gas stations around the country beginning in mid-May. The UCO will be processed into biodiesel by Rossi Biofuel’s unit in Komárom.
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In Belgium, the China Air Transport Association has stated that they oppose having their flights into Europe included in the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme. The ETS requires that all emitters to buy permits for each tonne of CO2 released, above a certain cap. The program is scheduled to start on January 1, 2012 and […]
In California, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced that Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers have found a way to help microbes survive the toxicity caused by the very compounds that they secrete in order to produce biofuels. Many of the best candidate compounds for advanced biofuels are toxic to microbes, which presents a “production versus survival” […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 89.57, as ethanol stocks continued to take a beating. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.86 percent to $32.30, while Aventine (AVRW) fell 7.14 percent to $19.50 after releasing earnings for the quarter. Among other equities, Biofuels Energy (BIOF) […]
An interview with James Garton, president of Mission Biofuels USA subsidiary. We look at the jatropha 1.0 catastrophe, actual biodiesel capacity in the US, palm biodiesel, the RFS, and more. “We see real opportunity in 2011-13 to make money in biodiesel,” Mission NewEnergy’s James Garton told the Digest when we caught up recently. The company, […]
In California, Sapphire Energy has teamed with Linde AG to co-develop a low-cost system to deliver carbon dioxide (CO2) to commercial-scale, open-pond, algae-to-fuel cultivation systems. Linde, the leading merchant CO2 supplier in the U.S., will partner with Sapphire Energy, to reduce the costs associated with the delivery of anthropogenic CO2 for commercial-scale open pond algae cultivation. […]
