In Pennsylvania, Air Liquide is setting up a CO2 collection facility at the Clearfield Bionol ethanol plant for supply to the beverages industry and for producing dry ice. Construction of the adjacent plant could begin within the next 18 months. Air Liquide was attracted to the site because of the ethanol plant’s location close to […]
In Panama, the country is preparing to introduce an ethanol mandate beginning with 2% in April 2013, rising to 5% from April 2014, hitting 7% in April 2015 and reaching 10% by April 2016. More on the story.
In Brazil, analysts are already predicting that the country will face an ethanol shortage next year and it’s likely to be even worse than the current shortage as producers fail to keep up with increasing demand. E25 is up 25% from the previous week at $1.67 per liter, which is double the price from January. […]
In Sweden, E85 sales soared 27% during March, year-on-year, in response to higher gas prices. The January to March sales figure is up almost 20% on the year. Gasoline is currently around $2.23 per liter while E85 is $1.58. More on the story.
JennyKoenigsfel: As for biofuels, we would need to consume land the size of states to hit the country’s current ethanol targets ElisabethGwen: The USDA & DoE up to US$30 million over 3-4 years for research & development of biofuels, bioenergy and high-value bio-based products QB3: Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley puts out new biofuels […]
In Maryland, Robert Kozak, president of Atlantic Biomass Conversions, wrote in Advanced Biofuels USA that using biofuels production processes to create animal feed as co-products can earn the producer more on a pound-for-pound basis than corn ethanol, and that by retaining plant amino acids, the income from the feedstock used for high protein animal feed […]
In Washington, the World Bank is putting partial blame for food riots and unrest in North Africa on national policies that promote biofuel use—especially pointing the finger at US use of 1/3 of its corn crop for ethanol. World Bank head Robert Zoellick is calling for biofuel policies to be relaxed during times of food […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell for the eighth consecutive session, by 1.60 percent to 90.37 as early-stage stocks continued their slide. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.09 percent to $34.45 while Gevo (GEVO) plummeted 5.26 percent to $19.27. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) fell 3.37 […]
The race for biofuels parity and scale shapes up as a square dance involving four technologies, with some hybrids in the middle, and a dance with a lass named Sara. There’s Codexis, Amyris, Gevo, and now Solazyme and KiOR on the way. The rush to public markets for capital to scale up biofuels technologies is […]
In Minnesota, Katharine Tinucci, Press Secretary for Governor Mark Dayton stated the $79 million agricultural funding bill will most likely be signed by the Governor. The bill calls for the spending to be spread over the next two years, of which $13.7 million will be paid to ethanol producers. While Minnesota started paying producers over […]
