In Colorado, Colorado Mountain College, FluxFarm Foundation of Carbondale, Colorado State University and the city of Rifle, is building a new processing plant at the CMC Rifle campus that will convert biomass into biobutanol. A processing plant is under construction at CMC’s West Garfield Campus, and is expected to be operational soon. More on the […]
In the UK, more than 1,000 people have turned out to protest the laying off of 400 Redhall Engineering Solutions employees lost their jobs at Saltend Chemicals site owned by the British Sugar, DuPont and BP joint venture Vivergo when the contract was ended earlier this month. More on the story.
In South Africa, the region’s largest sugarcane producer, Illovo Sugar, says it may look at investment in fuel ethanol ‘if it makes commercial sense,’ meaning they’re waiting for a move from the Department of Energy. The company has been producing potable ethanol from sugarcane since the 1920s. More on the story.
In Bulgaria, the government has decided to postpone its mandatory biodiesel blend until next year in an effort to counteract rising prices at the pump. Not including biodiesel will cut prices by 4 cents per liter. Lukoil, which owns the country’s sole refinery, has put a one month moratorium on price hikes and says other […]
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In Massachusetts, Qteros is offering biofuel start-up companies about 2/3 of its new 15,000 square foot fermentation facility in Chicopee in order to help incubate local businesses that might be lured out of state. Qteros CEO John McCarthy said he was in discussion with ‘six or seven’ interested companies as well as with state officials […]
In South Dakota, money now used to give production incentive payments to ethanol plants will be redirected in the next five years to increase ethanol use by motorists and replenish a state economic development loan fund. The money saved would be redirected to economic development loans and grants for blender pumps and other efforts in […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.97 percent to 90.94 as Amyris plunged and Gevo soared. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) recovered 0.14 percent to $35.35, while Amyris (AMRS) dumped 7.88 percent to $27.25. Among other equities, Gevo gained 5.16 percent to $18.76. Overall, declines led advances […]
Not every biofuels story is about reaching massive industrial scale. The Digest looks at the latest economics and production specs for small-scale systems, led by the 100 KW, ethanol-based E-Fuel Microfueler NGOs in Africa have been touting for some time the use of ethanol cook stoves, to replace three-stone, wood based stoves that can trigger […]
In the Australian state of New South Wales, a conservative coalition swept into power in elections held this week. One coalition partner, the rural-based Nationals, won swings of up to 36 percent against the Labor Government, and took 18 out of 93 seats – a level of strength last seen in 1938. A one-off? A […]
