In Nebraska, Green Plains Energy’s CEO says he expects 2011’s ethanol exports to be double of that of 2010’s 400 million gallons, partly due to increased demand from Brazil’s Northeast which is seeing a regional ethanol deficit after a poorer-than-expected sugarcane harvest. More on the story.
In Florida, a group of unnamed investors are developing a $300 million, 200 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Gibsonton off of US 41 under the auspices of Sunshine Way Ethanol. Hillsborough county officials are working to help expedite the planning and permitting processes. Twenty-seven South Florida farmers will switch from their current crops to […]
In Singapore, Platts has introduced the first daily price reporting in Asia directed at ethanol imports in the Philippines. The four new price references reflect values determined in the open marketplace between buyer and seller for undenatured anhydrous ethanol. The prices are for: Ethanol CIF Philippines at 45 days forward, 60 days forward, an average […]
In Brazil, BM&F BOVESPA has reached a trading record in February with its new hydrous ethanol contract at 6,130 contracts, compared with the previous high of 5,486 contracts in December, and nearly double January’s 3,221 contracts. More on the story.
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In Singapore, a new study released by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore says up to 6% of CO2-absorbing peatlands in Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra were converted to palm oil plantations by the early 2000s, leading to a decline in biodiversity (16 species of birds in Sumatra alone) and the […]
In Washington, a routine media query turned up an interesting fact in the way that support for agricultural research is divided in the US government. Reporter Bob Brooks followed up on the Digest’s story on phosphorus reserves with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, asking about opportunities with and research in aqua farming and salt-water tolerant […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.92 percent to 89.67 as ag and oil stocks fell. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.57 percent to $36.74, while Biofuel Energy (BIOF) jumped 5.26 percent to $1.00. Among other equities, Gushan (GU) soared 6.28 percent to $4.91. Overall, declines […]
By Biofuels Digest columnist and Growth Energy co-chairman General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) Note from the editor: We are delighted to have General Clark join our roster of distinguished Digest monthly columnists, bringing his unique experience in national and global security to the discussion on renewable energy. While I was teaching economics at West Point in […]
On the eastern coast of Australia not far south of the Queensland-New South Wales border lies the “banana republic” of Coffs Harbor, notable for many years as the center of Australia’s banana industry but also a laid-back, holiday-town lifestyle featuring some decent three-meter surfing conditions, and a forty-foot long banana sculpture known, unsurprisingly, as the […]
