In Washington, the US has produced over 1 billion gallons of biodiesel for 2011 according to year-end numbers released by the EPA. December of 2011 alone saw a record-breaking 160 million gallons of biomass-based biodiesel produced. Says Ane Steckel, vice-president of federal affairs for the National Biodiesel Board, “We’ve been seeing a lot of stories […]
In Washington, a process to convert wood waste and forest residue into renewable fuel has been validated by Energy Department partners at ThermChem Recovery International (TRI). This data will benefit two pulp and paper mills in Wisconsin who will be integrating the gasification and gas-to-liquids technology to produce diesel fuel and paraffin waxes. The next […]
In Brazil, analysts predict that the global sugar surplus will halve by next season. Says Jonathan Kingsman, managing director of Laussanne-based consultancy Kingsman SA, “This may be through a fall in world prices big enough to persuade millers in the centre-south of Brazil to produce more ethanol and less sugar.” Estimates place “ethanol parity”– the […]
In Germany, the recent “Fuels of the Future” conference in Berlin saw the biofuel sector asking for follow-up regulation after the Energy Tax Act is due to expire at the end of this year. An alternative to the current tax concession is urged, perhaps including a trade quota based on marketed clean fuels whereby biodeisel […]
