In Iowa, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) recently sent letters to the Iowa Congressional delegation in an attempt to have the biodiesel tax incentive reinstated. The letter cautioned that the leaders should not falter after the biodiesel industry’s recent progress, arguing that the biodiesel industry has stalled since the expiration of the tax credit […]
In New York, CNN featured an article on SGB’s jatropha vision. The optimistic article details the history of SGB’s financing from angel investors and Flint Hill Resources, but also cautions that potential changes in renewable energy policies could be devastating for the company: “Jatropha needs to prove it can be an economical alternative to conventional […]
In New York, Renewable Energy Group (REG) is expanding its metropolitan distribution terminals. Focusing on end markets, the company installed four distribution points to offer quick access for blending biodiesel to augment heating oil and diesel supplies. Said Daniel Oh, president and CEO: “Gaining access to the largest biodiesel terminal network in New York is […]
In Canada, Bedford Biofuels is considering aborting their Kenyan jatropha plan to cultivate 60,000 hectares of the crop after four years of failures have left the leased land completely undeveloped. Bedford cites the poor economic climate as the reason the project has been largely unable to accrue investment. While the project aims at eventually constructing […]
In Indonesia, palm oil output is expected to climb 7 percent next year to 27 million tonnes, reports Fadhil Hasan, executive director at the Indonesian Palm Oil Association. Three years ago, expansion efforts planted approximately 200,000 new hectares which are expected to fruit for the first time this year. Hasan projected that growth of 200,000 […]
British Airways announced they have committed to buying $500M in aviation biofuel produced at the GreenSky London facility for the next ten years and consent is now being sought to begin construction of the facility at a site in East London. GreenSky London is a joint development between British Airways and Solena and once built will […]
In New York, a $910,000 grant from the DOE was awarded to a Cornell research team working on an algae project aimed at redesigning a bioreactor that delivers light efficiently. The “optofluidic reactor” will deliver light to algae growing on low-cost sheets and then collect fuel through porous tubes; the reactor will be able to […]
In Florida, AAA is reporting that a recent survey finds a strong likelihood of consumer confusion and the potential for voided warranties in the use of E15 gasoline. AAA reports, “An overwhelming 95 percent of consumers surveyed have not heard of E15, a newly approved gasoline blend that contains up to 15 percent ethanol. With […]
In Illinois, the Illinois Basin-Decatur Project has reached its first capture milestone with its CCS plant sequestering CO2 from an ethanol facility operated by Archer Daniels Midland. Operations at the first large scale carbon-capture plant began a year ago, injecting 1000 metric tons of CO2 a day into the Mount Simon Sandstone saline reservoir, and […]
In Illinois, Chicago Biofuels is looking into sunflower oil as a possible feedstock. The company currently focuses on using cooking oils from city restaurants, but is looking into planting sunflowers in the cities vacant lots as sunflowers can remove the polluting lead from the soil in these lots. The company harvested 11 pounds of seeds […]
