In Ohio, the Air Force Research Laboratory Alternative Fuels Team is the recipient of the 2011 Theodore von Karman Award. The Theodore von Karman Award is the highest research award provided from the Air Force Association in recognition of the most outstanding contribution in the field of science and engineering. The AFRL Fuels team research […]
In South Africa, the Department of Energy has issued a draft policy that would mandate E5 and B2 blending. The policy is open for public comment until Nov. 18. The Department of Energy is also working on two other complementary regulations: the pricing and the financial support mechanisms, which will also be submitted for public […]
In the Philippines, ethanol producers have agreed with the Independent Philippine Petroleum Companies Association on benchmark prices for ethanol— based on both the prices of sugar and molasses, plus the processing cost— but the deal is waiting for sign off from the Department of Energy. It was also agreed that domestic ethanol should not be […]
In the EU, Ends Europe is reporting that the key missing factor to Europe’s fledgling next generation biofuels industry is a lack of policy support that would promote the R&D, pilots and investment needed to get new technologies off the ground. Industry wants to see targets for advanced biofuels, not unlike what is included in […]
In Minnesota, the Algal Biomass Organization announced its support for the Renewable Fuel Parity Act of 2011, formally introduced yesterday by US Senators Tom Udall (D-NM) and Mike Crapo (R-ID). The bill would give algae-based biofuels tax parity while leveling the playing field for all advanced biofuels by expanding the Clean Air Act’s definition of […]
In the EU, the European Environment Agency Scientific Committee, according to a report in the International Herald Tribune, has issued an opinion that biofuels carbon savings should only be counted if they represent incremental savings over what would have been absorbed by existing cropland, forests and grasslands. The scientists said that the EU has been […]
In Fiji, the government is seeking to encourage investment in its local biofuel industry. According to Fiji’s Department of Energy, the country currently produces 1.5 million liters of biofuel, but needs to increase production to 60 million liters. Fiji’s transportation industry requires 300 million liters of fuel per year. The government has already approved biofuel […]
In California, the state’s Energy Commission unanimously adopted its third annual transportation energy Investment Plan to help change the types of vehicles Californians drive and the fuels they use. The latest Investment Plan for the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program prioritizes $100 million in state funds to leverage funding and […]
In Mozambique, the government expects to announce by the end of the year who will be the new investor in charge of the former Procana sugarcane ethanol project in Massingir district, in the southern province of Gaza. The government held a tender earlier in the year to find the new investor and negotiations are continuing. […]
In the EU, Reuters is reporting that the European Commission has agreed to delay implementation of indirect land use change (ILUC) penalties until 2018. Reuters reports that the com promise is intended to safeguard the EU farm sector as well as the large, existing investments in biofuels, which has become a $20B+ business in the […]
