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• Ecuador investigating oil palms as biodiesel feedstock Biofuels Digest (Today) - In Ecuador, the national association of African oil palm producers in conjunction with the production ministry have teamed together to analyze the possibility of producing palm oil as a biodiesel feedstock. The country is the largest oil palm producers in the Americas with 160,000...
• “Senator Calls on US to Help Biofuels Development.” Biofuels Digest (Today) - Today on Twitter. EUDevNews: Paper: Biofuels – At What Cost? Mandating ethanol and biodiesel consumption in the United Kingdom AGNBiofuels: Senator Calls on US to Help Biofuels Development Novimgroup: Consumers to pay 126 billion euros ($166 billion) up till 2020 to promote the use...
• EcoSynthetix lands $2.1M in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada Biofuels Digest (Today) - In Ontario, EcoSynthetix has secured $2.1 in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.  This funding will support a project for the further development of EcoSynthetix’s novel EcoMer bio-based monomer platform that has the potential to address a $30 billion target market across multiple industrial...
• Manildra halts Aussie ethanol expansion, citing govt backtrack Biofuels Digest (Today) - In Australia, Manildra has stopped the expansion work at its Nowra facility. Dick Honan, Manildra Chairman, in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, stated this was a direct result of Premier Barry O’Farrell’s decision not to ban regular unleaded fuel in New South...
• Cuba may allow foreign direct investment in sugarcane ethanol Biofuels Digest (Today) - In Cuba, the government is considering allowing foreign investment in sugar cane based ethanol production.  Tovar Nunes, a Brazilian Foreign Ministry spokesman stated, “Fidel’s resistance in this field is being overcome.”  Fidel has historically been against ethanol based on concerns that this would compete...
• Philippines’ Eastern Petroleum nixes plans for cassava ethanol, citing lack of supply Biofuels Digest (Today) - In the Philippines, Eastern Petroleum Company has decided against developing a cassava-based ethanol plant rather than a sugarcane-based facility citing lack of sufficient domestic cassava production. The company has already diversified into cassava production with plantations in Kalinga, Saranggani and Zambales provinces....
• Ceres $132M IPO scheduled for February 9 Biofuels Digest (Today) - In California, Ceres’ impending IPO has now been placed on the NASDAQ calendar for February 9th. The company says that it expects to raise up to $132 million, in sales of 5 million shares at in the $21-$23 price range, including the sale of...
• Green Vision, Heartland, NDSU partner in energy beet biofuels R&D Biofuels Digest (Today) - In North Dakota, Green Vision Group of Fargo, Heartland Renewable Energy of Muscatine, Iowa, and North Dakota State University have partnered in a $1 million R&D project to produce advanced biofuels from energy beets. The $1 million phase II project includes $500,000 in funds...
• Valero reports record ethanol income Biofuels Digest (Today) - In Texas, Valero’s 2011 fourth quarter and annual reports states that their ethanol segment reported its highest quarter ever with $181 million in operating income, versus $70 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. The increase in ethanol operating income was mainly due to...
• When bio and solar converge: 6 hot projects at the bio-solar-electric frontier Biofuels Digest (Today) - Six teams, six projects test the frontier where the best of solar-electric and the best of bio-based create a new field of biosolar technologies for fuels, materials, sensors and more When it comes down to it, a living organism such as a plant is...
• National Biodiesel Conference Preview Domestic Fuel (Yesterday) - Only a couple days now until the kick-off of the Super Bowl – and the 2012 National Biodiesel Conference. We caught up with National Biodiesel Board CEO Joe Jobe at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit to get a preview what promises to be a great...
• Sao Paulo Ethanol Import Tax Could Violate GATT Domestic Fuel (Yesterday) - The president of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) this week wrote a letter to the U.S. Trade Ambassador asking for an investigation into news that the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo was imposing a 25% tax on all imported ethanol. “Because ethanol produced in Sao...
• Eight Students Selected for Conference Scholarship Domestic Fuel (Yesterday) - Eight students will receive a scholarship to attend the 17th Annual National Ethanol Conference: Accelerating Industry Innovation, according to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and the Renewable Fuels Foundation (RFF). This is the third year the scholarship has been available to students in higher education....
• Executive Roundtable: The Future of Utility-Scale Renewables Renewable Energy World (Yesterday) - Renewable energy in the United States is at a crossroads. With several federal tax grants set to expire by the end of 2012, utilities are trying to decide if the falling prices of solar and wind technology makes renewable energy competitive enough to invest...
• Avantium, Rhodia form partnership for bio-based polyamides Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In France and the Netherlands, Avantium and Rhodia have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a range of new bio-based polyamides targeting a variety of applications.  Expanding their previously announced development agreement for bio-based engineering plastics, the new agreement will explore a wide...
• UPM to produce biodiesel from waste tall oil in Finland Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Finland, UPM is building a 100,000 metric ton biodiesel facility in Lappeenranta that it says will be the first to produce biofuel from crude tall oil, a byproduct of the paper and pulp industry. Construction on the facility will begin this summer with...
• Groundhog Day, biofuels style Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - If the RFS the bedrock of the US biofuels industry’s strategy, does industry not owe the US Congress an affordable, reliable roadmap for how the targets will be reached? Is the brouhaha over missed cellulosic ethanol targets for 2011 and 2012 a meal that...
• Adding perennial biofuel crops lowers surface temperatures: new report Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Arizona, researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and Carnegie Institution for Science have discovered that introducing planting perennial crops extensively for mass production of biofuel feedstocks can lower surface temperatures by about a degree Celsius locally, averaged over the entire growing season....
• “American Lung Assoc. offers Biodiesel essay scholarship.” Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - Today on Twitter. ChemistryWorld: On the road to turning bio-oils into biofuels. A catalyst system turns these unpromising mixes into fuel ndcorngrower: @stephdreyer12 I am from North Dakota I grow #corn for #ethanol #biofuel and I support #XLkeystone pipeline. Make #energy more abundant GreenNewsDaily:...
• Avantium, Rhodia form partmership for bio-based polyamides Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In France and the Netherlands, Avantium and Rhodia have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a range of new bio-based polyamides targeting a variety of applications.  Expanding their previously announced development agreement for bio-based engineering plastics, the new agreement will explore a wide...
• $425 million sugar, ethanol plant OK’d for north Queensland Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Australia, the Hinchinbrook Shire Council has given approval to a proposed $425 million NQ Bio-Energy sugar and ethanol plant proposed for north Queensland. The project has already received state approval so is ready to go ahead. Upon completion, the facility will produce 335,000...
• UPM to produce biodiesel from waste tall oil in Finaland Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Finland, UPM is building a 100,000 metric ton biodiesel facility in Lappeenranta that it says will be the first to produce biofuel from crude tall oil, a byproduct of the paper and pulp industry. Construction on the facility will begin this summer with...
• Sermatec Zanini, GeoSynFuels partner for Brazilian cellulosic ethanol Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Brazil, Sermatec Zanini and GeoSynFuels have formed a strategic alliance for the development and commercialization of GSF’s proprietary cellulosic ethanol technology. The strategic alliance allows Sermatec Zanini to earn an equity position in GeoSynFuels in exchange for engineering services and a future role...
• RFA protests Brazil’s 25% tariff on imported ethanol Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Agency has written to the US Trade Representative to investigate the recent move by Brazilian state Sao Paolo to impose a 25% import duty on all imported ethanol. The Port of Santos in Sao Paolo received 400 million gallons...
• Dynamic Fuels, Mansfield Oil partner for renewable diesel marketing Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Oklahoma, Dynamic Fuels has entered into strategic marketing alliance, commercial off-take and supply chain management agreements with Mansfield Oil Company to distribute synthetic renewable diesel to the commercial fleet vehicle market. Under the strategic marketing alliance, Dynamic Fuels and Mansfield will jointly market...
• Corn prices likely to fall 24% in 2013: CBO Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Washington, the Congressional Budget Office says that corn prices will likely fall from their $6 per bushel average last year to $4.54 in the 2013 marketing year beginning Sept. 1 but only rise to $4.82 by 2022 as ethanol production growth slows to...
• Groundhog Day Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - If the RFS the bedrock of the US biofuels industry’s strategy, does industry not owe the US Congress an affordable, reliable roadmap for how the targets will be reached? Is the brouhaha over missed cellulosic ethanol targets for 2011 and 2012 a meal that...
• Biofuels Digest Index jumps to 3-month high of 74.86 Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 2.18 percent to 1 3-month high of 74.86. For the day, ADM jumped 1.96 percent to $29.19, while Novozymes (NZMB) soared 6.49 percent to $29.55. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) rocketed up...
• On the Move in Biofuels: Enerkem, BioJet, MBD Energy Biofuels Digest (Yesterday) - In Washington, BioJet International announced that Joanne Ivancic, Advanced Biofuels USA co-founder and executive director, has joined the company’s advisory board. In Australia, MBD Energy has appointed Australia’s former Chief Scientist, Robin Batterham AO, to its Board as a non-executive director. In Canada, Enerkem...
• NBB Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee Domestic Fuel (2 days ago) - The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) testified this week to the Senate Finance Committee about the importance of reinstating the industry’s tax incentive. The $1-per-gallon biodiesel tax incentive expired on Dec. 31 for the second time in three years. Anne Steckel, NBB vice president of federal...

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