30/07/10 LS9 may have just solved biofuels’ scaling problem

The biofuel market is turning into a diverse romp of venture-backed companies auditioning different microbes, catalysts and feedstocks, all with the same goal: to quickly, efficiently and cheaply transform renewable, non-food products (ranging from sugar cane to switch grass to carbon dioxide) into ...

30/07/10 EBB publishes annual biodiesel statistics

New statistics published by the European Biodiesel Board on July 22 show that while the growth rate in the European biodiesel market has slowed, the region still reigns as the world’s largest biodiesel producer.

30/07/10 Süd-Chemie to build Germany´s largest plant for the biotechnological production of biofuels from straw

Süd-Chemie AG, one of the world´s leading specialty chemical companies for catalysts and adsorbents based in Munich is to build Germany´s largest plant to date for the production of climate-friendly, second-generation bioethanol, so-called cellulose ethanol, based on biotechnological processes.

29/07/10 Renewable power grows more than fossil fuel in EU and US

Despite the recent economic downturn, the green energy market has grown to the point of eclipsing fossil fuel – at least in terms of the creation of new power capacity in Europe and the United States.

29/07/10 EU biodiesel 2009: ups and downs

On the surface it all seems good news for Europe’s biodiesel industry with capacity growth at 16.6%, but a worrying number of idled plants put its true potential at bay.

26/07/10 Small rise for EU 2009 biodiesel output

Europe's 2009 biodiesel output rose 16.6% to 9m tonnes, an inconsiderable rise compared to previous year's figures, according to a new European Biodiesel Board (EBB) survey.

25/07/10 CO2, biofuels and emissions

As this piece is being written, there remains little progress on the climate change and energy bills in which many have held a great deal of hope here in the US, with respect to significant federal mandates limiting carbon emissions, as well as federal incentives toward assistance in the development...

25/07/10 Exousia Announces Its Biodiesel Facility Revving Up for Business

Exousia Advanced Materials, Inc., a company whose business is providing a variety of fuel products to thousands of customers in the United States, announced today that its biodiesel production facility located in South Carolina is currently completing the maintenance and re-tooling of the facility ...

23/07/10 UK meets renewable fuel target

The Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) has published data from the second year of the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO), showing that the UK has met its 3.25% target.

23/07/10 EU biodiesel output rises 17% in 2009 but idle capacity grows

European biodiesel production grew by 17% to 9 million mt last year, but

some two thirds of the region's production capacity is sitting idle due in

part to unfair trade practices on the global biodiesel market, the European

Biodiesel Board said Thursday.

23/07/10 Spanish biodiesel industry crippled by imports

Only 18 months after the EU took action to mitigate the influx of U.S. products into the European biodiesel market, a Spanish renewable energy organization is claiming that European biodiesel markets are once again being overtaken by unfair imports.

21/07/10 Biofuel expected to grow up to 15.5%

According to the new Global Biofuel Market Analysis by Research and Markets, biofuel usage is expected to grow by up to 15.5% during 2010-2013.

20/07/10 OPX-Bio Brings a High Tech Twist to Biofuel

When I think of bio-fuels, I often envision guys in denim coveralls driving tractors through cornfields or dragging brush into piles. But clearly I’ve been looking backwards rather than focusing on what’s ahead.

19/07/10 BP and Verenium Announce Pivotal Biofuels Agreement

BP and Verenium Corporation announced an agreement for BP Biofuels North America to acquire Verenium's cellulosic biofuels business, including the Company's facilities in Jennings, LA and San Diego, CA for $98.3 million.

19/07/10 Italy proposes regulated market for physical oil

Italy is drafting a proposal for a regulated European bourse for physical oil trade in order to cut speculation, the country's energy regulator chairman, Alessandro Ortis, said in his annual speech on Thursday.

17/07/10 Biodiesel an option for 2011 RFS2 shortage

The U.S. EPA has issued the proposed production volumes for the 2011 RFS2, calculating biomass-based diesel for 2011 at 800 million gallons.

17/07/10 Biofuels account for 3.3% of UK’s road transport fuel

Energy companies supplied 1.6 billion litres of biofuels in the second year of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), accounting for 3.3% of the UK's total road transport fuel, according to provisional figures released by the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) today (July 15).

17/07/10 EPA lowers next year’s target for cellulosic biofuels

The US Environmental Protection Agency has decided to lower next year’s requirements for fuel suppliers to sell cellulosic biofuels within their transport fuel products.

16/07/10 NGOs slam EU-Brazil plans to develop biofuels in Africa

EU and Brazilian leaders are set to announce a new "triangular co-operation" initiative, under which they will aim to work together in some of the world's poorest countries, but NGOs say the duo's scheme is self-centred and will simply make conditions worse.

16/07/10 35 out of 46 Spanish biodiesel plants lie idle

They just can't lift their heads. It is the classic sector which is suffering two crises: the general recession and a more specific crisis.