http://www.bioenergy-business.com en-uk Markets and finance for biomass and biofuels Digital Method Web Publishing Systems Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:48:34 GMT Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT support@bioenergy-business.com support@bioenergy-business.com Manitoba will become the first Canadian province to implement a biodiesel mandate, which will require an average 2% biodiesel be included in diesel fuel when it takes effect on 1 November. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12329 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12329 Biodiesel and chemicals producer China Clean Energy recorded a $202,316 loss in the first half of the year, compared with a $749,228 profit in the same period last year. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=asia&action=view&id=12330 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=asia&action=view&id=12330 Darling International, which recycles food processing waste, and the oil company Valero Energy hope to begin construction by September 2011 of a plant that could produce more than 10,000 barrels/day (511m litres/year) of "renewable diesel" from animal fats and used cooking oil. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12328 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12328 Viaspace, which is growing giant king grass in China as an energy crop, said that it would supply at least 300 tons/day (272t/day) of the crop for test firing at a biomass-fuelled power plant operated by Beijing-based DP CleanTech. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=asia&action=view&id=12333 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=asia&action=view&id=12333 Investment company Leaf Clean Energy said that it is now largely fully invested or committed to investing, with $243m in 11 businesses, including biofuel and biomass power companies. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12335 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12335 Danish production of willow and poplar as energy crops is set to soar after the government approved a DKK32m ($6.3m) grant programme to support planting. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12324 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12324 UK-listed investment firm Clean Energy Brazil (CEB) has sold its stake in a Brazilian sugar company for $8.7m - after spending $127m on the investment in 2007. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12320 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12320 A plan to build a biofuel-burning 20MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant in west London was thwarted last week when the local council refused planning permission. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12322 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12322 The biofuels arm of Brazil's state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras has signed a deal that will give 60,000 small farmers access to up to R$90m ($49.1m) of Banco do Brasil credit for the growing of oil crops as a source of biodiesel feedstock. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12321 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12321 GreenHunter Mesquite Lake has signed a 20-year contract for the sale of up to 27MW of electricity, from a biomass-fired power plant that it is refurbishing in California, to Imperial Irrigation District (IID). http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12325 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12325 Xethanol Biofuels of the US, a subsidiary of the renewable energy group Global Energy Holdings, has agreed to sell its mothballed ethanol production plant to waste-to-biofuel developer Fiberight. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12326 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12326 Jatropha developer D1 Oils made an overall loss of £2.9m ($4.8m) in the six months to the end of June compared with a £13.1m loss in the same period last year, on revenue that fell to £1.5m from £2.2m. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12327 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12327 The Brazilian ethanol industry looks set for a new merger and acquisition spree, almost one year after a forced halt to previous activity caused by the credit crunch. At least big four deals are on the table and, according to sector specialists, more are likely. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12312 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12312 Preliminary bankruptcy ballot results show that a creditor of Cascade Grain Products of the US may be unsuccessful in its attempt to force a change in the ethanol producer's bankruptcy status and eventual liquidation of its assets. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12313 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12313 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a €30m ($42.7m) loan for conversion in Poland of a boiler from burning coal to burning wood and for modernisation of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12314 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12314 Turnover of the Switzerland-based biodiesel producer Biopetrol Industries dropped by half in the first half of this year compared with a year before, to €69.7m ($99.5m) from €139.8m, while the net loss increased to €12.3m from €7.1m. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12315 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12315 German biogas project developer Schmack Biogas boosted sales to €42.1m ($60.1m) in the first six months of this year from €29.8m in the same period last year and reduced its net loss to €11.3m from €20.4m. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12316 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12316 On 27 August, 36 Brazilian companies sold 460m litres of biodiesel in the 15th public auction by the government's Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP). The average price was R$2.27/litre ($1.19/litre). http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12317 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12317 A joint venture by the UK companies Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and Forth Ports plans to build four wood-fuelled power plants with a combined capacity of about 400MW. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12318 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12318 US company Northwest Renewable has changed course and chosen to build a 24MW wood-fired power plant in Washington state rather than an ethanol plant. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12319 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12319 The Canadian government is to give two companies up to C$145.2m ($132.4m) over seven years to subsidise production at the firms' biodiesel and ethanol plants. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12304 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12304 California's Amyris Biotechnologies has raised $24.7m to pursue development of its technology to convert sugar cane into biofuels and useful chemicals. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12305 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&action=view&id=12305 Investment company Cinven and minority shareholders have sold the Scottish biodiesel producer Argent Energy for an undisclosed sum to two Argent directors and to a fund owned by the Souter family founders of UK train and bus operator Stagecoach. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12307 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=europe&action=view&id=12307 Ethanol producers have urged California regulators to modify a plan to adopt a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) because of flawed assumptions about or modelling of indirect land use-change (ILUC). http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12308 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=americas&action=view&id=12308 Clear regulations, top-up tariffs and other measures have led to a boom in biomass-based power and other renewable energies in Thailand and could be copied elsewhere in the region, according to a recent report. http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=asia&action=view&id=12309 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=asia&action=view&id=12309