sustainable biofuel production News
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New Biofuels white paper from SGS
SGS published a white paper on Biofuel Sustanability last March 2013. The white paper titled "Understanding Sustainable Biofuel Production, the EU Renewable Energy Directive and International Initiatives to Verify Sustainability", aims to provide an insight into the issues associated with the sustainable sourcing and production of biofuels. It discusses the contents of the 2009 European ...
By SGS
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Boeing Statement Regarding USDA-FAA Partnership on Aviation Biofuels
CHICAGO - Boeing (NYSE: BA) Vice President, Environment and Aviation Policy, Billy M Glover, issued the following statement in the wake of today's announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Aviation Administration that the two agencies have agreed to work together to bring sustainable biofuels into production for the aviation industry. "Today's announcement is welcome ...
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IDB approves US $830,000 grant to promote technological development for biofuels in Colombia
The Inter-American Development Bank today approved a US$830,000 grant for expanding innovation, science and technology in bioenergy in Colombia. The grant includes US$500,000 from the Knowledge Partnership Korea Fund for Technology and Innovation and US$330,000 from the IDB’s Fund for Sustainable Energy and Climate Change (SECCI). The main objective of this grant is to promote new technological ...
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Biofuels: Researchers to turn waste into wealth
Being launched today in Canberra, the A$8.3 million CSIRO Energy Transformed Cluster on Biofuels will develop new processes using enzyme biotechnology techniques to produce liquid fuels from waste plant feedstocks with the potential to provide 30 per cent of Australia’s future transport needs. Transport is the third largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia after the ...
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IEA welcomes G8 call for action on energy security and sustainability
“With energy demand continuing to grow, prices breaking records and concern about climate change intensifying, we need policies that bring sustainable solutions,” said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today, after the G8 Summit in Toyako/Japan came to a close. “We are very pleased that G8 leaders are so engaged in finding and implementing these policies. ...
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SCS Global Services Issues First Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) Certification in Northern Hemisphere to Global Clean Energy Holdings
SCS Global Services (SCS) announced that it has issued Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) certification to Global Clean Energy Holdings (GCEH), a California-based producer of non-food based biofuels, biomass and renewable chemical feedstocks. They are the first North American company to achieve RSB certification. "We're happy to welcome GCEH under the RSB umbrella," said Dr. Michael ...
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Piedmont Biofuels is Certified by SCS Global Services Under the Prestigious Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Program
Piedmont Biofuels of Pittsboro, North Carolina has been certified under the internationally recognized Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) Program following a third-party assessment conducted by SCS Global Services (SCS). Piedmont Biofuels collects used cooking oil from restaurants in the Research Triangle Park area and uses it to produce biodiesel that it sells locally through seven ...
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India should consider new-generation biofuels
Sustainable biofuel production strategies and second-generation options involving woody biomass and tall grasses that do not need additional land can help India realise its green targets, a review says. India needs to minimise any adverse impact and promote potential synergies with respect to reclamation of degraded lands, creation of rural livelihoods and promotion of energy security, the ...
By SciDev.Net
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INFORSE-EUROPE CALLS FOR an IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM on SUPPORT and on IMPORT of AGROFUELS
INFORSE-Europe calls for an immediate moratorium on incentives for agrofuels (liquid fuels from large-scale monoculture agriculture) in EU countries including tree plantations and a moratorium on EU imports of such agrofuels. We also call for the immediate change of all targets for biofuel use in transportation to targets for sustainable transportation, such as targets for transport energy from ...
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Former US Presidential Economic Advisor Patrick O’Brien Named to Advisory Board of Mission NewEnergy Limited
Mission NewEnergy Limited (Nasdaq:MNEL) (ASX:MBT), a global provider of environmentally sustainable biofuels, has named Patrick O’Brien, a retired senior US Department of Agriculture Director and Presidential Commission economist, to its Advisory Board. The appointment was announced by Mission’s Advisory Board Chairman Major General Wilbert D. ...
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Algae Oil to Biodiesel: A Practical Application
Within the All-Gas Project of Europe’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, BDI-BioEnergy International demonstrates algae oil extraction, characterization and conversion to biodiesel using its RepCat process. The usage of algae oil as a feedstock for renewable fuel is present in the literature, but less information is available when it comes to ...
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NRDC Report Helps Guide Major Fuel Buyers to Sustainable Biofuels Procurement
Amid increasing interest in alternative transportation fuels, a new report shows how federal agencies and other large commercial customers can buy sustainably produced biofuels and avoid those linked to major deforestation, destroyed wildlife habitat and fouled waterways. The report “Biofuel Sustainability Performance Guidelines,” was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense ...
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IEA technology roadmap biofuels for transport
A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA)<http://www.iea.org/> says that the widespread deployment of biofuels can play an important role in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector and enhancing energy security, when produced sustainably. With the transportation sector growing considerably, and demand for transport fuels rising globally, the IEA assesses biofuels - ...
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EC launches consultation on sustainability scheme for biomass for energy purposes
The European Commission is inviting all stakeholders, including energy companies, project developers, equipment manufacturers, government services, agricultural and forest industry, environmental NGOs and all other interested stakeholders, including from outside the EU, to help identify the need to develop at EU level sustainability criteria for biomass for energy purposes. On 23 January 2008 ...
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Major report released at “Bioenergy Australia 2009”
Australia’s bioenergy industry – which uses biomass for heat, power (bioelectricity) and liquid fuels (biofuels) – is relatively small. However, in the future it has very significant growth potential, driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to secure future fuel supply. During the conference, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) will release the ...
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Boeing-COMAC Technology Center Announces First Biofuel Research Project
A newly formed technology center created by Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has announced that Hangzhou Energy Engineering & Technology, Co., Ltd., (HEET) will conduct the center's first research project. HEET, a company with experience developing alternative energy technologies, will focus on ways to convert discarded cooking oil into a component of ...
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NREL Announces Round Two Selections for the DOE Small Business Vouchers Pilot
The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will help 12 companies advance their technologies under the second round of DOE's Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot. "The Small Business Vouchers Pilot focuses on attracting small and mid-size businesses that can leverage the world-class capabilities of the national laboratories and bring their clean energy technologies ...
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Boeing, South African Airways Look to First Harvest of Energy-Rich Tobacco to Make Sustainable Aviation Biofuel
Boeing [NYSE:BA] and South African Airways (SAA) announced today that South African farmers will soon harvest their first crop of energy-rich tobacco plants, an important step towards using the plants to make sustainable aviation biofuel. Boeing and SAA, along with partners SkyNRG and Sunchem SA, also officially launched Project Solaris, their collaborative effort to develop an aviation biofuel ...
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Less CO2 emissions with new diesel from renewable energy sources
This week in Berlin, Daimler AG, Deutsche Post DHL, the energy group OMV, the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG public transportation company, and the Finnish oil company Neste Oil took part in a discussion-oriented event titled “Diesel from renewable sources — A step toward zero-emission transportation?”. At the event, the companies presented the initial results of their joint pilot test project ...
By Neste
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Wageningen UR and Arke to work together on sustainable jet fuel
The airline Arke and Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) have joined forces to work on developing sustainable jet fuel derived from algae. Microalgae have great potential for producing sustainable biofuels, such as biokerosene, to meet the future fuel requirements of the aviation industry. For the next six months, Wageningen UR will be conducting research into the techno-economic ...
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