ALTERNATIVE FUELS

EU Agrees to Pump Billions of Dollars into CCS and Renewables

February 5, 2010 | Alex Scott

A committee representing European Union (EU) member states has accepted a European Commission proposal to direct funds raised from the region’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) into projects for carbon capture and storage (CCS), and renewable fuels and...


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U.S. Launches Climate Program Focused on CCS, Advanced Biofuels

President Obama today announced it will form a U.S. Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to develop a “comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of clean coal technologies.”  ...

Novozymes Grows in 2009, Expects a Boost from U.S. Biofuels in 2010

Novozymes (Copenhagen), an enzymes technology firm, says its operating profit for fourth quarter 2009 increased 16% to DKr 431 million ($81 million), compared to the year-ago period, with corresponding sales up 7% to DKr 2.2 billion. Operating profit margin...

Start-up Commissions First Commercial Biosuccinic Acid Plant

Bioamber (Pomacle, France), a three year old joint venture between DNP Green Technology (Princeton, NJ) and (Agro-industrie Recherches et Développements (ARD; Pomacle), an agricultural technology group, says it has successfully begun operating the...

Axens and Headwaters Create Coal Liquefaction Tech JV

Axens (Paris), a petrochemicals technology provider, and Headwaters (South Jordan, UT), a materials technology firm, say they have created a joint venture company Alliance DCL, to provide solutions for producing clean transport fuels via direct coal...

Davy Methanation Technology Selected for Plant in China

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Novozymes Secures $28.4 Million Tax Credit to Build Nebraska Enzymes Plant

Novozymes, an enzymes technology firm, says it has received an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit of $28.4 million from the U.S. government to fund a new biofuel enzymes facility that it is building at Blair, NE. The facility is set to manufacture...

Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels

Never before has there been so much uncertainty over the future supply and demand for hydrocarbons, particularly in transport, which accounts for 50% of primary oil consumption. Some argue that biofuels and electric vehicles will not have much short or medium...

Bunge Buys Sugar, Ethanol Assets in Brazil

U.S. agribusiness firm Bunge (White Plains, NY) says it has agreed to purchase Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Unisa Moema Participações (Moema; São Paulo). The deal gives Bunge one wholly owned sugarcane mill and ownership interest...

Petrobras, PetroChina to Study Joint Ethanol Projects in Brazil

Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) says its biofuels subsidiary has signed a six-month memorandum of understanding with PetroChina to study possible collaboration on developing ethanol projects in Brazil. The two companies will also...

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