Latest Biofuels and bio-energy company news
Tesco is commissioning 25 Iveco EcoDaily light commercial vehicles fuelled by sustainable Liquid Biomethane for its online grocery shopping and delivery service tesco.com. The fuel is made by UK company, Gasrec (the first commercial producer of Liquid Biomethane in Europe), and is created by extracting naturally occurring methane from organic waste in landfill sites and converting it to a high quality, clean fuel.
Gasrec will initially supply fuel for the 25 Liquid Biomethane-fuelled 5.3 ton... [more]
Chempolis has signed a licence and EPC agreement with Tianjin Jiuqian Paper Co Ltd. to supply three formico® biorefineries, each capable of producing 100,000 t/a of bleached wheat straw pulp. The new plants are scheduled to start up in 2012-2013.
Chempolis’ scope of supply will cover formico® technology licence and supplying EPC services (engineering, procurement, commissioning and start-up services). The biorefineries will incorporate Chempolis’ latest formicofib™ technologies, including the... [more]
The Washington State Algae Alliance, comprised of bioscience firm Targeted Growth, Inc. (TGI), Inventure Chemical (Inventure) and Washington State University (WSU), will benefit from $2 million in funding through WSU as part of the 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) was instrumental in securing funding for the Alliance, which will jointly develop a new system for the production of sustainable and renewable fuels, chemicals, and chemica... [more]
Public agencies, companies and private users can ensure that their future energy needs are met safely and securely by thinking outside the grid, according to a new book by Ronald H. Bowman, Jr., Executive Vice President of Tishman Technologies Corporation.
Bowman paints a bleak landscape in his book of our current situation: as demand for electricity continues to grow faster than the supply, and America’s aging national power distribution network becomes less reliable, the potential economic ... [more]
Jatropha is a plant that grows to approximately three metres high and produces seeds that contain inedible lipid oil that is used to produce fuel. Each seed produces between 30 and 40 percent of its mass in oil and jatropha can be grown in a range of difficult conditions, including arid and otherwise non-arable areas, leaving prime areas available for food crops.
The world's first commercial aviation test flight powered by the sustainable second-generation biofuel jatropha has been successful... [more]
Weatherite has developed technology that can help reduce overall carbon emissions for industry by up to 90 per cent. The company’s sustainable tri-generation technology uses the UK’s first ADsorption chiller, a greener alternative to the absorption chiller, which substantially reduces energy use and carbon emissions. Weatherite has sole manufacturing rights to the ADsorption chiller in Europe.
The trigeneration system installed at Tesco, Colney Hatch, is generating 800kW of 'green' electricit... [more]
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