Nearly $300 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act… aka the “Stimulus Bill”… funds are being handed out by the U.S. Department of Energy to replace or change more than 9,000 vehicles so they will burn alternative fuels and/or make them more fuel efficient, as well as establish nearly 550 alternative refueling stations across the U.S.. Energy Secretary Steven Chu …
Emerson is Choice for Dynamic Fuels Biodiesel Plant
A Louisiana biodiesel plant that needs intense heat to turn animal fats and waste materials into the green fuel has chosen a Texas company that specializes in the process control system that uses hydrogen to create the heat needed. Biodiesel Magazine reports that the 75-million-gallon-a-year Dynamic Fuels renewable diesel plant… a 50-50 joint venture between Tyson Foods Inc. and Syntroleum …
Mississippi Firm Opens First of Three Biodiesel Plants
Officials at a biodiesel plant in Mississippi have finished the commissioning process for the 8-million-gallon-a-year facility. This article from Biodiesel Magazine says Mississippi Investment Petroleum Co. LLC (MIPCO) bought the plant from Tri-State Petroleum Products in Houston, Mississippi and retrofitted it to produce the green fuel from poultry fat and waste vegetable oil: The Houston, Miss. [facility], is actually the …
Rising Diesel Prices Good for Biodiesel Biz
Prices for diesel continue to climb in the U.S., hitting their highest point of the year… and that’s good news for producers of green, renewable biodiesel. Biodiesel Magazine reports that according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the national average price of diesel fuel went up 1.6 cents per gallon from $2.652 per gallon Aug. 17 to $2.668 per gallon …
Algae Biodiesel Plant to be Built in Massachusetts
A one-million-gallon-a-year algae-biodiesel plant could soon become a reality for Massachusetts with some help from the state and federal governments. Biomass Magazine reports that Plankton Power, the maker of algae-based biodiesel, and the Regional Technology Development Corp. of Cape Cod, Mass. are working together to build a pilot-scale algae-based biodiesel production facility in Bourne, Mass. Together with the Massachusetts National …
Good News, Bad News: Brazil to Send US, EU Biodiesel
This is one of the good news, bad news stories. The bad news is: According to this story in World Energy Alternatives, Brazil wants to start sending soy-based biodiesel to the U.S. and the European Union. That word comes the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry: Sustainability studies have been performed to prove the biodiesel was produced sustainably to meet EU norms, but …
Canadian Government Invests in Biodiesel Plant
The Canadian government is putting more than $72 million into a biodiesel plant in Ontario. This government press release says the money for the BIOX Corporation facility in Hamilton comes from the ecoENERGY for Biofuels program, which works to help stabilize the Canadian renewable fuel industry: “The Government of Canada is delivering results for families and workers in Hamilton,” said …
VW Announces 2010 Biodiesel Racing Schedule
With just four races left in the current racing season, Volkswagen Motorsports has announced next year’s SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup schedule… a series that features clean-burning B5 biodiesel in its cars. This press release says Volkswagen of America has an online application page for prospective drivers at www.vwmotorsportusa.com, adding one more path that drivers may follow in …
Aurora Biofuels Improves Carbon-Eating Algae
In what is being characterized by the company as a major breakthrough in algae technology to be turned into biodiesel, California-based Aurora Biofuels has optimized algae strains that more than double their intake of carbon dioxide… important for producing the oil that is eventually turned into biodiesel. This article from Biodiesel Magazine says while it’s hard to figure how much …
Kentucky Biodiesel Plant Set to Open This Month
A 14-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant in Kentucky is on schedule for opening later this month. Biodiesel Magazine reports that the multi-feedstock Bluegrass BioDiesel plant at Falmouth, Ky. is about halfway through testing all of its systems and should be up and running by the end of August: General Manager Rich Wojtkowski described a number of features used in the plant to …