Biofuels news

Distorted figures create biofuel opportunities

As market forces and rising prices drive this technology to the forefront, one of the richest potential production areas has been totally overlooked by investors up to now - Central Asia. Formerly the USSR's cotton "plantation," the region is poised to become a major player in the production of biofuels if sufficient foreign investment can be procured. Unlike Brazil, where biofuel is manufactured largely from sugarcane, or the United States, where it is primarily distilled from corn, Central Asia's ace resource is an indigenous plant, Camelina sativa.

4  January  2010

Ukraine could export biofuel instead of rape

Ukrainian agrarians have been exporting rape abroad as a raw material for biofuel production until now, however they would be able to export the finished product, Director of Scientific-Research Institute of Alternative Fuel LLC (Kharkiv) Volodymyr Semenov believes.

9  December  2009

Belarus' research strategy for 2015 is aimed at developing over 1,500 advanced technologies

"The strategy highlights power engineering, energy efficiency, nano-materials, IT, medicine and others, which corresponds to the science and technology policies of the world's major powers. We also take into account the dynamics of world market prices for resources and energy, and seek to achieve European-level goals in biofuel, energy-saving, agricultural technologies and informatization, Mikhail Myasnikovich said.

9  December  2009      Комментарии: 1

Biofuel profits seen driving maize-led grain rally

Grains could seen sharp rebound if yields hit next year. Russia eyes sales to British and Dutch ethanol plants

9  December  2009      Комментарии: 1

Russia: speaker of State Duma offers to produce biofuel at abandoned lands

Boris Gryslov, the Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, offered to use abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production on September 29. According to him, the country has opportunities to produce the product at unused lands without any damage to grain production. The European Union has the standard that biological fuel should contain not lower than 6.9% of biological ingredients, marked B.Gryslov. Russia accounts 127 mln ha of agricultural lands, including 20 mln ha of abandoned lands, added he.

9  December  2009

Ukraine: Cabinet initiates no import duty for biofuel equipment

The Cabinet of Ministers announced plans to cancel import duty for the equipment brought in to promote the development of production and consumption of biofuel. A relevant draft document was elaborated by the Agrarian Policy Ministry.

9  December  2009

Six plants to produce bio-ethanol instead of alcohol

Six plants are planned to be reequipped this year to produce bio-ethanol, Deputy Agrarian Minister Oleksandr Shevchenko told UKRINFORM.

He specified that UAH 160 million of investments (USD 1 - UAH 7.63) have been attracted for that purpose.

3  August  2009      Комментарии: 1

Belgospischeprom Seeks Investor in Bioethanol Plant

Belarus ' food concern Belgospischeprom is looking for an investor in the construction of a bioethanol-making plant and a yeast-producing facility, Viktor Krasnyuk with Belgospischeprom said during the Days of German economy in Belarus. The most attractive project is the construction of a bio-ethanol facility at Zhabinka sugar refinery. The bioethanol unit will have a capacity of 60,000 tonnes of fuel ethanol annually from cane raw materials, he said.

3  August  2009      Комментарии: 1

INTERVIEW-Brazil promotes ethanol output abroad as exports dip

Brazil is encouraging sugar producers in Latin America and Africa to produce ethanol, funding studies and promising technical support in a push to convince governments to adopt the alternative fuel, a government official said on Monday. The Brazilian agency for trade promotion and the regional Inter-American Development Bank are examining the viability of setting up ethanol refineries in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, St Kitts and Nevis and Haiti, agriculture ministry official Jose Nilton said.

3  August  2009

Ukrros Sugar Association Planning To Create Joint Enterprise For Production Of Bio-Ethanol At Hubynykh Sugar Refinery

Ukrros Sugar Association, a Kyiv-based company and a major producer of sugar in Ukraine, intends to seek a strategic investor for creation of a joint enterprise for production of bio-ethanol at the Hubynykh sugar refinery (Dnipropetrovsk region). Ukrros Sugar Association's Board Chairman Serhii Fedorenko announced this in an interview with the Delo newspaper. Fedorenko stressed that the company was interested in attracting a Western investor with experience in similar projects.

3  August  2009