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'Biofuels Technology Platform' launched today |
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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Brussels, June 12 - The European association for bioindustries - EuropaBio - welcomes the Commission's launch today of the Biofuels Technology Platform and has announced the setting up of a Biofuels Task Force within EuropaBio to coordinate industry input. The new Biofuels Task Force's mission is “to advocate coherently favorable policies, strategies, regulations and their implementation for research, finance, and market access of Biofuels as one of the pillars of the competitive and sustainable European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy, increasing the value of plants and renewable materials of agricultural and forestry origin”.
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China invests in Swedish bioenergy |
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Government and Regulatory
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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Malmo, June 12 - State Grid Corporation, the largest energy company in China and the world, is planning a large investment in Swedish bioenergy as part of a major expansion in the field, according to a press release on the Invest in Sweden Agency web site.
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Oregon academics design tiny biodiesel reactor |
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Technology
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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Chemical engineering researchers at Oregon State University have developed a tiny chemical reactor for manufacturing biodiesel that is so efficient, fast and portable it could enable farmers to produce a cleaner-burning diesel substitute on their farms using seed crops they grow on their own land.
"This could be as important an invention as the mouse for your PC," said Goran Jovanovic, the OSU professor who developed the biodiesel microreactor. "If we're successful with this, nobody will ever make biodiesel any other way."
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New Energy Finance publishes survey of clean energy 'incubators' |
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Company
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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London - New Energy Finance has published its 2006 review of clean energy 'incubators'. The report identifies 114 business incubators around the world that have as their only significant focus the building of businesses and commercialisation of clean energy technology from an early stage. According to the company, this represents an increase of just over 28% from the last report in August 2005.
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NGOs call for biofuel sustainability safeguards |
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Government and Regulatory
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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London, 8 June - Three NGOs have called on the EU to introduce "sustainability safeguards" as part of the ongoing review of the EU Biofuels Directive. A failure to do so, they warn, will lead to negligible savings in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, will harm biodiversity, and risk turning the public against biofuels.
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EU reassures OPEC that renewables won't reduce demand for 'dinodiesel' |
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Government and Regulatory
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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Brussel, June 9 2006 - The European Commission has reassured the OPEC oil-producing countries that increased use of biodiesel and the growing numbers of wind turbines and nuclear plants in Europe won't affect overall European demand for OPEC's oil exports.
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Netherlands' first E85 filling station opens in Rotterdam |
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Company
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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Rotterdam June 8, 2006 - Argos Oil has become the first oil company to introduce E85 (85% bioethanol and 15% petrol) in the Netherlands. Argos oil has worked in partnership with Rotterdam city council in the 'BEST' project (Bioethanol for Sustainable Transport), an EU project the aim of which is to reduce pollution and diversify away from fossil fuels. From 8 June onwards motorists can fill their cars with E85 at the Argos filling station in Rotterdam's Feijenoord district.
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UK's Biofuels Corp raises $15 million |
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Company
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Sunday, 11 June 2006 |
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Biofuels Corporation, an Alternative Investment Market (AIM) traded company which owns and operates a biodiesel plant capable of producing 250,000 tonnes of biodiesel per year on a continuous process basis, is raising £7.9 million before expenses (£7.3million after expenses) through an issue of 4,401,804 shares at 180 pence per share.
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France, Italy support farm prices by turning fine wine into biofuel |
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Government and Regulatory
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Sunday, 11 June 2006 |
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Brussels, 9 June 2006. The EU Wine Management Committee voted today on proposals from the European Commission to open crisis distillation of wine in France and Italy. For France a maximum of 1.5 million hectolitres of table wine and of 1.5 million hectolitres of quality wine can be offered for crisis distillation. For Italy crisis distillation has been opened for a maximum quantity of 2.5 million hectolitres of table wine and 100,000 hectolitres of quality wine. Further demands from Spain and Greece are still under examination.
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