TABLE: Strong bioethanol demand fuels expansions

17 November 2006 17:13 [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--A stream of companies is planning bioethanol projects across the globe, as environmental regulations drive up demand growth forecasts for the biofuel.

The European Commission (EC) is promoting the addition of biofuels to motor fuels in a ratio of 5.75% in the European Union (EU) by 2010, while in the US the 2005 Energy Policy Act provides incentives for the ongoing development of bioethanol.

British biofuels company Ensus said on Friday it plans to build a 400m litres/year (320,000 tonnes/year) bioethanol plant at the Wilton petrochemicals site in the north east of England. It is set to be the first bioethanol plant in the UK.

Below is a table of bioethanol projects reported recently by ICIS news. A more complete list of ethanol projects can be found in the projects section of Plants & Projects of ICIS.com.

Company	Location	Capacity (tonne/year)	Expected start-up
AB Bioenergy France	Lacq, France	180,000	H2-2007
Agrana	Hungary	Expansion: 60,000 – 160,000	-
Agri-Ethanol Products	Beaufort, US	276,000*	-
Agroetanol	Sweden	Between 80,000 and 160,000*	2008
Biopaliwa	Poland	110,000	2007
Bio-Tech-Energy	Marcali, Hungary	500,000	Start-2008
BKZ Zrt	Mohacs, Hungary	4 x 120,000	Mid-2008
British Sugar	Wissington, UK	55,000	Q1-2007
Cosbio/Abengoa	Salamanca, Spain	200,000	End 2006
Cukrovary TTD Dobrovice	Czech Republic	400,000	End-2006
Dosbio	Miranda de Ebro, Spain	100,000	H1 2009
Ebro Puleva	Castille-La Mancha, Spain	100,000	-
Ebro Puleva/Abengoa	Salamanca, Spain	200,000	Q2-2006
Ensus	Wilton, UK	320,000	Q4 2008
Futura Petroleum	Amsterdam	110,000	2007
Green Spirit Fuels	Henstridge, UK	104,000*	Q2-2007
Green Spirit Fuels	Humberside, UK	200,000	By 2009
Gyori Szeszgyar es Finomito	Hungary	Expansion: 4,000-12,800*	-
Hungarian consortium	Zrenjanin, Serbia	525,000	2009
Moravsky Lihovar Kojetin	Kojetin, Czech Republic	75,000	2009
Royal Nedalco	The Netherlands	160,000*	-
Sniace	Poland	200,000	-
Sniace	Torrelavega, Spain	100,000	Late 2007
Sudzucker	Wanz, Belgium	237,000	Q3 2008
Sudzucker	Zeitz, Germany	Expansion: 260,000 – 360,000	-
SWP Trading	Horni Sucha, Czech Republic	-	2007/2008
United Biofuels	Mohacs, Hungary	100,000 (hectolitres)	End 2007

*These capacities have been converted to mass from volumes, as provided by the companies.

By: Mark Watts
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