Germany’s Brandenburg plans to boost biofuels

10 January 2008 17:37  [Source: ICIS news]

TORONTO (ICIS news)--Germany’s eastern state of Brandenburg launched on Thursday a three-year €500,000 ($735,300) network initiative to further boost biofuels production and use.

 

The network, which included 18 firms and R&D institutes, would seek to further boost biodiesel capacities and use in Brandenburg, with particular focus on helping to ensure adequate feedstock supplies, the state’s economics ministry said in a statement.

 

Brandenburg was already Germany’s largest biodiesel-producing state, it said.

 

The network would also seek to promote the state-wide introduction of bioethanol, in co-operation with biofuels maker Verbio, car maker Ford and the transport fuels sector, it said.

 

Another focus was the build-up of more biogas capacities and better co-ordination between the gas industry and the agricultural sector in the production and marketing of biogas, it said.

 

Brandenburg had 40 biogas facilities in operation and an additional 40 projects or expansions were either planned or under construction, the ministry said.

 

Brandenburg and the capital region of Berlin had the potential to become a leading hub for biofuels research and production, said state economics minister Ulrich Junghanns.

 

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By: Stefan Baumgarten
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