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• ICIS bioresources summit

  ICIS (the people that I work for: About ICIS ) will be holding the 2nd ICIS Bioresources Summit , in Hardwick Hall, County Durham, UK on November 25. The conference will discuss the advances in bio-engineering and their impact on biofuels, bio-polymers... Posted Oct 13 2008, 09:56 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Policy, UK, biofuels, politics, technology, Biodiesel, Trade, Science, ICIS, Conference, Meeting, ICIS Bioresources Summit

• FAO wants biofuel support examined and outlines world biofuel capacity

  The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation wants subsisidies, tariffs and tax-breaks for biofuels production examined and possibly reduced in a press release which marks the publication of its annual report The State of Food . That report... Posted Oct 08 2008, 11:40 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Policy, Agriculture, cassava, wheat, biofuels, politics, FAO, UN, Biodiesel, Science, Food, gasoline, petrol, maize, rice, report, Sugar, sorghum, beet, Organisation, cane,

• Corn estimates down in the US

  The US Department of Agrculture has lowered its estimates of the volume of corn and soy that will be harvested this year. So 2008 will only be the second largest crop in history. It might have been higher if the weather had been better. That story's... Posted Oct 06 2008, 12:21 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, Agriculture, Corn, biofuels, technology, Science, Food, cellulosic, down, des, moines, register, estimate, tecfhnology, volume

• National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September

  National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September was one of the first of a range of events across the US in the coming months. I missed this at the time, travelling may broaden the mind, but you can't do much at all when you're laptop's... Posted Oct 02 2008, 02:44 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, biofuels, National, Biodiesel, day, alternative, Vehicle, Odessey, AFV

• Ethanol videos from RFA

  The US renewable fuel association has launched two adverts full of ethnolic goodness. Faces and Places . These ads are pretty simple to the point and i nterestingly set in Texas . There's also a video clip on the RFA website about how great it is... Posted Sep 23 2008, 01:20 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, video, RFA, Places, Faces

• Interview with Geoff Broin CEO Poet

  The industrious chaps over at earth2tech have secured an email interview with Geff Broin, ceo of Poet industries which recently announced plans to build a cellulosic ethanol plant by the end of the year. He's a big fan of subsidies, and makes a good... Posted Sep 18 2008, 04:41 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Agriculture, Corn, technology, cellulose, stover, Broin, cob, Jeff, earth2tech

• Schafer says phases out ethanol incentives

  Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer told a meeting in Kansas on 11 September that the blenders tax credit and the tariff on imported ethanol should be phased out when domestic production gets to 34bn gal/year, according to Good Fuels , which goes into... Posted Sep 18 2008, 03:33 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, Schafer, subsidy, out, phase

• US on track to deliver second biggest ever corn crop

  The US is on track to deliver the country's second biggest ever corn crop , according to numbers from the US department of agriculture and reported on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS ) My pal William Lemos' report says: The... Posted Sep 15 2008, 04:09 PM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, Agriculture, Corn, 2008, usda, Bioethanol, crop

• EU Parliament's decison to change its biofuel approach worries Malaysians

  The European Parliament's decision to change its approach to biofuels has worried the Malaysian government, accroding to a report in Bernama.com . The Euroepan parliament decided on 11 September that there would be a binding 5% quota on the use of... Posted Sep 15 2008, 11:27 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Policy, biofuels, Parliament, politics, Biodiesel, EU, Oil, Malaysia, soy, soya, palm

• Friends of the Earth and Brazil's sugar cane producers come to verbal blows

  Friends of the Earth and Brazil's sugar cane producers come to verbal blows in a report on Autoblog green . FOE accuses the Brazilians of monocultre that damages the environment and the Brazilians respond. Read More... Posted Sep 15 2008, 11:20 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Agriculture, Brazil, earth, of, the, FOE, friends

• Will new biofuels policy create more problems?

  The Indian cabinet has approved a national biofuel policy that is likely set a higher blending target. Details of the policy have not been announced but it has been reported that the government will mandate 20% ethanol or biodiesel blended petrol by 2017... Posted Sep 12 2008, 12:20 PM by India Chemicals Blog Filed under: ethanol, biofuels, Biodiesel, Jatropha, Government Policy, economy

• Poet to make cellulosic biofuel by year end

  Poet LLC, formerly Broin, says it will be making cellulosic ethanol at a plant in Dakota by the end of the year , according to a report in Iowa Farmer Today. It looks like Poet will be using DuPont technology, under an agreement signed in 2006 to make... Posted Sep 11 2008, 10:56 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: America, USA, US, ethanol, Corn, technology, cellulosic, stover, Broin, cob, Dakota., Poet

• Kraft food leads biofuel fightback

  The CEO of Kraft Foods is leading a fightback against ethanol subsidies in the US , according to Huffington Post. Read More... Posted Sep 11 2008, 10:17 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: US, ethanol, politics, subsidies, Kraft

• Looking at the economics of distillers grains

  Nice piece in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader looking at the way that sales of distillers grains is helping to support the ethanol industry in the US. Historically, distillers grain represented 10 percent of an ethanol plant's revenue stream, said Jerry... Posted Sep 11 2008, 09:56 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, Economics, biofuels, Bioethanol, distillers, grains, Leader, Falls, Sioux, Argus

• Ethanol to power in Pakistan

  There's an interesting story about Pakistani sugar cane growers making ethanol to power an electricity generation station from the Associated Press of Pakistan . Could this model be used elsewhere? Thanks to rsteenblik . Read More... Posted Sep 10 2008, 10:27 AM by The Big Biofuels Blog Filed under: ethanol, biofuels, power, Sugar, cane, Pakistan