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Latin American biofuels active; Potential exists says Frost & Sullivan

This year is expected to be a difficult one for biofuels in Latin America, with investments anticipated to be 40% lower than last year according to a Frost & Sullivan analyst. But at the same time, new analyses finds that biofuel is has a lot of potential in the region, with market participants strongly pursuing growth strategies and research on new biofuels to boost this market amid difficult times.

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Solazyme gets funding from California Energy Commission

Solazyme, a renewable oil and bioproducts company which leads algal biotechnology was recently awarded a US $789,697 grant by the California Energy Commission, California’s primary energy policy and planning agency, to develop clean fuel from cellulosic feedstocks.

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Australia grants 15 million for second generation biofuel

As Australia looks down the barrel of a $25-billion (Australian) trade deficit in petroleum products by 2015, the government turns to alternative fuels through its 15-million-dollar Second Generation Biofuels Research and Development Program.

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Plankton Power establishes biorefinery at Cape Cod

A biorefinery processing algae for biofuels was recently established at Cape Cod in Massachusetts according to its leaders Plankton Power and the Regional Technology Development Corp. (RTDC).

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Mantria Industries opens world’s first commercial-scale biochar facility

Mantria Industries, LLC recently announced the opening of the Mantria Place EternaGreen Center—which it called the first and largest commercial-scale BioChar facility in the world—in Dunlap, Tennessee.

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NASA enzyme mimics nature for making cellulosic biofuels

NASA scientists are working with new enzymes for obtaining cellulose for producing food and biofuel.

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More sugar substances as ethanol candidates

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently developed a new yeast that can use more kinds of sugar substances into ethanol, a development with the potential to fast-track biofuel production.

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Transport firm tries biodiesel produced from algae oil

One of the largest transportation services provider in North America has signed an agreement with algae development company SunEco Energy to purchase biodiesel produced from natural algae oil using SunEco’s proprietary technology.

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Florida power supplier now offers biomass

Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc., the provider of wholesale electricity to 10 electric distribution cooperatives in Florida, recently announced its plan to provide biomass energy after the company signed a contract with Southeast Renewable Fuels, a developer of renewable resources whose primary focus is the production of biofuels from agricultural feedstocks.

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2,000 Indiana homes to be powered by landfill gas

In the US state of Indiana, a landfill gas-to-electricity project was officially opened yesterday (July 23) in the town of Winslow at Pike County. Called the Blackfoot Clean Energy Facility, the project is expected to generate 3.2 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power around 2,000 homes.

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