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by Jack Laurenson (Kiyv Post) Biomass as a replacement for Russian gas in heating is one grassroots initiative that has become an emerging business, earning real profits for investors. For example, the biogas outlet in Velyky Krupil, Kyiv Oblast, provides electricity for a local milk farm. The European Bank for Reconstruction
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by Anton Usov (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development/Biomass Magazine) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development provided a senior loan of €25 million to PJSC “Myronivsky Hliboproduct” (MHP), a London Stock Exchange listed Ukrainian producer of poultry meat, grain and fodder. The loan will be used to construct and put
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 65 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) once specified a
January 2, 2018 Read Full Article
(UkrAgroConsult) According to the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine, a finalized draft law on the bioethanol and biodiesel market will shortly be submitted to Parliament for registration and consideration, reports UkrAgroConsult. The Agency has drafted a law setting up a legal basis for stimulating production and use
October 4, 2017 Read Full Article
(BlackSeaGrain.net) The State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine is going to shortly register in Parliament a bill regulating the mandatory use of biofuel in gasoline, said the Agency’s Head Sergiy Savchuk. According to him, this bill envisages that the gasoline composition in Ukraine must include at
September 6, 2017 Read Full Article
(Ukraine Open for Business) The Ukrteplo Group, operating the largest network of biofuel boilers in the country, intends to build a combined heat and power plant (CHPP) with a capacity of 12 MW in Odesa region. The plant will consume agricultural waste. The group also wants to build a bio-ethanol plant. Head
August 4, 2017 Read Full Article
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 64 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) specified a 10
December 29, 2016 Read Full Article
by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine) A report recently filed with the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service’s Global Agricultural Information Network provides an overview of the European Union’s biofuel market, including data on wood pellets and biogas. Regarding pellets, the report explains that the EU is the world’s largest wood pellet market,
August 2, 2016 Read Full Article
by Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Peder Holk Nielsen (Novozymes) Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Novozymes’ CEO take steps to highlight Europe’s problematic addiction to oil – and what can be done about it — … Europe is addicted to oil. We live in a fossil-fuel-driven economy, and
February 23, 2016 Read Full Article
by Ewa Krukowska (Bloomberg/Renewable Energy World) European Union governments and companies would do better increasing production of renewables, such as biofuels, than counting on a natural-gas pipeline from Russia to ensure energy security, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The 28-nation EU is seeking to guarantee energy flows while
February 16, 2016 Read Full Article
by Mathew Carr (BloombergBusiness) Markets will help drive emission reductions under Paris deal; Rules needed to ensure markets have environmental integrity — Eighteen nations including the U.S., Japan and Germany will work together to develop international carbon markets to help speed the pace of emission reductions under the Paris climate
December 15, 2015 Read Full Article
by Ilya Timtchenko (Kyiv Post) An estimated 600 million hryvnias ($28 million) in losses last year and 41 rundown factories – that’s what Roman Ivaniuk inherited at the beginning of January, when he accepted his latest job as temporary general director of Ukrspyrt. Ukrspyrt, the country’s monopoly producer of potable
October 14, 2015 Read Full Article
by Arthur Neslen (The Guardian) Major UNFCCC carbon trading scheme hit by serious corruption allegations involving organised crime in Russia and Ukraine — A key carbon offsetting scheme was so open to abuse that three quarters of its allowances lacked environmental integrity, a new report says. UN officials confirm the findings
August 25, 2015 Read Full Article
by By Tom Schenk (Agriculture 2.0) Over the past ten years, scores of articles have been written about the merits of investing in farmland as well as the challenges of producing enough food to feed a population that is growing at the rate of about 80 million per year at the
July 17, 2015 Read Full Article
(Ukrainian Biofuel Portal) According to the decree №319 from May 20, 12 distilleries owned by the state have been excluded from the list of companies eligible for the production of bioethanol. This document change the decree “On approval of lists of companies with all stages of the technological process of mineral
June 30, 2015 Read Full Article
by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine) The Pew Charitable Trusts has released a report, titled “Power Shifts: Emerging Clean Energy Markets,” that shows clean energy investment in developing countries has grown in real and relative terms. The report addresses a wide variety of technology types including solar, wind, geothermal, small hydro,
June 3, 2015 Read Full Article
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … There are a lot of biofuel sources in Ukraine. And KNU is the center of fundamental and applied researches at this field (formation, reforming, etc.) READ MORE
June 3, 2015 Read Full Article
(Ukrainian Biofuel Portal) According to official statistics, in 2014 the production volumes and alcohol sales exceedingly declined, which posed the menace for the domestic industry existence. Last year the export volume of alcohol reached only 200 thousands of dal, and 14, 5 millions of dal have been sold within the
April 21, 2015 Read Full Article
(Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves) This year marks the third round of the Pilot Innovation Fund (PIF), which provides funding and capacity building to organizations and entrepreneurs to develop and test game-changing ideas for the clean cooking sector, either through technology or business model innovation. In return for seed capital
February 10, 2015 Read Full Article
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Who mandates what in biofuels? 64 countries have targets or mandates — but how much where, and when, and what? In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in
January 5, 2015 Read Full Article
(KSG Agro) In the production of biofuels one should take into account the need to maintain soil fertility. This was mentioned by KSG Agro Holding’s CEO Mr. Sergey Mazin during the V Ukrainian Grain Congress, held in Kiev on November 25-26. In the development of alternative energy, in particular, in
December 18, 2014 Read Full Article
by Richard Weiner (Fredrikson & Byron/Biodiesel Magazine) The Council of the European Union has recently enacted regulations that require the member states of the European Union to impose sanctions against Russian individuals and companies in response to Russia’s military action in Ukraine. These new sanctions may have adverse consequences for European
October 29, 2014 Read Full Article
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … With more than 65 years of experience in automotive and fuels research and development, SwRI is uniquely positioned as an international expert in the research, development and testing of renewable fuels. … As Emission Chemist, my main focus is in the investigation and characterization of
October 14, 2014 Read Full Article
The Black Sea region has seen significant investment and development undertaken in the agriculture sector – with Russia and Ukraine driving huge growth in export volumes, primarily of wheat and corn. Looking beyond the region, the Black Sea must compete with other powerhouse production locations such as North and South
September 17, 2014 Read Full Article
by Jerry Perkins (Des Moines Register) If Ukraine can build a renewable energy sector based on its vast agricultural production, it won’t need Russian energy and could, perhaps, protect its sovereignty to a much greater extent than it can today because of its Achilles’ heel of energy dependence. Instead of
July 11, 2014 Read Full Article
The main objective of the Forum: the development of the biofuel industry in Ukraine by establishing a strong information and communication business platform. Provide companies with effective management of opportunities and gain a competitive advantage in the biofuel market, diversification of business and waste management, as well as the tax benefits
March 24, 2014 Read Full Article
by Brendan Greeley (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) … In the developing world, it’s tempting for a country to keep the price of fossil fuels artificially low. The subsidy can take the form of a price cap, preventing oil companies from charging too much at the pump. Or it can come as a tax
March 14, 2014 Read Full Article
(KyivPost) Ukraine’s government-owned ethanol producer Ukrspyrt and several smaller private producers announced on Oct. 29 that they’re prepared to produce enough bioethanol to meet the need for biofuel as of next year. In 2014, a new law comes into effect that makes it a requirement to add bioethanol to car
October 31, 2013 Read Full Article
by Mackinnon Lawrence (Forbes) … Companies like SG Biofuels, Ceres, and others are squarely focused on biotechnology innovation, involving complex biological modifications at the crop’s cellular and genetic level. The central focus of these efforts is the optimization of dedicated energy crops for growth in a variety of locations where food crops are not
October 25, 2013 Read Full Article
(Ukrainian Journal) The volume of molasses made in Ukraine in a year is enough to produce only 100,000 tons of bioethanol, which is one third of the country’s needs for 2014, Director of Ukrprodspilka Mykola Tychenko, said at a roundtable in Kiev on Tuesday. READ MORE and MORE (Biofuels International) and
October 18, 2013 Read Full Article
by Alexander Bor (Platts) Ukraine’s State Food Grain Corporation, one of the country’s largest grain traders, has won a certificate allowing it to export raw materials for biofuel production in the EU, the company said Friday. “After getting access to the EU markets, we get a chance to export our
September 18, 2013 Read Full Article
(www.4-Traders.com) This year the Government continues to develop alternative fuel sources, in particular, to increase the production of bioethanol. It is provided by the State Program of activation of the economic development for 2013-2014. To do this,a number of distilling plants will change the line of business. This in turn
April 5, 2013 Read Full Article
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …This past week in Rotterdam, I ran into algae biofuels’ very own “Dr. No”, John Benemann — known for his succinct and characteristic analysis of new ventures aimed at making renewable fuels from algae: “It won’t be affordable.”. We got to taking about the role
March 19, 2013 Read Full Article
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In California, Global Clean Energy Holdings announced that it has acquired Sustainable Oils, a leader in Camelina genetics and production. The acquisition includes 100% ownership interest of Sustainable Oils and the ownership of the key intellectual property and operational assets. Camelina is the only non-food based
March 15, 2013 Read Full Article
by Nina Chestney (Reuters) * U.S. cellulosic biofuel goals not reached * Beta sees industry stepping up output by 2015 * New players could emerge from eastern Europe Biofuels made from wood waste and sugarcane have languished well below expectations for years but new production coming on line promises explosive
March 5, 2013 Read Full Article
Complications connected with export of the national grain lead to the idea to change the structure of agricultural production. Some experts think that grain could be substituted by rape, as this crop is always in demand on the world market. Yet for the time being the rape harvest in Ukraine
August 9, 2012 Read Full Article
Over 200 bioenergy experts are expected to join the Ukrainian Bioenergy Business Forum 2012 conference cum exhibition. Taking place in Kiev on 27-28 September 2012, this strictly B2B conference focuses on commercial opportunities and challenges brought about by the development of the bioenergy energy market in the Ukraine, international cooperation in trade and project
March 28, 2012 Read Full Article
(Kyiv Post) Chinese investors are to change the line of business of a distillery in the Village of Popovka in Konotop district (Sumy region) to the production of bioethanol, reads a posting on the Web site of Sumy Regional State Administration. …The CEO of the Ukraine-China council on trade and
March 7, 2012 Read Full Article
(Pellets-Wood.com) The Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine announced that it intends to allocate 40 million tons of sugar beet for the production of biofuel. It will reduce the volume of imports of fuel and, in addition, biofuel is environmentally safe for the environment. READ MORE
February 20, 2012 Read Full Article
by Olexander Martinenko, Vitaliy Radchenko, Volodymyr Kolvakh and Tetyana Rabczak (Mondaq) The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has recently adopted Resolution No. 581, establishing a procedure for tax exempt import of machinery, vehicles and other equipment that falls under the customs codes stipulated by Article 7 of the Law of
June 27, 2011 Read Full Article
(Monsters and Critics) Scientists are to plant and harvest grass inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in an experiment to determine if biofuel can be safely produced in the region, an alternative-energy company said Monday. PhotoFuels, a Belgian-Ukrainian joint venture, has obtained approval from the Ukraine government to plant several test fields
May 19, 2011 Read Full Article
(GreenCarCongress/FavStocks) The Ukraine is considering using part of its crop of fodder potatoes—i.e., potatoes used for animal feed—for the production of biofuel. The Ukraine is one of the top potato producers in the world, ranking fourth in volume in 2008 (behind China, India and Russia), but only sixth in terms
May 2, 2011 Read Full Article
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