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The production of biofuels is a bigger cause of land grab deals than was previously thought, a new report suggests. New and extensive research by the International Land Coalition  (ILC) reveals that more than half of all land grabbing deals in developing countries over the last decade are attributably to biofuel production. Covering a full [...]

One of the most fashionable capital cities in Europe – Stockholm – welcomed its first refuelling station for liquefied methane gas, LNG/LBG earlier this week. The filling station is part of a BiMe Trucks project that sees Volvo Trucks team up with AGA, with the latter supplying the liquefied gas. Its overall aim is to [...]

The UK is likely to miss its renewable fuel for transport targets without significant investment into a new generation of biofuels according to a new study from the National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC) commissioned by UK government. Prepared on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Department for Transport (DfT), [...]

One of the most important figures in the fuel industry believes that biofuels will be the single most important alternative to hydrocarbons over the next 20 years – even ahead of electricity and hydrogen. Arthur Reijnhart, the general manager of alternative energies and fuel development strategy for Shell, believes there will be an increasingly diverse [...]

Motorists could end up paying a premium of up to 8p per litre from next year, according to the Metro newspaper this week. According to reports, nearly one million motorists could suffer as the government prepares to increase the biofuel content in unleaded fuel from five per cent to ten per cent as directed by [...]

According to a new study at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil, if sugar cane is used as the feedstock to produce ethanol and electricity for the same final use then only four per cent of the world’s available cropland area would be needed to power a global fleet of hybrid and electric cars. [...]

Electric cars may be widely accepted as the future of motoring, but biofuels clearly still have a strong role to play if a new report from Pike Research is to be believed. It suggests that the increased production and consumption of biofuels will more than double the industry’s market value over the next decade – [...]

According to a new report by the National Research Council, theUnited Statesis likely to meet the cellulosic biofuel mandates outlined under the current Renewable Fuel Standard. The report finds that only in an environment with technological breakthroughs, high oil prices and a high implicit or actual carbon price would biofuels be cost competitive with petrol [...]

Tuesday 4 October, 2011. The Green Piece Column. Theoretically you could power a car with almost anything. Be that coffee beans as we learnt earlier (see story) or some form of synthetic fuel like that which Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) (see story) is working to produce. In such times when the industry is scrabbling to [...]

Sixty new green energy research projects aimed at dramatically improving how the US produces and uses energy, will take a share of a $156 million grant from the the US Department of Energy this week. Arun Majumdar Director of the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced the grants today, with the winning projects including [...]