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60 Ethanol Plants Earn Green Seal

matheusgagliano Jan 11, 2018

Sixty ethanol and sugar plants were awarded the Green Energy Certificate, issued by the Unica Bioelectricity Certification Program sponsored with Abraceel (Brazilian association of energy resellers) and the Electric Energy Commercialization…

Biogas To Bet on Carbon Credits for Growth

Redação Oct 18, 2017

The biogas and biomethane sector is firmly committed to RenovaBio, a federal program to reduce emissions based on biofuels, to take advantage of the enormous biogas potential - estimated at 80 million m³/day in Brazil according to a…

New Harvest, More Robust

Redação Nov 6, 2014

The return of rains in November tends to reduce the sugar content in the cane which renders it appropriate for ethanol production Given the accelerated grinding of sugarcane during the first half of October…

Biodiesel Plant

Redação Oct 31, 2014

From 2,000 trees evaluated, 40 were chosen to be the progenitors of the first generation of improved seedlings The Agroenergy division of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) has begun…

76 m³ In Offers

Redação Oct 27, 2014

The additional auction was held by the ANP to meet the demand of the new percentage mix of biodiesel in diesel oil, set at 7%. Mills offered a total volume of 76,064 m³ in biodiesel during the 39th…

2G Ethanol Enzyme In Brazil

Redação Oct 23, 2014

According to the company, 2G would not compete with traditional ethanol, being, rather, a complementary output The president of Novozymes in Brazil, Pedro Luiz Fernandes, announced the biotechnology company would…

Raízen To Produce 2G Ethanol

Redação Oct 23, 2014

Straw will also be one of the raw materials used Raízen, the sugarcane-energy company created from a joint venture between Shell and Cosan, is putting a production unit for second generation (2G)…

US$ 2.8 Billion For Ethanol

Redação Oct 22, 2014

Acoording to the bank the pursuit of efficiency through agricultural and industrial innovation is the solution for the segment According to valor Econômico, the head of the biofuels Department of the…

Biodiesel Sets New Record

Redação Oct 20, 2014

With capacity to produce 82 MM liters/year, the GranBio cellulosic ethanol plant (photo) was featured in the Bulletin Biodiesel production reached a new record in August, totaling 307,000 m³ in volume,…

Prior Listing

Redação Oct 15, 2014

The National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) today (October 15) released the preliminary qualification of the plants authorized to participate in the 39th Biodiesel Auction - Supplemental. In the…

Ethanol Pipeline Gets US$ 203 MM

Redação Oct 14, 2014

The company is planning to open various projects simultaneously on the project Logum Logística is developing the final stages of the licensing application for stretches of the ethanol pipeline that will…

Dutch In Brazil Tout Biofuels

Redação Oct 13, 2014

Gol Airlines will be taking part of the conference To reinforce a longstanding partnership with Brazil in the area of bio-economy (i.e. projects involving biofuels, bioenergy and green plastics, among other…

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Apr 23, 2018 - Alterenergymag

For the first time in history, the production cost of renewables is lower than that of fossil fuels, Kaiserwetter, a leader in renewable energy asset management, can today reveal. Fossil fuels presented costs between US$ 49 and US$ 174 per MWh in the G20 countries during 2017, while renewable energy projects were between US$ 35 and US$ 54. The latest photovoltaic energy auctions in Dubai, Mexico, Chile, Abu Dhabi or Saudi Arabia, and onshore wind energy in Brazil, Canada, India or Morocco in 2017 suggests that the standard cost of energy can be reduced to US$ 30 per MWh from 2018. However, onshore wind energy has already achieved similar costs in projects across Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico and Morocco, already reaching US$ 30 MWh.

Apr 23, 2018 - Reuters

Brazil’s power company Neoenergia on Friday raised its takeover bid for power distribution company Eletropaulo Metropolitana SA) from 25.51 reais to 29.40 reais per share, according to a securities filing. Neoenergia, which is controlled by Spanish company Iberdrola, is competing with Italy’s Enel) for a controlling stake in Eletropaulo, Brazil’s largest power distribution firm. Enel had raised its offer on April 19 to 28 reais per share plus a cash injection of 1.5 billion reais to be made after the acquisition.

Apr 23, 2018 - Bloomberg

Mario Abdo Benitez, a former senator from the ruling Colorado Party, won Sunday’s presidential election in Paraguay, in a surprisingly narrow victory over the opposition candidate. Abdo Benitez, 46, whose father was the secretary of long-ruling dictator Alfredo Stroessner, had 46.4 percent of the vote, with almost 100 percent of voting stations counted, according to preliminary results from the electoral court. Former public works minister Efrain Alegre trailed with 42.7% of votes.

Apr 23, 2018 - Oilprice

After being caught up in major corruption scandals and suffering from what some have claimed was its worst economic downturn in 100-years, Brazil has pulled itself back from the brink. The economy commenced growing again in 2017 with gross domestic product (GDP) expanding by 1 percent and 2018 GDP growth forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be 2.3%. One of the key drivers of Brazil’s improving economic outlook are Brasilia’s plans to launch what could become the biggest oil boom in Latin American history. You see, Brazil possesses what is rated as being among the top offshore oil assets globally, the massive pre-salt oil fields located in the Atlantic Ocean on the Latin nation’s continental shelf.