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    Spanish company Ferry Group is to invest €42/US$55.2 million in a project for the production of biomass fuel pellets in Bulgaria. The 3-year project consists of establishing plantations of paulownia trees near the city of Tran. Paulownia is a fast-growing tree used for the commercial production of fuel pellets. Dnevnik - Feb. 20, 2007.

    Hungary's BHD Hõerõmû Zrt. is to build a 35 billion Forint (€138/US$182 million) commercial biomass-fired power plant with a maximum output of 49.9 MW in Szerencs (northeast Hungary). Portfolio.hu - Feb. 20, 2007.

    Tonight at 9pm, BBC Two will be showing a program on geo-engineering techniques to 'save' the planet from global warming. Five of the world's top scientists propose five radical scientific inventions which could stop climate change dead in its tracks. The ideas include: a giant sunshade in space to filter out the sun's rays and help cool us down; forests of artificial trees that would breath in carbon dioxide and stop the green house effect and a fleet futuristic yachts that will shoot salt water into the clouds thickening them and cooling the planet. BBC News - Feb. 19, 2007.

    Archer Daniels Midland, the largest U.S. ethanol producer, is planning to open a biodiesel plant in Indonesia with Wilmar International Ltd. this year and a wholly owned biodiesel plant in Brazil before July, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The Brazil plant is expected to be the nation's largest, the paper said. Worldwide, the company projects a fourfold rise in biodiesel production over the next five years. ADM was not immediately available to comment. Reuters - Feb. 16, 2007.

    Finnish engineering firm Pöyry Oyj has been awarded contracts by San Carlos Bioenergy Inc. to provide services for the first bioethanol plant in the Philippines. The aggregate contract value is EUR 10 million. The plant is to be build in the Province of San Carlos on the north-eastern tip of Negros Island. The plant is expected to deliver 120,000 liters/day of bioethanol and 4 MW of excess power to the grid. Kauppalehti Online - Feb. 15, 2007.

    In order to reduce fuel costs, a Mukono-based flower farm which exports to Europe, is building its own biodiesel plant, based on using Jatropha curcas seeds. It estimates the fuel will cut production costs by up to 20%. New Vision (Kampala, Uganda) - Feb. 12, 2007.

    The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to use 10% biodiesel in its fleet of public buses. The world's largest city is served by the Toei Bus System, which is used by some 570,000 people daily. Digital World Tokyo - Feb. 12, 2007.

    Fearing lack of electricity supply in South Africa and a price tag on CO2, WSP Group SA is investing in a biomass power plant that will replace coal in the Letaba Citrus juicing plant which is located in Tzaneen. Mining Weekly - Feb. 8, 2007.

    In what it calls an important addition to its global R&D capabilities, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is to build a new bioenergy research center in Hamburg, Germany. World Grain - Feb. 5, 2007.

    EthaBlog's Henrique Oliveira interviews leading Brazilian biofuels consultant Marcelo Coelho who offers insights into the (foreign) investment dynamics in the sector, the history of Brazilian ethanol and the relationship between oil price trends and biofuels. EthaBlog - Feb. 2, 2007.

    The government of Taiwan has announced its renewable energy target: 12% of all energy should come from renewables by 2020. The plan is expected to revitalise Taiwan's agricultural sector and to boost its nascent biomass industry. China Post - Feb. 2, 2007.

    Production at Cantarell, the world's second biggest oil field, declined by 500,000 barrels or 25% last year. This virtual collapse is unfolding much faster than projections from Mexico's state-run oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos. Wall Street Journal - Jan. 30, 2007.

    Dubai-based and AIM listed Teejori Ltd. has entered into an agreement to invest €6 million to acquire a 16.7% interest in Bekon, which developed two proprietary technologies enabling dry-fermentation of biomass. Both technologies allow it to design, establish and operate biogas plants in a highly efficient way. Dry-Fermentation offers significant advantages to the existing widely used wet fermentation process of converting biomass to biogas. Ame Info - Jan. 22, 2007.

    Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited is to build a biofuel production plant in the tribal belt of Banswara, Rajasthan, India. The petroleum company has acquired 20,000 hectares of low value land in the district, which it plans to commit to growing jatropha and other biofuel crops. The company's chairman said HPCL was also looking for similar wasteland in the state of Chhattisgarh. Zee News - Jan. 15, 2007.

    The Zimbabwean national police begins planting jatropha for a pilot project that must result in a daily production of 1000 liters of biodiesel. The Herald (Harare), Via AllAfrica - Jan. 12, 2007.

    In order to meet its Kyoto obligations and to cut dependence on oil, Japan has started importing biofuels from Brazil and elsewhere. And even though the country has limited local bioenergy potential, its Agriculture Ministry will begin a search for natural resources, including farm products and their residues, that can be used to make biofuels in Japan. To this end, studies will be conducted at 900 locations nationwide over a three-year period. The Japan Times - Jan. 12, 2007.

    Chrysler's chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched an arrogant attack on "quasi-hysterical Europeans" and their attitudes to global warming, calling the Stern Review 'dubious'. The remarks illustrate the yawning gap between opinions on climate change among Europeans and Americans, but they also strengthen the view that announcements by US car makers and legislators about the development of green vehicles are nothing more than window dressing. Today, the EU announced its comprehensive energy policy for the 21st century, with climate change at the center of it. BBC News - Jan. 10, 2007.

    The new Canadian government is investing $840,000 into BioMatera Inc. a biotech company that develops industrial biopolymers (such as PHA) that have wide-scale applications in the plastics, farmaceutical and cosmetics industries. Plant-based biopolymers such as PHA are biodegradable and renewable. Government of Canada - Jan. 9, 2007.


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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

James Monroe Corp targets developing countries for ethanol plant exports

James Monroe Corporation has found a new favorite customer: the developing world. Due to demand from developing countries, James Monroe Capital is responding with a new marketing plan. Diversified Ethanol, a subsidiary of James Monroe Capital, is engineering and manufacturing small, modular and more easily affordable ethanol plants. The plants can run on a variety of biomass feedstocks, including fruit waste, (tropical) grasses, and all other sources of sugars.

Many developing countries have abundant sugar crops, with fruit processing plants and sugarcane fields. Some export these crops, and receive low prices for their crops and their waste products. Also, many of these countries suffer from very high fuel costs, and have very low labor costs. Some lack the rail and freight logistics systems to handle giant ethanol plants, and the finances to build them, so a decentralised infrastructure is more interesting. To top it all off, some of these countries are also very hot, year round, and can run their vehicles on 190 proof fuel, which is much cheaper to produce than the 200 proof needed in the US. Even the byproducts of the ethanol process are edible. All of these factors have sent several small countries, investors, and governmental heavies into a race to see who can dominate their markets first.

Small, modular biofuel plants play a crucial role in carrying out the bioenergy paradigm in which local resource control, decentralisation and energy independence take center stage.

The company’s new marketing plan includes targeting plant-buying investors with strong foreign relationships, especially governmental ties, and building relationships with key people overseas.

Diversified ethanol's fuel plants and services come as an integrated package with the the following specifications:
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-The standard A500 plant costs US$1.6 million dollars.

-It is designed to operate 24/7, be low maintenance, and provide roughly 1.9 million liters (500,000 gallons) per year. It is guaranteed to produce 190 proof at 230 litres (62 gallons) per hour from milled feedstock when delivered. Additional profits are realized by selling the nutritient and edible by-product, wet cake distiller's grains, to local farmers for nearly the price of corn. If you require 200 proof, the matching small molecular sieve is available, additionally. Final numbers will be provided soon, when engineering is finished, including BTU information, and so on.

-the standard package and training should be more than enough to ensure success to clients, but if lenders require buyers to have a long-term guarantees, the company offers its Guaranteed Service and Management contract, for a percentage of profit sharing.

-The plant design is modular, so owners can keep adding lines. Or, if they prefer to build-up, the company offers an upgrade program where it will sell the owners' used equipment.

-The advantages of using small fermentation batches are numerous: there is less risk, permitting is easier, energy service to the facility is simple, shutting down one line for service doesn't shut down the entire plant, it is compatible with lower-cost locations, upgrading and growing the plant is simple, and one can quickly begin producing ethanol with a minimum of capital outlay.

-The plant can be switched to take herbaceous feedstocks (such as tropical grass grops) for the production of ethanol, once the enzymes become available. The only changes needed are a suitable grinder, different enzymes, and some fine-tuning.

-The power requirements for the plant: the design can be used with almost any type of boiler and any type of feedstock, including biomass heat. The model plant uses less energy (due to ease of selling wet distillers grains) and is therefore less dependent on fuel selection.



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