In Singapore, the spread between palm oil futures and gasoil futures known as POGO has been hanging out at record highs thanks to higher soy oil prices supporting palm oil and gasoil prices... Read more
In France, the government’s consumer and fraud watchdog has investigated the use of antibiotics in the production of ethanol for biofuels, a practice that promotes the development of antibio... Read more
In Iowa, America’s Renewable Future (ARF) newest radio ad highlights Sen. Ted Cruz’s hypocritical position on oil subsidies support at the expense of the unsubsidized Renewable Fuel Standard... Read more
India increased the subsidy for fitting rooftop solar power systems eightfold to 50 billion rupees ($753 million) in a bid to expand installations by a similar amount by 2020. Commercial and... Read more
In Cambodia, cassava farmers are looking to the government to help support them as prices collapse. Prices are about half what they were last year but the government blames low prices on poo... Read more
In India, palm oil imports are expected to rise marginally by 100,000 metric tons through October 2016 from current record imports to 9.7 million tons. Concerns about impacts from El Niño on... Read more
In Uruguay, Alcoholes del Uruguay has secured the country’s first biofuel export with 100,000 liters of used cooking oil-based biodiesel heading to the Netherlands. The fuel was to Argos sol... Read more
In Canada, PriceWaterhouseCoopers has been appointed by the Court of Queen’s Bench as receivers of NorAmera BioEnergy and NorAmera Technologies who own the NorAmera ethanol plant in Weyborn.... Read more
In the UK, China New Energy has signed its first North America deal worth C$3 million and has closed a funding round for GBP200,000 to an unnamed private investor. The shares were sold at a... Read more
In Wisconsin, a six-year Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) study on the viability of different bioenergy feedstocks recently demonstrated that perennial cropping systems such as... Read more
