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	<title>Hawaii Agriculture &#187; Biofuels</title>
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		<title>Biofuels become a victim of own success &#8211; but not for long &#124; Damian Carrington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Biofuels have become a victim of own success, it appears: for the first time in a decade global production has dropped. Production in 2011 dropped a touch from 1.822m barrels a day in 2010 to 1.819m in 2011, according to IEA statistics (p30) highlighted by the Financial Times.
The key reason has been the rising cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locally made biofuel to power airport emergency generator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Hawaiian Electric Co. has selected Pacific Biodiesel Inc. to supply locally produced biodiesel for an emergency power generation system at Honolulu International Airport.
Maui-based Pacific Biodiesel will provide HECO with at least 250,000 gallons of made from locally recycled cooking oil under the three-year contract, the companies said. The biodiesel will be burned in an 8-megawatt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate vote to repeal ethanol tax credit fails, but some in GOP break ranks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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A majority of Senate Republicans appeared to break Tuesday with two decades of GOP orthodoxy against higher taxes, voting to advance a plan to abruptly cancel billions of dollars in annual tax credits for ethanol blenders.
The measure, offered by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), fell short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster threat. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HC&amp;S: Sugar ‘at the top,’ can anything knock it off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 21:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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PUUNENE
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Hawaii will arrive on Maui this summer to work with Hawaiian Commercial &#38; Sugar Co. to study crops, growing conditions and other issues in developing biofuels on the island.
The 130-year-old plantation is working with federal and state partners to help determine not only its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kona company starts algae-to-oil production</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Cellana Inc. said it has begun producing oil from algae grown at its Kona facility and is on track to begin commercial production by 2014.
The Big Island company is harvesting up to one ton of algae a month in ponds at its 6-acre facility at Keahole Point. The company estimates it will be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algae producer Cellana gets $5.5M to develop animal feed</title>
		<link>http://hawaii-agriculture.com/hawaii-agriculture-blog/algae-producer-cellana-gets-5-5m-to-develop-animal-feed-hawaii-news-staradvertiser-com/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 01:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Kona-based Cellana LLC has received a $5.5 million federal grant to develop animal feed from algae grown at its facility at Keahole Point.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be combined with $1.6 million raised by Cellana for the project titled “Developing a new Generation of Animal Feed Supplements,” according to a news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Price of Farmland, Echoes of Another Boom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
he 80 acres of rich farmland that Jeff Freking and his brother Randy bought near Le Mars, Iowa, on Monday for $10,000 an acre would seem to have nothing in common with a condo in Miami or a house in Las Vegas.
But as prices for agricultural land surge across America’s grain belt, regulators are warning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii Ranked Third in On-Farm Renewable Energy Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service Hawaii Field Office (NASS), Hawaii ranked third highest in the nation in terms of the number of farms and ranches producing on-farm renewable energy. With a total of 8,569 farms nationally reporting solar panels, wind turbines, and/or methane digesters, Hawaii’s 522 reporting farms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HECO pursues palm oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Hawaiian Electric Co. engineers knew they were venturing into the unknown when company executives tasked them with finding out whether one of the utility&#8217;s 40-year-old petroleum-fired steam generating units could run on crude palm oil.
For years the tropical vegetable oil has been used primarily as an ingredient in a variety of consumer goods like snack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AINA KOA PONO asked the state Legislature yesterday to support a 15 percent tax credit for building a refinery in Pahala</title>
		<link>http://hawaii-agriculture.com/hawaii-agriculture-blog/aina-koa-pono-asked-the-state-legislature-yesterday-to-support-a-15-percent-tax-credit-for-building-a-refinery-in-pahala/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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`AINA KOA PONO asked the state Legislature yesterday to support a 15 percent tax credit for building a refinery here in Pahala. Chris Eldridge, who also owns American Mattress stores around the state, is an `Aina Koa Pono partner. His testimony for yesterday’s hearing describes former sugar lands, now largely used by the cattle industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eucalyptus trees harvested in Hamakua for power experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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HILO, Hawaii &#62;&#62; Hamakua eucalyptus is being cut down and sent to Oahu to see how it will work as fuel in a generator operated by AES Hawaii Inc.
West Hawaii Today reported today that American Forest Management has cut about 20 acres of 14,000 acres leased from Kamehameha Schools for the test project. The trees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Island company inks deal to provide biofuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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HONOLULU (AP) &#8211; Crops grown on the Big Island will be converted into liquid fuel as part of a deal between Hawaiian Electric Co. and renewable energy company Aina Koa Pono.
The agreement is the first in Hawaii to produce enough biofuel for use in power plants, where it will be converted to electricity.
By 2015, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii utility receives $110M loan guarantee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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HONOLULU (AP) &#8212; The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative has received a $110 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Hawaii&#8217;s Democratic Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka said Thursday in a Washington news release that the loan guarantee will be used to expand renewable energy initiatives.
They say the guarantee includes nearly $73 million for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statements about Pacific Biodiesel were untrue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Mahalo for coverage of the palm oil importation (The Maui News, Nov. 11) that seems to remain an issue despite all the talk about development of local, sustainable biofuel crops. Some corrections to the article are in order.
The inaccuracies are not The Maui News&#8217; fault, assuming Hawaiian Electric Co.&#8217;s Pete Rosegg was quoted correctly. Pete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website will accept applications to supply renewable energy to HECO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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 A website is being launched for a new program that allows Hawaii residents and businesses to apply to sell their renewable energy to the electric utility.
Hawaiian Electric Co. said today the website will accept applications of those who want to participate in the program, known as a feed-in tariff, which offers pre-established rates and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrecy surrounds ranch&#8217;s sale of 3,509 acres to biofuel pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Michael Saalfeld, a German industrialist and biofuel pioneer, has purchased the North Kohala acreage Parker Ranch quietly sold in August, according to government records.
One of Saalfeld&#8217;s many companies, Kukuipahu Makai, paid $49.3 million for 35 parcels comprising 3,509 acres, according to Hawaii County tax records.
The state&#8217;s business registry lists Saalfeld and his wife, Jeannette, as [...]]]></description>
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