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ALTERNATIVE FUELS * USA & UK
* UK - Report: Biomethane for Transport, HGV cost modelling
London,UK -Low CVP -4 May 2012: -- A new study commissioned by the LowCVP finds that operating heavy commercial vehicles on biomethane can lead to lower operating costs compared to conventional diesel operation but that the capacity of the delivery infrastructure has an important bearing on economic viability... The study, prepared by Transport and Travel Research (TTR) with Joulevert, found that HGV operators with average vehicle mileages and access to large capacity infrastructure can make cost savings. The costs of operating dedicated or dual fuel trucks is most attractive where operators can access the economies of scale arising from a 5,000-10,000kg/day refuelling station (sufficient for 50-100 trucks)... Reducing the refuelling station size to 2,000kg/day or below, quickly makes the economics less attractive. Hence smaller operators (which make up the majority of the HGV industry) will struggle to make gas vehicles pay back unless they can join forces with other operators to invest in larger refuelling stations. The report says that well-to-wheel analysis of automotive fossil fuels and powertrains carried out by CONCAWE shows that biomethane produced from municipal waste is able to achieve GHG savings of about 50% compared with conventional fossil fuels...
* Minnesota - Ethanol makers feel the squeeze
(Photo by Glen Stubbe, Star Tribune: A driver for Kwik Trip filled his tanker truck with ethanol from the Al-Corn ethanol plant in Claremont, Minn., one of the state’s longest-running ethanol plants)
Minneapolis,MN,USA -The Star Tribune, by DAVID SHAFFER -June 5, 2012: -- The end of federal subsidies at the end of 2011 left ethanol plants struggling to make money in a glutted market early this year. One ethanol industry executive called it the "hangover effect.".. About three-fourths of U.S. ethanol plants either lost money or merely broke even in the first quarter after federal incentives to blend the corn-based fuel expired, according to data released at an industry conference Tuesday... The slide in profit margins, after a strong fourth quarter in 2011, happened mainly because oil companies and gasoline suppliers stocked up on ethanol to capture the 45-cent-per-gallon federal blender subsidy before it expired Dec. 31 -- then slowed their buying, industry officials said...Labels: alternative fuels, ethanol
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