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Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, and Codexis Inc. will roll out technology this year to make biofuels from wheat straw and sugar-cane bagasse, the cellulose-rich waste from cane processing. Shell and Codexis...

Two-thirds of the biofuels used on UK roads are not fully sustainable, a new report has revealed. A study by the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) and presented to Parliament shows that just 31 per cent of biofuel feedstock met a...

Is algae losing its green bubbling allure? Shell seems to think so as it sold its stake in algae biofuel developer Cellana to its joint venture partner HR BioPetroleum (HRBP). Cellana was formed by Shell and HRBP in 2007 to...

Hawaiian Electric Company has successfully used renewable biofuel to fire a petroleum oil-fired steam turbine generator. The Kahe #3 Biofuel Co-firing Demonstration Project is being conducted in cooperation with the Electric...

BP plans to invest $1 billion in 2011 in its renewable energy business, roughly the same amount it invested last year. During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, BP CEO Bob Dudley said that a bulk of the company’s green...