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| Report From Biofuel Conference Held in Bulgaria | In the second of a series of workshops for biofuel end-users, the Biofuel Cities European Partnership brought together 35 stakeholders from Central and Eastern Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria in December 2007. On the agenda was a discussion of biofuels for transport and a reflection on the challenges facing biofuel end-users in the region, such as overly bureaucratic procedures, lack of institutional support and security of feedstock supply. | |
| Belarus Ethanol Project | A framework agreement signed by both the government of Belarus and Greenfield Project Management has effectively cleared the way for the plans for a 550 million litres per year ethanol plant to come to fruition. | |
| Belarus Signs Agreement with Irish Ethanol Company | The Government of Belarus and Greenfield Project Management, Dublin, Ireland, signed an agreement Dec. 18 to build a 550 million liter per year ethanol plant in the CIS nation. | |
| Belarus Acts to Harmonize Energy Rules With EU | Among other top priorities is improvement of qualitative characteristics of fuel and energy resources, including requirements to wood and peat fuels, rape seed oil and biomass. Belarus will also harmonize legal acts with EU directives and international standards. | |
| Belarus Hydro and Wind Possibilities Considered | The Minsk oblast plans to use the wind and water energy more effectively, Chairperson of the Economy Committee of Minsk City Hall Zhanna Birich told reporters. | |
| Belarus Timber Seen as Major Boiler Fuel Source | Dr. Edmund Lengfelder, chair of Germany's Otto Hug Institute, noted that Belarus has a lot of timber that is why he said it could borrow Western technologies for using timber waste as boiler fuel.
He also said that a boiler plant is currently built in the Volma environmental park near Minsk, which will burn wood. "When this plant is put into operation, everyone will see its efficiency," he said. "Belarus will be able to make such plants by itself and even sell them to other countries in the future."
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| Hrodna, Belarus Hydro Plant Design Approved by Cabinet | The Council of Ministers had approved an architectural design for a hydroelectric power plant to be built on the River Neman.
The directive says that a sum of 167.8 million rubels adjusted to inflation rates in 1991 will be spent on the first stage in the construction project. The project to be completed by 2010 is included in the government's innovation development program for 2007 through 2010.
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| Ukraine and Belarus Plan Biodiesel Cooperation | The two contries are planning a biodiesel plant and crrops in the Ternopol oblast. | |
| Belarus to Export Ethanol | elarus will soon begin to export fuel ethanol to the EU market.
Ireland's Greenfield Project Management Limited and Belarus' Belbiofarm pharmaceutical concern will set up two joint ventures on ethanol fuel production, the head of the Irish company's Belarus office, Andrei Aleinikov, said on Wednesday.
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| OSCE Minsk Office Holds Seminar on Alternative Energy Sources | Creating legal conditions for developing renewable alternative energy sources was the focus of a seminar organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office and the National Law Drafting Centre in Minsk on June 19th. | |
| Minsk, Belarus to Host Energy Event Featuring Renewables | The international seminar “Latest technologies of traditional and renewable power engineering and mechanisms of financing investment projects” will be held in Minsk on June 4-5, BelTA has been told in the state-run production association Belenergo.
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| Hydropower Considered in Belarus | Belarus and Iran are considering the opportunity of cooperation in the sphere of hydroelectric power plants construction in our country. According to Alyaksandr Sivak, the possible cooperation on implementation of the Grodna and Polatsk hydroelectric power plants construction projects are meant here. He also emphasized that everything would be determined by the tender. | |
| Belarus Biofuel Plants to Start Operation This Year | Two plants that will make environmentally friendly fuel from plants are to start operation in Babruysk, Mahilyow region, and Hrodna this year, Vasil Pawlowski, deputy minister of agriculture, told reporters in Minsk on Wednesday.
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| Biomass Co-firing in Europe - Conference | On behalf of the Integrated European Network for Biomass Co-firing (NETBIOCOF), you are invited to join us at the International Conference in Biomass Co-firing in Europe. This event will be held on July 2-4, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.
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| Serbian/Belarus Rapeseed Production Venture Possible | Last week a delegation of Serbian businessmen visited Belarus. The businessmen are willing to set up a rape production enterprise in Mogilev region. This plant is used by the food industry and for the biofuel production. The businessmen plan to sow rape on more than 10,000 hectares of land and to build processing facilities. | |