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U.K. Invests In Biofuels Firms

by Melody M. Bomgardner
September 14, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 36

The U.K. Department for Transport has awarded $38 million to three British companies pursuing the manufacture of biofuels from diverse types of waste. Celtic Renewables received $17 million to fund a plant to make biofuels from whisky by-products. Advanced Plasma Power was awarded $17 million to develop fuels from household waste. And Nova Pangaea Technologies received $4 million to help it make fuels from forestry waste. The funding, provided over three years, will help the three plants produce a combined 800,000 gal of biofuels per year.

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