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Status of Jatropha in Europe

Belgium

• Finnish engineering firm Wärtsilä announced it had clinched an $11m deal to build the world's first engine-driven combined heat power and power (CHP) plant, designed to run off crude Jatropha oil. The plant, costing approximately $11m, will be located in an agricultural area of Belgium, the company said. It will be owned by GreenpowerNV, a joint venture set up by sustainable energy firm Thernergo, four local agricultural companies and a private investor. - (Apr 2008)

 

Germany

• Daimler has joined forces with Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Bayer CropScience for the cultivation of the biodiesel raw material Jatropha in the south of India; the seedlings for the first 100 hectares (250 acres) have been planted. The company is supporting several village communities in the state of Tamil Nadu with funds and expertise from its already successfully completed research projects. (Feb 2010).

Finland

• Finnish oil Major Neste Oil, in which the government ofFinlandholds a majority stake, is looking into using Jatropha oil as a feedstock for its innovative second generation biodiesel. (Apr 2007).
• According to the Finnish engineering company Wartsila, the world's first ever heat and power plant fuelled by Jatropha oil will be in operation inBelgiumby early 2009. The 9-MW plant costing €7 million would be built by Wartsila in the Belgian Merksplas farming region. It will be owned by a joint venture between sustainable energy developer Thenargo and local agricultural companies.(Aug 2008)

 

United Kingdom

• D1 Oils plc is a leading biofuels technology company based in UK. D1-BP's key areas of operation are Southern Africa,Indiaand South East Asia.Up to31 March 2008; D1-BP Fuel Crops has planted or obtained rights to offtake from a total of 192,016 hectares of Jatropha worldwide. Planting is concentrated in Southern Africa, India andSouth East Asia.
• De-Ord Fuel opened a new 100,000 GPY biodiesel facility in Mansfieldthat will use Jatropha and waste vegetable oil as feedstocks. The $550,000 project is one of the first of a wave of micro-facilities that will utilize sustainable feedstocks in Europe. (Jul 2008)
• A factory to process Jatropha biofuel is due to be set up next year in the Gondola district of Mozambique’s Manica province by the British company Sun Biofuels. The company had planted 1,000 hectares of Jatropha since 2006, which is a fifth of the total it has in the area, at an investment of US$4.5 million. The Sun Biofuels factory expects to produce just over 20,000 litres of biofuel per year based on production at Gondola before expanding the project to Machaze where it plans to open up a 2,000 hectare Jatropha plantation.(Oct 2009)

 

Ireland

• Integrated Biodiesel Industries of Brazil said that it has acquired a 10 percent stake in Ireland’s South Cone Agriculture, a developer of Jatropha plantations. IBI, which will have a total production capacity of 135,000 tonnes by the end of 2008 from its plants in Argentina, said that it sought to develop alternative feedstocks to soy oil. (Jul 2008)

 

Switzerland

• The company, Green Bio Fuel, has received permission from authorities in canton Aargau to build a factory that could generate enough biodiesel to help Switzerland meet its target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to ten per cent of 1990 levels. Green Bio Fuel says the diesel will be produced solely from the oil squeezed out of Jatropha seeds imported from Mozambique. The facility will have the capacity to produce 130 million litres of biodiesel a year, which amounts to five per cent of Switzerland’s current demand for diesel fuel. (Jan 2010)