New Zealand
From BioenergyWiki
Bioenergy > Regions > Oceania & Pacific > New Zealand
| This page needs work! | ||
| You can help us by editing this page: add information, links, images or make other changes! This is your wiki, too! | ||
| |
| Population: | 4,115,771 (July 2007 est.)[1] |
|---|---|
| GDP (PPP): | $106 billion (2006 est.)[1] |
| Petroleum – consumption – imports: – Gasoline to diesel ratio: | 150,600 bbl/day (2004)[1] 119,700 bbl/day (2001)[1] ??? |
| Electricity – consumption – Main sources: | 38.22 billion kWh (2004)[1] ??? |
| Renewable energy targets: | 30 PJ of added capacity (including heat and transport fuels) by 2012.[2] |
| Ethanol – production: – target: – feedstocks: | ??? ??? ??? |
| Biodiesel – production: – target – feedstocks: | ??? ??? ??? |
Information about bioenergy in New Zealand.
Contents |
Events
News
- Success of Palm Oil Brings Plantations Under Pressure to Preserve Habitats , 17 September 2009 by New York Times: Each year, the oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia "produce millions of tons of palm oil, which has soared in popularity since the 1970s and is now found in foods like margarine, potato chips and chocolate, as well as in soap, cosmetics and biofuel."
- "But the palm plantations are in the cross hairs of consumer groups and corporations in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United States. Echoing the longstanding concerns of environmental groups, they say palm oil producers continue to fell large tracts of forest to make way for plantations, destroying habitat for endangered species like the orangutan."[1]
- Carbon Gas Is Explored as a Source of Ethanol, 24 April 2007 from the New York Times. A New Zealand company has recieved financing from Vinod Khosla to commercialize a technology to produce ethanol from carbon monoxide gas (CO). Bacteria consume the gas and produce ethanol. Carbon monoxide is produced as a by-product of many industrial processes, including steel production.
- NZ firm makes bio-diesel from sewage in world first. Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic yesterday announced it had produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds.
Issues
Organizations
Governmental organizations
Nongovernmental organizations
Companies
- Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation - A New Zealand based company that is the first to harvest wild algae (from waste-water treatment plants) for biodiesel production.
- LanzaTech - Developing "an ethanol production process that can be retrofitted to industrial facilities to generate ethanol from the carbon monoxide component of waste flue gases."[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nz.html
- ↑ REN21 Renewables Global Status Report 2005 p. 20
| New Zealand | edit | |
| Oceania & Pacific | edit | |
| Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu | ||
| Regions | edit | |
| Africa | Asia | Europe | Latin America and the Caribbean | Middle East | North America | Oceania & Pacific See also: International cooperation | International organizations | ||
 Navigation
| ||
| What is bioenergy? | Benefits/Risks | Who is doing what? Events | Glossary | News | Organizations | Publications | Regions | Technologies/Feedstocks | Policy | Timeline | Voices | ||
