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UH and Pacific Biodiesel Research Partnership

UH, Pacific Biodiesel to Partner for Restaurant Grease Trap Research MANOA—The University of Hawaii at Mānoa and Pacific Biodiesel Inc. have signed an agreement to collaborate in finding pathways for [...]

August 2011 Eco-Customer of the Month

Stephan Reeve of Kīpahulu, Maui has been named Pacific Biodiesel’s EcoCustomer of the Month for August and September. Steph has been a Pacific Biodiesel customer for more than 10 years, [...]

Biodiesel Industry Fueling Job Creation

NBB: Biodiesel Industry Producing Record Volumes and Fueling Job Creation Washington—U.S. biodiesel production reached a new monthly high of 81 million gallons in June, according to the latest EPA statistics, [...]

Maui Finalists Selected for APEC Showcase

The APEC Hawaii Host Committee announced the selection of 35 Hawai‘i businesses for the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase, including six finalists from Maui County. Among the six finalists [...]

April 2012 Environmental Champion

Jeff Mikulina has been named as the first Pacific Biodiesel Environmental Champion of 2012. Jeff’s commitment to the environment is a lifestyle. From his professional endeavors to his personal goals, [...]

Willie Nelson Honored as Planet Defender

Rock the Earth, a national not-for-profit environmental organization that partners with the music industry, announced the winners of its Seventh-Annual Planet Defender Awards this week. Longtime environmentalist and Music Icon [...]

PB Texas Partner voted into Hall of Fame

Pacific Biodiesel Texas Partner Coach Don Nelson will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. There will be no shortage of Golden State Warriors represented in the Naismith Memorial [...]

SBA Board Member meets with the President

White House “Champion of Change” Alum and SBA Founding Board Member Michael Bowman Meets with President Obama WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, April 26th, Michael Bowman was one of twelve [...]

Big Island Biodiesel Preps for Opening

SHIPMAN BUSINESS PARK — The recent history of biofuel development on the Big Island has been a discouraging one. A handful of startups were announced with great fanfare in recent [...]

Big Island Biodiesel Grand Opening July 2nd

On July 2nd Big Island Biodiesel, located near Keaau, opened its doors for investors to tour the $12 million plant that in a few months will begin turning fuel crops [...]

September 2012 Newsletter

In this month’s newsletter: PB Fuel Meets New Premium Quality Standard Jenna Long wins SMEI Award Maui Disposal Sets Green Standard Got Diesel? Get Biodiesel! New Faces at Pacific Biodiesel [...]

A Pono Biofuels Agriculture Plan for Maui

Imagine for a moment this reality: a Maui County that grows a significant portion of its own fuel in a sustainable, soil-preserving, crop-rotating fashion. Multiple crops are raised to create [...]

Oahu Transit Service Utilizing B20

Oahu’s Transit System Using B20 In Partnership With Honolulu Clean Cities Honolulu Clean Cities (HCC), a private non-profit organization dedicated to reducing petroleum consumption in transportation, announced Oct. 25 that [...]

Biochar Trial With PacBio Project On Oahu

Biochar Trial in Kunia with Pacific Biodiesel Technologies’ Hawaii Military Biofuels Crop (HMBC) Project The first field trial with our biochar product on Oahu has yielded some very interesting results. [...]

Pacific Biodiesel Fuel to Run HECO Plant

State regulators have approved a multiyear contract for Maui-based Pacific Biodiesel to supply Hawaiian Electric Co. with 250,000 gallons a year of locally produced biodiesel. To read the entire article [...]

FET Tax Credit Reinstated

Congress votes to reinstate $1 per gallon biodiesel tax incentive The U.S. biodiesel industry applauded Tuesday as the U.S. House cleared a year-end fiscal package that reinstates the biodiesel tax [...]

PacBio Cheers Tax Credit Extension

Pacific Biodiesel Cheers Extension of Renewable Energy Tax Credit Hawaii’s lone commercial producer of biodiesel says it won’t have to raise its prices for the alternative fuel thanks to the [...]

Military Drives Alternative Energy in Hawaii

The Pentagon is investing billions in alternative energy and conservation, and that’s good news for local companies. It’s good news for hawaii’s economy and local aspirations when the state’s goals [...]

Zero Waste and Plant Optimization

When Pacific Biodiesel Technologies’ Big Island Biodiesel refinery came online last year, it was marketed as a state-of-the-art, zero-waste plant. The facility, scaled at 16,000 gallons a day, was Hawaii’s [...]

BIB Names Plant Operations Manager

Big Island Biodiesel announced that John G. Griffith has been named plant operations manager for the biodiesel processing facility in Keaau. Griffith, a Maui local returning to Hawaii after 30 [...]

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