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2009 Winners Announced at Brussels Conference

Brussels 17 March 2009 – Embargoed until 18.00 CET

The winners of the first Sustainable Biofuels Awards were announced today at the World Biofuels Markets conference and exhibition in Brussels.

SEKAB, Argent Energy and PetroAlgae were delighted to pick up the prizes amid fierce competition from industry players.

“The Sustainable Biofuels Awards have been developed to help promote the considerable benefits of biofuels production and to encourage greater focus on sustainability criteria right throughout the biofuels value chain,” said Green Power Conferences event director Nadim Chaudhry.

In its inaugural year, three awards were given out with a shortlist of three per category chosen from nominations and recommendations. The judging panel voted independently on who they felt has provided the greatest sustainability benefits, as measured by GHG savings, environmental impact and further societal benefits of the operations or technology of the nominees.

And the winners are...

1) Sustainable Bioethanol Award – for a distributor or producer

Nominees

SEKAB (award collected by Per Carstedt)
Greenergy International
Ineos Bio

2) Sustainable Biodiesel Award – for a distributor or producer
Nominees

Argent Energy (award collected by Dickon Posnett)
Neste Oil
Mabanaft

3) Sustainable Biofuels Technology – for a technology supplier
Nominees

PetroAlgae (award collected by Fred Tennant)
Praj Industries
Institute of New Energy, Tsinghua University

Voting Panel:
Jeff McNeely, Chief Scientist, IUCN
Uwe Fritsche, Oeko Institute
Suzanne Hunt, Hunt Green LLC
Charlotte Opal, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Sebastien Hayes, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Nicole Denis, McKinsey
Sandrine Dixson Decleve, IFQC