{"id":1568,"date":"2013-08-05T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2018-05-02T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:17:05","slug":"agreement-signed-to-conduct-detailed-feasibility-study-for-a-commercial-2nd-gen-ethanol-plant-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/agreement-signed-to-conduct-detailed-feasibility-study-for-a-commercial-2nd-gen-ethanol-plant-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement signed to assess feasibility of commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Malaysia-Vector-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1570\" title=\"Malaysia-Vector-Map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Malaysia-Vector-Map-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Malaysia-Vector-Map-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Malaysia-Vector-Map-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Malaysia-Vector-Map-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on August 2<sup>nd<\/sup> between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockleegroup.com.my\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hock Lee Group<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betarenewables.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beta Renewables<\/a> to develop a feasibility study for a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>The MoU was announced by Agensi Inovasi Malaysia and is in line with the government\u2019s vision for biomass owners to be involved in downstream high-value activities through forging smart partnerships, rather than selling their biomass resources as a commodity.<\/p>\n<p>Suitable locations have been identified in the area of Bintulu, where the plant might become a catalyst for a biomass-based industry cluster to produce fuel, energy and bio-based chemicals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/Business\/Business-News\/2013\/08\/02\/Malaysia-eyes-regions-first-commercial-biomass-ethanol-plant.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on August 2nd between Hock Lee Group and Beta Renewables to develop a feasibility study for a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Malaysia. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}