In Switzerland, Evolva has convened and extraordinary general meeting for 21 December 2023 to approve the sale of Evolva AG to Lallemand Inc. Evolva Holding announced on 21 November 2023 that it signed a share purchase agreement with Danstar Ferment AG, a Swiss affiliate of Lallemand Inc., a global leader in the development, production, and marketing […]
In the UK, Topsoe and Standard Gas have signed a MoU to collaborate on a UK-based project to produce renewable natural gas and methanol from residual waste feedstocks. Topsoe will supply its proprietary technologies, including its methanation and methanol technologies, for the project, which will either be owned and operated by Standard Gas or licensed […]
In Illinois, a new report from GTI Energy, Designs for Net-Zero Energy Systems: Meta-Analysis of U.S. Economy-Wide Decarbonization Studies presents a comparison of five comprehensive U.S. net-zero studies revealing a wide range of possibilities and key commonalities for achieving net-zero emissions. The Meta NZ report examines five in-depth studies that modeled designs for net-zero energy systems […]
In the UK, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has been awarded an engineering package by Alfanar to support the development of the Lighthouse Green Fuels project located in Teesside, UK. The Lighthouse Green Fuels project is one of the first projects underway in the UK aiming to convert biogenic and non-biogenic solid wastes and residues […]
In Utah, the BDO Zone Initiative has issued a BDO Zone ‘A’ rating for Summit County, Utah for 100,000 bone-dried metric tons per year of woody biomass. The prestigious ‘A’ rating indicates ‘high quality’ feedstock supply chains and infrastructure, attributed to minimal competition for pulpwood and forest residue, combined with an anticipated additional supply from […]
In Texas, the team at S&P posted an interesting analysis on the Cellulosic Waiver Credit and D3 RINs, noting that “Due to an anomaly in the Renewable Fuel Standard, CWCs may be purchased for the 2022 compliance year, but not for 2023” and that “unless the EPA attempts to reduce the 2023 cellulosic biofuel RVOs […]
In Washington, the Engine Technology Forum stated in a post that “The possibility for a new energy economy built on renewable electric power and new fuels like hydrogen holds equally great potential and uncertainty of success. There is an increasing, and shared, recognition that such a shift to a new energy economy will be uneven […]
DG Fuels is an emerging leader in renewable hydrogen and biogenic based, synthetic low emissions aviation and diesel fuel, and this deck looks at their second-generation cellulosic biofuel and their market expansion plans, whose hydrogen content is derived from water electrolysis and uses a Fischer Tropsch based process with 96% carbon feedstock conversion efficiency and […]
In California. a study by Cleantech Group finds that a favorable policy environment and $80 – $300B of investment will be required to build the global low-carbon hydrogen economy by 2030. Demand increases are estimated to reach 150 Mt by 2030 and 520 Mt in 2050. The Cleantech group report found that low-carbon hydrogen costs […]
In California, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors, upon a 4 to 0 vote, approved the California Environmental Quality Act analysis for Aemetis Biogas LLC to extend its biogas pipeline by an additional 24 miles using the public right of way. The pipeline transports biogas from dairy digesters to a centralized renewable natural gas upgrading […]
