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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Energy & Climate Action

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Energy & Climate Action

December 18, 2023 |

The Inflation Reduction Act provides nearly $40 billion for USDA over the next 10 years to improve life and livelihoods in rural communities. Specific investments include: $19.3 billion for climate-smart agriculture on farms, ranches, and forests; $13.4 billion to lower costs for families and support goodpaying clean energy jobs in rural communities; and $5 billion […]

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India on the Move:  the subcontinent is buzzing with mobility, and poised to assume leadership of the global bioeconomy

India on the Move: the subcontinent is buzzing with mobility, and poised to assume leadership of the global bioeconomy

December 18, 2023 |

Part 1 of a Digest series on India’s projects, progress and emerging bioeconomy leadership. By car, motorcycle, auto-rickshaw, truck, tractor, bus, train, camel, elephant, or on foot, India is on the move. From the effervescent hornblowing of the traffic that pours through its cities and interconnecting highways like a hot magma, to the trumpets of […]

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GREET is in for SAF: Santa comes early for the bioeconomy

GREET is in for SAF: Santa comes early for the bioeconomy

December 15, 2023 |

In Washington, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released guidance on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act, and said that pending further guidance from the Treasury Department, an updated GREET model will provide another methodology for SAF producers to determine the lifecycle GHG emissions rates of their […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Redding Rancheria Hydrogen 2 Energy

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Redding Rancheria Hydrogen 2 Energy

December 14, 2023 |

The Tule River Tribe’s subsidiary Redding Rancheria is building a facility to produce over 10,000 kg of hydrogen per day from completely renewable sources. The Tribe is licensing the technology from H2 Energy Group, an experienced hydrogen producer. RREDCO CEO Jeremy Hayward presented these slides at ABLC Next 2023 on the company’s projects and progress.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Whitefox

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Whitefox

December 13, 2023 |

Whitefox has been active over the past couple of months highlighting the opportunity for ethanol in the global bioeconomy via their “Ethanol as a Building Block” campaign, which was kicked off at the ABLC in San Francisco this year through CEO Gillian Harrison’s presentation here, which was followed up a week later with a webinar […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

December 12, 2023 |

Gevo addresses the market need of reducing greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable alternatives, and is commercializing the next generation of advanced, bio-based renewable fuels with sustainable aviation fuel, renewable premium gasoline, and renewable natural gas that have the potential to achieve zero carbon emissions over the lifecycle of the fuel. To make its energy-dense liquid […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

December 11, 2023 |

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2021 sales of $31 billion (€26 billion). The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications such as hydrogen for clean fuels. Linde also […]

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From Patent to Progress: How Myron Danzer and Iowa-based Chevron Renewable Energy Group continue forging new paths in the biofuels industry

From Patent to Progress: How Myron Danzer and Iowa-based Chevron Renewable Energy Group continue forging new paths in the biofuels industry

December 10, 2023 |

From IowaEDA.com Special to The Digest As an inventor on an early patent for producing biodiesel, one might think that Myron Danzer’s contribution to the industry was enough innovation to last an entire career. But, like many of his fellow Iowans, Danzer wasn’t content to rest on that accomplishment alone. After 16 years with the […]

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Fire! Open Letter to US Treasury, Energy Secretaries on addressing the threat of forest fire via the bioeconomy

Fire! Open Letter to US Treasury, Energy Secretaries on addressing the threat of forest fire via the bioeconomy

December 9, 2023 |

In the long term, the bioeconomy needs hydrocarbon feedstocks at 28 cents a pound or less — that’s not the raw cost of the biomass, that’s the finished cost of the hydrocarbons after excess oxygen has been blown off and the solids have been converted into workable, homogenous condition and possibly into liquids or gases. […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Iogen

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Iogen

December 7, 2023 |

You may know iogen as the cellulosic ethanol tech and biofuel company, but did you know they are now deploying low-carbon hydrogen? Check out this slide guide from ABLC NEXT 2023 in San Francisco from CEO Brian Foody on net zero fuels and biomass-based fuels, which ones they think have the most promise and why, […]

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