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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Opal Fuels

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Opal Fuels

September 29, 2022 |

Opal is an end-to-end RNG provider to the transportation market, currently at Scale, with substantial embedded growth opportunity. The company has 5 operating RNG & 19 renewable power plants, operates 75 stations across 18 states, has 7 projects under construction, and 15 projects in development. CEO Adam Comora recently shared this company overview with investors and stakeholders.

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The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Much More Modest Challenge Roadmap

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Much More Modest Challenge Roadmap

September 29, 2022 |

As the authors of an impressive 126-page study on a Sustainable Aviation Fuels Roadmap that leads the Digest coverage today note in their opening remarks: “The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of […]

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The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge Roadmap

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge Roadmap

September 29, 2022 |

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of domestic sustainable aviation fuel production that achieve a minimum of a 50% reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) compared to conventional fuel […]

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Sorting It Out: Fashion for Good, Circle Economy say we can recirculate 74% of clothing fiber back into the supply-chain

Sorting It Out: Fashion for Good, Circle Economy say we can recirculate 74% of clothing fiber back into the supply-chain

September 29, 2022 |

From the Netherlands comes news that the Sorting for Circularity Europe project has released its report after 16 months in their conclave. The white smoke has emerged from the chimney, habemus papam, and the news is that 74% of low-value, post-consumer textiles is readily available for fibre-to-fibre recycling in six European countries. That’s a total […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Electrocatalytic CO2 Utilization

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Electrocatalytic CO2 Utilization

September 28, 2022 |

CO2 is the ubiquitous feedstock, available from a range of point sources, as well as in the atmosphere. It’s the only feedstock measured in gigatons. Domestic biorefineries emit a very pure CO2 wastestream, and represent an early opportunity for deployment of CO2 utilization technologies. But how do we use it? NREL’s Jack Ferrell leads a […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Next Generation Miscanthus

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Next Generation Miscanthus

September 28, 2022 |

The overall goal of this project is to evaluate performance of new miscanthus varieties and improved sustainability within the overall miscanthus biomass supply chain. Specifically, to identify energy crop production that is dependable, high-yielding, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable. Also, provide empirical data on yieldsand environmental effectsof bioenergy crops associated with different geographic locations, soil types […]

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MetGen’s Acceleration: A hat-trick of deals put the lignin pioneer on a new trajectory

MetGen’s Acceleration: A hat-trick of deals put the lignin pioneer on a new trajectory

September 28, 2022 |

From MetGen in Finland comes not one story but three, a hat-trick. First, a commercial license for biorefineries with Futurity in New Zealand; second, a partnership with Ivy Farms to develop an industrial process for bioactive molecules they use in their cultivated meat technology; third, a partnership with Technip Energies for the industrialization of MetGen’s […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of RNG and Biogas

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of RNG and Biogas

September 27, 2022 |

Methane! We’ve been shouting it from the rooftops for some time — methane is the future! Made from dairy waste and municipal solid waste, primarily, it’s become the fastest route to carbon jitigation because all that potential methane avoids the atmosphere and insteads finds applications in heat, power and ultimately for chemistry and liquid fuels […]

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Fulcrum’s near, Ensyn’s back: Hopeful Hours in the Big Heavy

Fulcrum’s near, Ensyn’s back: Hopeful Hours in the Big Heavy

September 27, 2022 |

If the bioeconomy were a galaxy and the heavy-duty fuels were the constellation Big Heavy, two of the brightest and longest-lived stars would be Fulcrum BioEnergy and Ensyn Fuels. Of late, attention has been steering towards newcomers such as Alder Fuels, T2C Energy, and a host of new projects getting off the ground — DG […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals

September 26, 2022 |

Policymakers and energy security hawks love fuel, but consumers love renewable chemicals that power the everyday applications in their lives — resins, solvents, nutraceuticals, intermediates to make fabrics, nylons, plastics, and more. There’s a dizzying array of candidates — hydrogen for chemistry, methanol ammonia, PLA, PHA, ethanol, ethylene, MEG, ethyl acetate, BDO, PEG, the four-carbon […]

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