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Beat Crude with Altitude: Why Cascadia Needs a Place Where SAF Risk Can Clear

Beat Crude with Altitude: Why Cascadia Needs a Place Where SAF Risk Can Clear

January 6, 2026 |

Editor’s Note: This is part II of a four-part series on the Cascadia Sustainable Aviation Accelerator and opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. Part I is here: Notes from Peanut Butter Lake: Why SAF Is Moving Slower Than It Should — and What Cascadia Teaches Us About Real Take-Off. Part III is here: Speed, Baby, Speed: […]

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The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenBridgeLLC

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenBridgeLLC

January 5, 2026 |

GreenBridgeLLC focuses on bridging the gap between clean-technology innovation and commercial success, specifically targeting sectors like SAF, plastic circularity, and decarbonization. President Poornima Sharma emphasizes that the “Scale-up stage” is the toughest hurdle, where the scale-up factor becomes a critical variable for managing enterprise risk. The sources outline strategic pathways such as “Build, Own and […]

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Notes from Peanut Butter Lake: Why SAF Is Moving Slower Than It Should — and What Cascadia Teaches Us About Real Take-Off

Notes from Peanut Butter Lake: Why SAF Is Moving Slower Than It Should — and What Cascadia Teaches Us About Real Take-Off

January 5, 2026 |

Editor’s Note: This is part I of a four-part series on the Cascadia Sustainable Aviation Accelerator and opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. Part II is here:Beat Crude with Altitude: Why Cascadia Needs a Place Where SAF Risk Can Clear.  Part III is here: Speed, Baby, Speed: How Washington State’s Cascadia Accelerator Turned a Launch into […]

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The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to U.S. Energy Policy

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to U.S. Energy Policy

January 1, 2026 |

LEC Partners in this presentation navigates the “America First” energy transition, focusing on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and Executive Order 14154. They specialize in de-risking investments, recently identifying $2.8M in necessary upgrades during a bioenergy acquisition to restore credit eligibility. Data-centric modeling for a lumber company yielded a 25% ROI improvement by […]

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Selling the Oomph, Not the Oil: Aemetis, XCF, and the Invisible Value Shift That Will Define Renewables in 2026

Selling the Oomph, Not the Oil: Aemetis, XCF, and the Invisible Value Shift That Will Define Renewables in 2026

January 1, 2026 |

Hollywood figured this out a century ago. They don’t sell celluloid — they sell star power. If you have an established icon like Clara Bow, you sell It: allure, magnetism, and the special sparkle that turns a performer into a phenomenon. If you have a rising force like Ann Sheridan, you sell Oomph: that impossible-to-bottle […]

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The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Topsoe and NXT Clean Fuels

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Topsoe and NXT Clean Fuels

December 31, 2025 |

Topsoe leads the HEFA market with 22 operating licensed units and 45 more in engineering. Their collaboration with NXT Clean Fuels aims for a world-scale complex in Oregon, targeting an ultra-low CI of 10.1 g C/MJ2. The project plans to produce 540 million GPY of fuel, comprised of 55.8% SAF. Integration of the H2Bridge™ ensures […]

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The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Yilkins and Swirl Carbonization

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Yilkins and Swirl Carbonization

December 30, 2025 |

Dutch company Yilkins leverages swirl fluidized bed technology for drying and carbonizing over 100 biomass residues. Their skid-based units scale from 0.25 to 14 tons per hour. With a 600M€ project backlog, Yilkins ensures bankability through performance warranty backstop insurance and financial guarantees from Rabobank. Key global partners include Shell, ThyssenKrupp, and Reliance, where they […]

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Cut Me Some Slack: What I learned about the bioeconomy from Cal–Stanford and “The Play”

Cut Me Some Slack: What I learned about the bioeconomy from Cal–Stanford and “The Play”

December 30, 2025 |

November 20, 1982. The Play. Four seconds left. Stanford has the lead. The entire 1980s college era of order and structure says: Game over. The formality of a final Stanford squib kickoff comes. Then, Cal comes alive. A lateral keeps the game alive. Then another, and it looks like the player’s downed — Stanford players […]

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Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2026

Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2026

December 29, 2025 |

In Florida, the Daily Digest today released its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 65 countries. Get the latest up to the minute new information on the New Mexico and Canada Clean Fuels Standard as well as a section on SAF mandates in […]

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The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Hexas and XanoFiber

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Hexas and XanoFiber

December 29, 2025 |

Hexas accelerates biomass aggregation using XanoGrass, yielding 200 tons of XanoFiber™ from just 8 acres. This land-use efficiency is vital, as 2023 median farm income was –900 while 2025 corn losses are projected at 160 per acre. National survey data shows 37% of agricultural stakeholders strongly agree they are excited about bioenergy crops. Hexas’ Farm-to-Fiber […]

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