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Competitive Edge: Hydragas Energy

Competitive Edge: Hydragas Energy

May 28, 2020 |

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? We founded Hydragas to develop a renewable gas recovery technology, to supply clean energy at country-scale. The roots of the […]

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Australia’s Efforts to Support Renewables: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Accelerating Large-Scale Renewable Energy

Australia’s Efforts to Support Renewables: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Accelerating Large-Scale Renewable Energy

May 28, 2020 |

The Business Renewables Centre – Australia and project partners like WWF, ARENA, Rocky Mountain Institute and others are working on getting Australia to use more large-scale renewable energy and using Power Purchase Agreements to get there. But why a renewable energy PPA? How are corporate PPAs an important segment in a diversified market? Where are the […]

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Q&A on Cellulosic Ethanol with Clariant

Q&A on Cellulosic Ethanol with Clariant

May 27, 2020 |

DigestConnect hosted a wildly popular webinar in late April with Clariant’s Head of Business Line, Biofuels & Derivatives at Clariant but there were so many fantastic audience questions we didn’t to, that we decided to follow up and put together The Digest’s Q&A with Clariant on the latest and greatest about cellulosic ethanol. In today’s […]

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Q1 Revenue of $2.4M, Uses Cash, Suspends 2020 Predictions: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt’s Q1 and COVID-19 Impact

Q1 Revenue of $2.4M, Uses Cash, Suspends 2020 Predictions: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Calyxt’s Q1 and COVID-19 Impact

May 27, 2020 |

Suspended. Reminiscint of the ‘bad kid’ at school who was always getting in trouble, we are hearing the word ‘suspended’ over and over again in 2020. Calyxt isn’t any different. In their Q1 2020 investor call, they shared the latest financials and ‘suspended’ 2020 predictions. Check out this slide guide including commentary from their CEO, Jim Blome, […]

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Agricultural & Energy DigestData Dashboard for May 2020: Resilience, Crops, Economy, Energy

Agricultural & Energy DigestData Dashboard for May 2020: Resilience, Crops, Economy, Energy

May 26, 2020 |

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Hydrogen is Hot in Australia! ARENA’s Funding for Hydrogen Continues: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Hydrogen Deployment

Hydrogen is Hot in Australia! ARENA’s Funding for Hydrogen Continues: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Hydrogen Deployment

May 26, 2020 |

Australian Renewable Energy Agency, or ARENA, has invested $1.48 billion in 513 projects since 2012, and of those approximately $50 million are across 28 hydrogen projects. A pathway to a renewable hydrogen industry has many benefits but there are still several key issues like barriers to large scale deployment, demand drivers that are still evolving, and […]

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3 Things that Need to Happen for Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Take Off

3 Things that Need to Happen for Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Take Off

May 25, 2020 |

By Lloyd Ritter, Esq., Director, Green Capitol LLC Special to The Digest A timely new report came out recently on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), “Ready for Takeoff: Aviation Biofuels Past, Present, and Future,” written by the Atlantic Council (herein AC).  The key takeaways are three-fold. First, aviation emissions are one of the most recognizable sources […]

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Strong Q1 but 2020 Outlook Suspended: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes’s Latest Results, Equity Story

Strong Q1 but 2020 Outlook Suspended: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes’s Latest Results, Equity Story

May 25, 2020 |

COVID-19 has put the world on hold and Novozymes is no different in terms of suspending their 2020 outlook. Why? Because none of us have a crystal ball and how can you predict the future now, especially concerning U.S. ethanol demand and stockpiling effects? Novozymes is an agile organization, however, and was able to meet demand despite […]

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BD Zones and BDO Zones: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Weaponizing Biomass for a Bio-fueled Recovery

BD Zones and BDO Zones: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Weaponizing Biomass for a Bio-fueled Recovery

May 24, 2020 |

If you missed last week’s DigestConnect webinar, you can catch up on what exactly a Bioeconomy Development (BD) Zone is vs. a Bioeconomy Development Opportunity (BDO) Zone and why you should care about both. Think about a certified investment-ready industrial site program but to drive bioeconomy development – a BD Zone – and what it can mean […]

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Wearing Sustainability and Innovation on Your Sleeve: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Emerging Materials for Apparel

Wearing Sustainability and Innovation on Your Sleeve: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Emerging Materials for Apparel

May 21, 2020 |

With some places starting to open up again, maybe you are looking at shopping for clothes – thanks to some quarantine weight gain or weight lost – so let’s talk about some new threads today. What are the latest innovations with apparel materials? We’ve read about mushroom shirts and algae dresses, but here’s a quick summary from […]

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