In Madagascar, Clean Cooking Madagascar, an NGO based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, is seeking proposals for an ethanol micro distillery for its national Ethanol Stove Program in Madagascar. CCM plans to create a market for 100,000 ethanol cookstoves over five years. It will develop local ethanol supply chains in part through the installation of ethanol micro […]
In the Netherlands, the European Commission awarded a grant to DuPont Industrial Biosciences to demonstrate high-efficiency enzyme production to increase biogas yields as part of the DEMETER project, funded from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. Enzyme technology has been proven to improve biogas yields […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that an “unexpected lowering of the harvest forecast for US soy and continued concerns about rain damage in Argentina has caused the balance between supply and demand to narrow.” According to the most recent 2016/17 USDA report, world soybean production is set to grow further, rising by just under 6 per […]
In the UK, Velocys and ThermoChem Recovery International signed a strategic alliance under which TRI will be Velocys’ preferred supplier of gasification systems for its biomass-to-liquids plants. The agreement will see the alliance partners rapidly deploy an integrated biorefinery offering that combines Velocys’ Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology with TRI’s proven gasification technology. The partners have already […]
In Washington, the states of Kansas and Nebraska joined the Urban Air Initiative (UAI) and the Energy Future Coalition as they petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to correct the agency’s flawed models that limit the use of higher blends of ethanol. According to UAI representatives, for years, the EPA has published inaccurate data claiming […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 1.051 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.14 million gallons daily. That is down slightly by 3,000 b/d from the previous week’s all-time record high and the 13th straight week over 1 million b/d. The four-week average for ethanol production […]
In Washington, 133 organizations and companies from the food and agriculture sector, representing more than 15 million jobs nationally, sent President Donald J. Trump a letter this week expressing their eagerness to work with his Administration to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement while preserving and expanding the gains achieved to date. “U.S. food […]
In the UK, the national government has published a Green Paper on ‘Building Our Industrial Strategy’ and the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association said it will be setting out over the next few months how AD can play a central role in helping UK industry to flourish. The Association said that “In return for long-term […]
In Germany, in new report “Bio-based economy and climate change,” scientists found “a clear link between bio-based economy and sustainability as well as green economy.” This new paper by nova-Institute, prepared for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), examines the relationship between the bio-based economy and climate change. The report gives a comprehensive overview […]
Among biodiesel’s amazing growth stats is word from LMC International that the 2.1 billion gallons of biodiesel and renewable diesel used by Americans in 2015 supported $8.4 billion in economic impact across a wide variety of economic sectors. But here was the weird news. There were 47,400 jobs. It reminds us of a trend in […]
