In Denmark, the national government has just decided on the 0,9% blending mandate for use of advanced biofuels made from waste materials, i.e. straw. The mandate is to be effective by 2020 and will be applied to the transportation sector of Denmark. “This is an ambitious and progressive decision taken today by the Danish government,” […]
In South Africa, the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has approved four NexSteppe sorghum hybrids for commercial sale in country. Approved hybrids include both Malibu sweet sorghum and Palo Alto biomass sorghum hybrids. Two out of three people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity. A major focus of this year’s U.N. […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that “the tight rapeseed supply situation in the UK sent local spot market prices soaring. At the same time, lower availability markedly curbed shipments abroad.” The small 2016 rapeseed harvest in the UK, which was down 30 per cent from the previous year, has had noticeable effect. The tight supply situation […]
In France, ADEME has validated key step 3 of Deinove’s DEINOCHEM program, dedicated to the bio-based production of carotenoids and financed by ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) under the “Investissements d’Avenir” (Investments for the Future) program. This new key milestone validates the technical progress made in developing the carotenoid production process. The target […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 1.040 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 43.68 million gallons daily. That is up 17,000 b/d from the week before and an all-time record weekly total. The four-week average for ethanol production posted a 15-week high of 1.022 million b/d […]
In California, Pacific Ethanol announced agreements to refinance its term debt that was due in September and solidify its relationship with Aurora Cooperative Elevator Company (ACE) at its Aurora plants. Pacific Ethanol entered into an agreement to refinance its $155.1mn in principal term debt, due September 2017. The refinancing will reduce total debt outstanding by […]
In Washington, a survey released by the national trade association representing truckstops and travel plazas, the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, and the National Association of Convenience Stores found that majority of American voters believe that shifting the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standar from refiners to wholesalers and fuel retailers […]
News has arrived from Denver (the company) and the UK (the project and partners) that SynTech Bioenergy will build what it terms “a revolutionary clean-energy plant in the United Kingdom capable of carbon negative operation.” Carbon negative – what’s that? Carbon negative generally means that some of the resulting carbon is sequestered — possibly in […]
Take-aways from Rana Foroohar’s Article Titled “Saving Capitalism” (Time Magazine, May 23, 2016) and her book titled ”Makers and Takers, The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business”. By Tim Sklar, A Concerned Project Development and Project Finance Professional Special to The Digest Background Over the last thirty years my firm Sklar and […]
Every airline has pilots, but then there’s the Chief Pilot, and in the advanced bioeconomy the chief pilot is known by the ungainly acronym ABPDU, which might as well decode as “All Bioeconomy Processes Developed Upstairs,” but actually stands for the far more modest “Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit.” It’s run out of the Berkeley […]
