West Coast renewable fuel retailer says the launch of 100% drop-in renewable diesel has spiked sales on a per-outlet basis — 5X jump in renewable content, and 3X jump in gallons sold. In California, Propel Fuels is reporting a 15X jump in per-outlet sales of renewable fuel for diesel engines, based on a 3X increase in […]
By Sam Nejame & James Evangelow, Special to The Digest Two weeks ago the International Olympic Committee pulled Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. If you lived here, you couldn’t avoid the controversy over how much it might cost and the nagging questions about how the gargantuan facilities would be used afterward. The lost […]
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In Georgia, American Process has completed replication of its GreenPower+ cellulosic technology at its Thomaston, GA Biorefinery, and has shifted customer feedstock performance evaluation operations to Georgia. With the shift, the company announced that, pending improvements in ethanol or acetate market prices, or the introduction of a new production molecule, its Alpena Biorefinery operation will […]
In South Dakota, POET released its first-ever economic impact study, and reported that in 2014 the company generated a total of $13.5 billion in sales for U.S. businesses; added $5.4 billion in national gross domestic product; supported an estimated 39,978 full time jobs; and contributed $3.1 billion in income for American families. The report further […]
According to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 965,000 barrels per day (b/d)—or 40.53 million gallons daily. That is up 4,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 966,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 14.81 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol stood at […]
In California, Amyris’ Biossance launched its The Embodied Project to support its first product Biossance The Revitalizer, a facial moisturizer that replenishes the skin by using one of the emollients already found naturally within the body. The Embodied Project is a 30-day complimentary consultation program to encourage women to live life to the fullest and […]
In California, Bloom Energy and Exelon’s competitive energy business Constellation announced the development of 40 megawatts of fuel cell projects for commercial customers, including Walmart, AT&T and the City of Harford, Conn. The agreement builds on Exelon’s 2014 investment in 21 megawatts of Bloom projects and supports the growth of Constellation’s distributed energy business, which […]
In Florida, Alliance BioEnergy Plus has completed its FEL 1, the first of four engineering stages that are required to complete construction of the first commercial CTS plant to be located in central Georgia and expected to break ground this fall. The CTS technology is able to produce Sugars, Various Fine Chemicals, Plastics, Carbon Fibers […]
Scientists from the University of Maryland will report in the Journal of Theoretical Biology that they have isolated several different strains of bacteria that make high concentrations of biofuels from cellulosic biomass or from carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas. The authors isolated bacteria that make high concentrations of alcohols including ethanol and 1-butanol, and other […]
