Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Norske Skog currently manufactures newsprint and light weight coated paper grades. We are seeking to diversify into the biofuel/biochemical space in order to make best use of the resources available to us. Tell us about your role and what you are focused on […]
“For sure, we see this period as the most difficult, the most critical.” From remarks by Antonio De Palmas — president, Boeing Italy, at the World Bioenergy Leadership Forum In aviation we have changing demographics, and climate urgency. Climate change and pollution is a big challenge for us. At the saem time, aviation is expanding and […]
The EU is changing its ambitions on biofuels — some say, “with every passing fad”, others say that EU biofuels have “not met the sustainability goals many hoped for it.” Why use biofuels at all, in terms of carbon goals? How does the European renewable fuels industry look at itself? Too focused on survival instead […]
The Digest’s guide to the links between terror, petroleum dependence, economic stability, and military build-ups, as nations bear down in pursuit of energy security. In March 2014, Truman National Security Project executive director Mike Breen warned, in an address at the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference: “The most dangerous fallacy going around today is the idea […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) submitted comments today to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expressing support for a proposed legal agreement that sets specific deadlines for establishing Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volume levels in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In addition, the RFA comments encourage EPA to abandon the unlawful “blend wall” methodology […]
In Germany, UFOP, the Union zur Förderung von Oel- und Proteinpflanzen, said that oilseed meal prices have converged as price trends in oilseed meals are mixed. Whereas prices of soybean meals have been fairly weak, rapeseed meal recently overshot the EUR 250 per tonne mark, a 2015 high. “Interest in rapeseed meal recently picked up surprisingly […]
According to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 958,000 barrels per day (b/d)—or 40.24 million gallons daily. That is up 46,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 920,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 14.10 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol stood at […]
In Florida, Kissimmee Citgo and Protec Fuel have launched the first 88-octane E15 ethanol blend fuel available in Orlando, E15 can run in any 2001 and newer gasoline engine and costs less than regular gas. The station also sells E85 fuel and B20 biodiesel fuel, which makes it important in the growth of emissions-reducing, renewable […]
In France, Deinove and Avril announced that they would screen a 6,000-bacteria bank of Deinococci and other genera to identify 20 strains capable of producing useful molecules in terms of animal nutrition and health, and AVRIL Group would characterize the molecules produced and to perform application tests. The goal of this new stage is to confirm each […]
In Sweden, Taurus Energy AB, Lund, Sweden and Canadian based Lallemand have signed an agreement for collaboration with respect to the development, marketing, sale and distribution of Taurus’ Gen 2 platform on the U.S. market. “It has been our goal from the beginning to market our yeast technology globally,” says Lars Welin, CEO, Taurus Energy […]
