In this presentation, Aemetis CEO Eric McAfee took the ABLC 2024 stage in Washington DC to outline the company’s milestones ahead, progress to date, technology, financial estimates, policy asks, its portfolio of Carbon Zero One projects, and the company’s expansion in RNG, advanced fuels and more.
Christian Librera, who was appointed Senior Vice President of UPM Biofuels in 2023, discusses the company’s role and the future of advanced biofuels in global decarbonising efforts. After several years’ experience in the field of biofuels, he states it is now more important than ever to acknowledge advanced biofuels as part of the solution in […]
As presented in the weekly online series ABLC Connect, this presentation looks at headwinds and tailwinds impacting the development and deployment of sustainable aviation fuels, including commodity and carbon prices, mandates, incentives, technology trends, policy and capacity building.
Recently, we reported that researchers at the University of Tartu are undertaking a project to engineer gas-fermenting acetogens to more efficiently fuels and chemicals, and create nearly 750 modified bacterial strains and consolidate the collected data as well as existing similar information about acetogens in a public knowledgebase. If you have gleaned from earlier editions […]
If designed cars are a thing, why can’t designer hydrogen be a thing? So asks Terry Mazanec of LEC Partners in this ABLC 2024 presentation. He notes that clean hydrogen represents just 0.7 percent of global hydrogen production, but that clean H2 capacity is predicted to grow 40X by 2030. Here, Dr. Mazanec details how […]
In this presentation from ABLC 2024, Aether Fuels CEO COnor Madigan outlined a goal to develop the lowest cost, highest yield, and most feedstock flexible platform for sustainable hydrocarbons, incubated by Xora Innovation is an early-stage deep tech investment platform of Temasek, based on novel catalysts, equipment, and process flow that “dramatically reduces CapEx and […]
In Washington DC, Alder Fuels founder and former CEO Bryan Sherbacow was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison in connection with a scheme to embezzle at least $5.9 million and to defraud several investors out of approximately $15 million. According to court documents, between 2021 and 2022, Bryan Sherbacow, 55, of Charleston, South Carolina, […]
From the Netherlands comes news that SkyNRG is launching Project Runway. an initiative brings together airlines and corporates to navigate the complexities of SAF procurement. Microsoft is joining as a founding member. Under the Book & Claim approach, Project Runway not only allows airlines access to SAF, but also allows them to share the SAF […]
The BioFore company, the Finnish Forest Giant, the hydrocarbons from the woods folk, by any name this forest products company has made a splash with its hydrocarbons from wood technologies and a successful leap to commercial scale — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — from a wood basket outlook […]
The new Billion Ton Study is out and Oak Ridge’s Matt Langholtz has the highlights in this ABLC 2024 presentation. He noted that the bioeconomy currently provides 340 million tons biomass; that currently available resources can double biomass in the near term; that a mature market induces another 440-800 million tons of biomass depending on […]
