In Florida, the General Manager of a company that produces and sells renewable fuel and fuel credits was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release for his role in a scheme that generated over $7 million in fraudulent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) renewable fuels credits […]
In California, Plural announced a new private placement offering by Opdyke Class A. The project features a 20 MWAC solar and 97 MWh battery microgrid delivering electricity to a co-located renewable biofuels facility in Hockley County, Texas, owned by a global energy and commodities firm and backed by a multi-billion investment management company. Through Plural’s securities […]
In Kenya, Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to sustainable investing, announces financing for KOKO, a climate technology leader. Through an innovative and scalable carbon finance debt facility, the loan from the Mirova Gigaton Fund will enable KOKO to scale up a new type of residential energy utility across Kenya and Rwanda, in […]
In North Carolina, ABB and Charbone Hydrogen Corporation – an integrated green hydrogen production company based in Montreal, Canada – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to collaborate on the development of up to 15 modular and scalable green hydrogen production facilities across North America over the next five years, providing a clean […]
In Germany, TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with the German developer RWE to supply 30,000 tons a year of green hydrogen to the German Leuna refinery for fifteen years, beginning in 2030. The green hydrogen will be produced by a 300 MW electrolyzer, built and operated by RWE in Lingen. Green hydrogen storage will be […]
In Washington, Brownfield Ag News report Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol stocks continue to build on the back of slower demand, reaching 27.376 million barrels last week, as a nearly five-year high continues. Ethanol purchases from refiners continued to slip, and production dipped to six-week lows in turn at 1.062 million barrels per day. […]
In Brazil, Riograndense Refinery (RPR) successfully performed the co-processing test of 5% biomass pyrolysis oil or bio-oil (non-food biomass raw material) with mineral load. In this way, the refinery, located in Rio Grande (RS), which has corporate interests of Petrobras, Ultra and Braskem, was the first in the country able to produce cellulosic-content fuels. Based […]
In Washington, Growth Energy commended the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after the agency announced that it would reconsider its Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles, otherwise known as the tailpipe emissions rule. “We’re glad to see EPA reconsider this rule, which arbitrarily puts its thumb on the scale […]
In the UK, the Baltic Exchange has introduced a series of green fuel options to its FuelEU voyage and compliance cost calculator as more shipowners, traders and charterers seek to understand the commercial implications of this regulation on their voyage costs. Biodiesel, bio-LNG, bio-LPG, green methanol, green hydrogen and green ammonia have all been added […]
In Spain, Moeve, Exolum, and the Port Authority of Huelva presented at the Port of Huelva the new loading and unloading infrastructure, currently under construction, which will improve operational capacities and provide service to the new 2G biofuels plant that Moeve and its partner are building at the La Rábida Energy Park in Palos de […]
