In Missouri, Emerson has been chosen to automate Strategic Biofuels’ $2-billion landmark Louisiana Green Fuels (LGF) power facility in Caldwell Parish. The project consists of a wood-fired power plant fully integrated with commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), delivering carbon‑neutral electricity to Louisiana’s grid. At full operation, LGF will convert 1.3 million tons of forestry […]
In Florida, PureCycle Technologies, Inc. has signed a €40 million grant agreement from the Innovation Fund with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) to fund its ‘ASTRA PP’ project in the NextGen District at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. Yesterday, CINEA announced that a total of 54 projects selected under the Innovation Fund […]
In China, researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) and the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, both affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have developed an alternative approach to producing chlorine—by harnessing the osmotic energy inherently stored in chloride-rich brines. In a study published in Nature Communications, the […]
In Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging for a swift passage of legislation to permanently allow year-round sales of E15 gasoline and bring long term certainty, as Trump’s tariffs and global instability are driving up costs and squeezing Illinois farmers. In the letter to leadership of the U.S. House on […]
In Texas, the Wall Street Journal reports that Exxon executives told investors that algae had the potential to be a viable short term biofuel feedstock back in 2020 just a week after scientists told them that algae was struggling to perform outside of lab conditions. Documents seen by the WSJ show that executives knew the […]
In Italy, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Eni signed a 15-year loan for €500 million to convert selected units of Eni’s Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi refinery, located in the Italian province of Pavia, into a biorefinery. The agreement was signed by EIB Vice-President Gelsomina Vigliotti and Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi. The project involves converting the refinery’s Hydrocracker (HDC2) […]
In South Africa, Phelan Green, through its clean fuels subsidiary Phelan eFuels, has selected Honeywell’s renewable fuel process technology for its planned electro‑sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) facility in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. Phelan eFuels will deploy Honeywell UOP’s Fischer Tropsch (FT) Unicracking™ process technology, which uses FT liquids and waxes made from CO2 […]
In Indonesia, Nextchem, through its subsidiary KT Tech, has been awarded a contract for early engineering works and proprietary equipment supply for a SAF plant under development in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. The plant is designed to produce 60,000 tons per year of SAF with high efficiency using palm oil mill effluent (POME) as primary feedstock, […]
In Iowa, a new study for the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association by Decision Innovation Solutions says Iowa biodiesel facilities produced just 266 million gallons in 2025, down nearly 25% from 2024. The state’s biodiesel plants have the capacity to produce 400 million gallons per year, underscoring the difficulties facing producers. Iowa previously was home to 11 biodiesel plants, but just eight remain. Specifically, low renewable fuel volume obligations and uncertainty around federal tax credits have been major pain […]
In Tennessee, FIDEM Energy LLC announced a strategic partnership with Japan-based Sojitz Corporation to advance U.S. renewable natural gas (“RNG”) production. Based in East Tennessee, FIDEM produces and markets RNG generated from landfill gas. FIDEM’s management team has decades of experience in operating solid waste management landfills across the Southeastern United States. Currently, FIDEM owns […]
