In Nevada, Comstock Fuels Corporation amended its exclusive license agreement with RenFuel K2B AB for use of RenFuel’s patented catalytic esterification process to refine Comstock Fuels’ proprietary BioleumTM biointermediates. The amendment expanded the territory from North America, Central America, and South America to include Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam to facilitate ongoing project development by […]
In California, Invizyne Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $2 million project to enable enzyme production for cell-free biomanufacturing of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The project is a cost share grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s BioMADE initiative, in partnership with the University of Georgia. It is one of 17 BioMADE projects announced on October […]
In Scotland, the first tanker of sustainably produced bioacetone and biobutanol has been dispatched from Celtic Renewables’ flagship Biorefinery in Grangemouth, marking a major milestone for the world’s shift to green chemicals. This achievement is backed by over £60million in funding which enabled the construction of Scotland’s first Biorefinery and its commercial-scale operations. The cargo […]
In Utah, the University of Utah and Sandia National Laboratories have agreed to a strategic partnership that will look to help develop collaborations in various technical areas, as well as give U researchers and students opportunities to develop new skills and research paths via working on projects in Sandia facilities. According to the memorandum of […]
In the UK, Unite, the UK’s leading union, which represents the workforce at Grangemouth, has written to energy secretary Ed Miliband demanding action on Grangemouth. In September, Grangemouth’s owners Petroineos announced that it intended to close the only refinery in Scotland with the loss of over 400 directly employed jobs, in the second quarter of […]
In Indiana, Corteva Inc. announced a collaboration with bp on the companies’ shared intent to form a crop-based biofuel feedstock joint venture. The JV envisaged by Corteva and bp would produce and deliver crop-based biofuel feedstocks to help meet the anticipated growth in demand for ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ (SAF). A number of countries around the […]
In the UK, hundreds of small green gas plants in the UK are set to close by 2031 with the loss of 2 terawatt hours of clean electricity to the grid – enough clean electricity to power around 500,000 homes. The closures have been revealed in a survey of members undertaken by the Anaerobic Digestion […]
In Singapore, Neste and Singapore-based essential chemicals company PCS Pte. Ltd. have launched a cooperation for the supply of renewable solutions to Southeast Asia’s chemicals industry. The collaboration aims at introducing renewable raw materials to replace fossil ones in chemicals and plastics value chains in the region. Neste will supply PCS with Neste RE. Based […]
In Spain, bp Energy Spain has signed a strategic agreement with the Spanish agri-food group MIGASA for the annual supply of up to 40,000 metric tons of non-food industrial waste from vegetable oil for a decade. bp will use these bio-based feedstocks together with other fossil feedstocks to co-process renewable fuels at its Castellón refinery, […]
In New York state, NY Waterway, which operates the largest ferry fleet between New Jersey and New York, has completed its trial of renewable diesel fuel and is moving forward with efforts to transition a significant portion of its fuel usage to this renewable, cleaner energy source. This initiative complements a fleet-wide hybrid/electrification program that […]
