In Massachusetts, Ginkgo Bioworks announced that a Ginkgo-led team — including partners from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines, and Global Algae Innovations — has been awarded funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). The scope of the project will be to develop a new approach to […]
In Iowa, as the Biden administration sits on a Midwest-backed request spearheaded by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to allow the year-round sale of E15, U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are demanding the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) finalize the necessary waiver quickly, affording retailers time to prepare for summer 2024 […]
In Australia, Greenhill Energy has launched their A$425 million plans to build Australia’s first full integrated processing facility to convert landfill waste and sustainable biomass into high value products such as fertilizers and synthetic fuels, and into low-cost clean hydrogen for use in emission free power and transport. Following recent positive trials and ongoing research […]
In Canada, TransLink is introducing renewable diesel into its bus fleet as a cleaner fuel option, in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Surrey Transit Centre will be the first bus depot to transition and will be fully fuelled with renewable diesel by January 1, 2024. With this change, TransLink will be reducing […]
In New York state, Dimensional Energy, Inc. announced the successful closure of a $20 million Series A funding round. In addition, the climate tech company announces their filing of the Delaware Public Benefit Corporation Charter, the first step in becoming a certified B Corporation. The funding round was led by Envisioning Partners, a prominent Korea-based […]
In Belgium, European Commission has approved a €140 million Portuguese scheme to support the production of renewable hydrogen and biomethane to foster the transition to a net-zero economy, in line with the Green Deal Industrial Plan. The scheme was approved under the State aid Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, adopted by the Commission on March […]
In Japan, on December 12, NYK, JERA Co., Inc. and Resonac Holdings Corporation an agreement to jointly study the supply of ammonia as fuel to ships. As part of the Green Innovation Fund Project of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), NYK is conducting research and development of a tugboat equipped with […]
In the UK, Standard Gas and Denmark’s Topsoe A/S have agreed to collaborate on a UK-based project to produce renewable natural gas and methanol from residual waste feedstocks. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Danish group to supply its proprietary methanation and methanol technologies for a project being developed […]
In Washington state, carbon conversion startup OCOchem has raised $5 million in Seed funding from lead investor TO VC. INPEX Corp., the LCY Lee Family Office, and MIH Capital Management also participated in the round. These investors join Halliburton Labs, Halliburton Company’s energy and climate tech accelerator, which has been supporting OCOchem’s scaling since 2021. Using its proprietary technology, the Richland, Wash.-based company […]
In Delaware, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded two DSU researchers a three-year just under $300,000 grant for a project that could leverage the properties of microalgae toward energy and cancer treatment purposes. The technical title of the project is “A Multiple-Stage Cost Effective Smart Farming of Engineered Microalgae for Simultaneous Production of High-Value Molecules […]
