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Cyclum Truck Stops to open first renewable fuels facility in California

Cyclum Truck Stops to open first renewable fuels facility in California

February 21, 2024 |

In California, dispensing Transitional and all Renewable Fuels, Cyclum proudly announces its first implementation of its Cyclum Truck Stops coming to the City of Tulare, California in 2024 as the development and permitting process has been on-going for the last year. This site is the first of six in Central California over the next 2 […]

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Minnesota Biofuels Association working to ensure biofuel inclusion in Clean Transportation Standard

Minnesota Biofuels Association working to ensure biofuel inclusion in Clean Transportation Standard

February 21, 2024 |

In Minnesota, Brownfield Ag News reports the state’s biofuel association is working hard to ensure that biofuels are included in the Clean Transportation Standard the legislature’s working group is currently developing, modeled after California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. California’s law is based on carbon intensity of fuels, but the Minnesota Biofuels Association is concerned about […]

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Valmet to supply partial bioconversion for Indonesian coal-fired power plant

Valmet to supply partial bioconversion for Indonesian coal-fired power plant

February 21, 2024 |

In Indonesia, Valmet will supply a partial bioconversion for PT. Cikarang Listrindo Tbk’s coal-fired circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler in Babelan, Indonesia. The investment reflects Cikarang Listrindo’s initiative for greener energy production and environmentally friendlier operation by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and cutting CO2 emissions. The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the […]

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TruAlt Bioenergy to expand ethanol production by 270,000 liters per day

TruAlt Bioenergy to expand ethanol production by 270,000 liters per day

February 21, 2024 |

In India, the Press Trust of India reports TruAlt Bioenergy will expand its ethanol production by 270,000 liters per day in the next fiscal year and is set to invest up to $72 million setting up 10 other ethanol plants. Current production is around 2 million liters per day at 5 facilities. The company is […]

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DOE labs discover promising pathway to formic acid from CO2

DOE labs discover promising pathway to formic acid from CO2

February 21, 2024 |

In Colorado, identifying routes to efficiently convert carbon dioxide (CO2) to an intermediate chemical which can be further upgraded to fuels or commercially valuable chemicals has been challenging. New research from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories discovered a promising pathway to produce formic acid from CO2 with high energy efficiency and durability using […]

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ACE submits comments to CARB concerned about proposed LCFS changes

ACE submits comments to CARB concerned about proposed LCFS changes

February 21, 2024 |

In California, the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) recently submitted comments to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regarding its 2024 proposed amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The comments submitted by ACE CEO Brian Jennings focused on the proposed “sustainability criteria” for crop-based biofuels, the need to approve E15 use in California […]

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Prio supplies first ship with B20 marine diesel

Prio supplies first ship with B20 marine diesel

February 20, 2024 |

In Portugal, Transportes y Negocios reports Prio carried out the first supply of a ship with eco-bunker biofuel in the port of Aveiro. The supply of 50 tons of eco bunker from Prio to the FWN SUN ship, owned by Schulte & Bruns Nederland BV, was carried out using a tanker truck. The B20 eco […]

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Noor Oil teams with Beeah group to encourage customers to recycle their cooking oil for biodiesel

Noor Oil teams with Beeah group to encourage customers to recycle their cooking oil for biodiesel

February 20, 2024 |

In the UAE, ESG Mena reports that Noor Oil is teaming with the Beeah group to create a used cooking oil biodiesel supply chain. Customers can source UCO bottles from different outlets to collect their oil and then deposit it into one of Beeah’s five UCO collection centers. The expectation is that at least 2,000 […]

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Enviva filing for bankruptcy following bad futures play

Enviva filing for bankruptcy following bad futures play

February 20, 2024 |

In Maryland, the Wall Street Journal reports the largest wood pellet exporter in the US, Enviva, is filing for bankruptcy following a bad move on the futures market that led to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. It forced the company to miss a $24 million interest payment to bondholders earlier this month, although […]

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Oulu Energy to build 100MW green hydrogen plant in Finland

Oulu Energy to build 100MW green hydrogen plant in Finland

February 20, 2024 |

In Finland, Oulu Energy is planning to build a 100 megawatts (MW) hydrogen production plant in Oulu, northern Finland. When completed, the plant would be a big step towards clean energy production and thus a natural part of Oulu Energy’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. Partner for the project planning is the Finnish […]

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