In Nevada, Comstock Inc. announced the demonstration of breakthrough cellulosic fuels pathways to produce renewable diesel, marine, sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”) and gasoline from woody biomass at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost in comparison to all known methods, thereby enabling a massive new renewable fuels feedstock capable of neutralizing more than 40% of America’s […]
In Canada, Canadian National Railway and Progress Rail have partnered with Chevron’s Renewable Energy Group (REG) to test high-level renewable fuel blends including both biodiesel and renewable diesel in support of the companies’ sustainability goals. Trials and qualifications of up to 100% renewable fuel are important steps in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from CN’s existing […]
In Iowa, in 2022, Iowa ethanol production increased to a record-breaking 4.5 billion gallons, up from the previous record of 4.4 billion gallons in 2021. Observers credit fuel demand returning to pre-pandemic levels, Iowa ethanol plant efficiencies, and the ample local corn supply as factors in the upward trend. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) Executive […]
In Illinois, Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations has awarded a grant of $34 million to the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency project, an international research effort led by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In its 10-year history, RIPE has demonstrated large increases in crop productivity in replicated field trials on the university farm. […]
In India, the Economic Times newspaper reports the government plans to starting slowly phasing in E20 in April, ahead of the 2025/26 nationwide blending mandate. The country has five 2G ethanol plants currently under development while it has been supporting sugarcane- and grain-based ethanol distillery installation through soft financing and ever-higher prices over the last […]
In Oregon, the Oregonian newspaper reports that Red Rock Biofuels facility that has been under construction in Lakeview is facing foreclosure due to the inability to pay principal and interest payments on around $300 million in debt, with an auction scheduled for February 9 if the payments aren’t made five days before then. The wood […]
In Brazil, Portos y Mercados reports Petrobras carried out the first bunker filling with renewable content in the country on New Year’s Eve. At the Rio Grande Terminal (Terig), in Rio Grande do Sul, the vessel “Darcy Ribeiro”, from Transpetro, was fueled with the new fuel with a lower carbon footprint, a mixture of 90% […]
In Belgium, BluePlasma consortium has received approval from VLAIO to set up an R&D pilot project. In concrete terms, an infrastructure will be built in Antwerp to convert CO2 into CO via plasma technology. The idea is to capture greenhouse gas (CO2) locally and convert it into a high-quality chemical material (CO). This carbon monoxide […]
In Ireland, the Irish Examiner reports that a local official and a junior minister had cow manure thrown at them during a public meeting last week in County Galway where the recent planning decision had been taken to approve a biogas facility on the edge of the town limits of Gort. The meeting was organized […]
In France, the International Energy Agency’s Renewables 2022 review says global biofuel demand is expected to be 6% or 9.1 billion liters per year (MLPY) higher in 2022 than in 2021. Renewable diesel makes up the largest share of this year-on-year expansion, thanks to attractive policies in the United States and Europe. Blending requirements and […]
