In China, a Chinese team of researchers whose study is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, has now genetically engineered a microbial community which could serve as a living carbon sink. In this community, carbon dioxide is first converted into sugar by photosynthesis, then the sugar is converted into useful chemicals. Various bacterial strains are […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that shortly following President Lula’s inauguration on Sunday he announced temporary tax exemptions on fuel, and on Monday the national bulletin published a tax exemption on fossil and biodiesel for the next year and one for gasoline and ethanol for the next two months. The tax waiver represents a $9.87 billion […]
In California, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced it entered into a four-year $150 million sustainability-linked senior secured term loan with Riverstone Credit Partners L.P., a dedicated credit investment platform focused on energy, power, decarbonization, and infrastructure managed by Riverstone Holdings LLC. This financing provides Clean Energy with additional capital to execute its renewable natural gas […]
In Washington, Brownfield Ag News reports Energy Information Administration data shows last week’s unusually cold weather that saw temperatures tumble well below freezing for much of the country together with the Christmas holidays pushed down ethanol production to the lowest level seen since early October at 963,000 barrels. Despite lower production, stocks rose to a […]
In India, the Press Trust of India reports the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy’s New Biogas Projects Experts Appraisal Committee has accredited Sistema.bio’s small-scale biodigesters under the National Biogas Program in an effort to quickly scale up anaerobic digestion for farmers to producer gas for cooking and organic fertilizer production. The company already has […]
In Singapore, Offshore Energy reports one of Ocean Network Express’s containerships has bunkered with Chevron’s marine biofuel. The 4,800 TEU containership MOL Endowment bunkered 992.2 metric tons of VLSFO-B24 with support from the Singapore Trade Data Exchange (SGTraDex). In February, the company trialed marine biofuels on one of its Panamax boxships. Using biofuels is part […]
In Indiana, WCSI news reports POET plans to reopen its Cloverdale biorefinery next year thanks to the anticipated increase in ethanol blending to 15% from the current 10%. The company has four other ethanol plants operating in the state, but Cloverdale is set to produce around 100 million gallons of ethanol annually. The additional blending […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association’s annual review of vehicle owner’s manuals and warranty statements indicates that E15 is explicitly approved by the manufacturer for use in the vast majority of model year 2023 cars and light trucks. Notably, for the first time, Mitsubishi lists E15 as an approved fuel in some of its 2023 […]
In Canada, the Alberta Farm Express reports the national canola association expects renewable diesel production to soar domestically, significantly increasing demand for canola. It expects production to reach 1 billion liters by 2024, doubling the year after before reaching more than doubling again to 4.5 billion liters in 2027. Crushing capacity will need to increase […]
In California, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis. The new approach, reported in Nature Catalysis, could help advance […]
