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Twain Financial Partners commits $1B to renewables over next three years

Twain Financial Partners commits $1B to renewables over next three years

March 17, 2022 |

In Missouri, Twain Financial Partners recently announced its commitment to fund $1 billion in renewable energy projects over the next three years. Twain’s investment will provide capital to accelerate renewables development across the U.S. with key development partners. Twain’s clean energy platform offers single-source funding – providing all capital needed – for developers with renewable […]

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Greasezilla teams with LEND Environmental to boost UCO and FOG collection in California

Greasezilla teams with LEND Environmental to boost UCO and FOG collection in California

March 17, 2022 |

In West Virginia, Downey Ridge Environmental Company, developer of Greasezilla fats, oils and grease (FOG) and used cooking oil (UCO) separation and processing system, is partnering with LEND Environmental to accelerate recycling of used cooking oil and grease trap waste across southern California. The companies will set up additional locations to separate the waste input […]

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Vattenfall inaugurates new biofuel heat plant in Sweden

Vattenfall inaugurates new biofuel heat plant in Sweden

March 17, 2022 |

In Sweden, Vattenfall’s new biofuel heat plant Carpe Futurum in Uppsala, Sweden, has now been inaugurated and taken into operation. The new plant will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 200,000 metric tons per year, compared with when peat and other fossil fuels were used. This will halve the climate footprint for the around 170,000 […]

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Argonne researchers using capacitive deionization for battery recycling and bioenergy production

Argonne researchers using capacitive deionization for battery recycling and bioenergy production

March 17, 2022 |

In Illinois, when a car battery reaches the end of its life, it goes to an automotive shredder that chops it up. Getting out the useful chemicals from these chopped up batteries is no easy task. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have turned to a process called capacitive deionization […]

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Iowa House bill seeks to stall imminent domain for carbon pipelines for a year

Iowa House bill seeks to stall imminent domain for carbon pipelines for a year

March 17, 2022 |

In Iowa, Iowa Public Radio reports state House Republicans have introduced a bill that would stall the use of eminent domain for securing land for proposed carbon pipelines until March 1, 2023. Landowners in the state are concerned that the companies behind the pipelines will take their land even if they don’t want to sell, […]

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DOE spells out measures to cushion impact of high petroleum prices

DOE spells out measures to cushion impact of high petroleum prices

March 16, 2022 |

In the Philippines, the Department of Energy (DOE) has been carrying out measures to mitigate the impact of the current crisis in Europe to ordinary Filipino consumers. As part of those measures, The DOE is also asking for intervention power to study the flexibility in fuel blending under Biofuel Law that regulates mixing ethanol or […]

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Ethanol production dips slightly but stocks reach pandemic levels

Ethanol production dips slightly but stocks reach pandemic levels

March 16, 2022 |

In Washington, Dow Jones reports Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production fell slightly last week to 1.026 million barrels per day, but stocks returned to pandemic levels to 25.95 million barrels, up from 25.27 million barrels the week prior. Analysts had expected production to fall even further to between 1.013 million barrels per day […]

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Spark+ Africa Fund raises over $40M for clean cooking

Spark+ Africa Fund raises over $40M for clean cooking

March 16, 2022 |

In Ivory Coast, the Spark+ Africa Fund has raised over $40 million in a first close, it was announced on Wednesday. The Fund is the world’s first impact investment fund focused on financing the value chains of clean and modern cooking appliances and fuels, to make them available to more people across Sub-Saharan Africa. Clean […]

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Seanergy Maritime successfully completes capsize vessel biofuel trials with NYK

Seanergy Maritime successfully completes capsize vessel biofuel trials with NYK

March 16, 2022 |

In Greece, Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. announced that it has successfully completed marine biofuel trials in cooperation with one of its major charterers, NYK Line, on one of the company’s Capesize Vessels. The biofuel is a 0.50% VLSFO blended with a waste-based and ISCC certified FAME component at a 90% – 10% ratio. Advanced real […]

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Piping Hot Australia and the University of Technology developing seaweed-based fiber

Piping Hot Australia and the University of Technology developing seaweed-based fiber

March 16, 2022 |

In Australia, Australian brand Piping Hot Australia and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) announced their research partnership to develop a sustainable fiber made from seaweed. Piping Hot has commissioned this innovative biomaterial research as a vital investment in its mission for clean oceans. Commencing in February 2022, UTS climate scientists began building a prototype fiber […]

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