In Washington, Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm calling on the department to address the most recent inaccurate and misleading study by Tyler Lark and others that claims to have been partially funded by the department. The study directly contradicts conclusions from DOE’s own […]
In California, Aemetis has signed an offtake agreement with Qantas Group and Qantas Airlines for 35 million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel to be delivered over the 7-year term of the agreement. The value of the contract including incentives is approximately $250 million. This supply agreement with Aemetis builds on Qantas’s expanding effort for […]
In France, TotalEnergies’ Normandy platform has successfully started production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). This new site complements the biojet fuel production capacities of La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Oudalle plant (Seine-Maritime). This move enables TotalEnergies to meet demand from its customers and respond to French legislation, which calls for aircraft to use at […]
In Scotland, The Herald reports Western laird Donald Houston of Ardnamurchan Estates who has substantial investments in Ardnamurchan Distillery, Woodlands Renewables and Celtic Renewables is bringing the three companies together to ensure the success of Celtic’s new biorefinery. The one million liter per year facility is the first of five that are planned to produce […]
In Zimbabwe, New Zimbabwe reports the planned expansion for the Green Fuel ethanol facility in Chisumbanje will produce 32MW of power with the majority going to the national grid to help alleviate electricity shortages. Ethanol production will reach 220 million liters per year from cane grown on 24,000 hectares. The government recently cut the ethanol […]
In Switzerland, Sulzer has been awarded by Yangzhou Huitong Biological New Material to supply technology and key equipment for its polylactic acid (PLA) production facility in Jiangsu Province, China. The facility will have a production capacity of 30,000 metric tons per year. The plant will be able to produce a large portfolio of PLA grades […]
In Malaysia, the Edge Markets reports CB Industrial Product Holdings paid $ million to buy the remaining 30% of biofuels producer Gulf Lubes Malaysia from three shareholders who held 10% each. GLM had been suffering from shareholder disagreements since mid-2020 but with CBIP now owning 100% of the company, it plans to move forward with […]
In Mexico, the seeds of the wild castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, can be converted into biodiesel according to a new study in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. The Mexican research team shows how the requisite transesterification reaction of oil from the seeds using methanol in the presence of sodium hydroxide […]
In Canada, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, launched consultations to develop Canada’s Clean Electricity Standard (CES) and drive progress towards a net-zero electricity grid by 2035. Work on clean electricity will also be key to reaching Canada’s ambitious and achievable emissions reduction target of 40 to 45 percent below […]
In Maryland, Atlantic Biomass, LLC has announced results of their Phase I Maryland Energy Innovation Institute Scale-Up project to verify the use of residual hemp biomass for the production of biofuels including sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). Robert Kozak, President of Atlantic Biomass, said the results clearly showed that the very low-value biomass left over from […]
