In Washington, Reuters reports sources say the Environmental Protection Agency, as soon as last Friday, was expected to send its recommendations regarding the 2021 and 2022 biofuel blending mandates to the White House, recommendations which suggest levels below 2020 levels for 2021 but higher for 2022. On news of the lower blending volume proposal, said […]
In Denmark, A.P. Moller – Maersk has identified its partners to produce green fuel for its first vessel to operate on carbon neutral methanol: REintegrate, a subsidiary of the Danish renewable energy company European Energy. REintegrate and European Energy will establish a new Danish facility to produce the approx. 10,000 metric tons of carbon neutral […]
In Washington, DTN reports Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production fell again last week to 973,000 bpd which in turn saw stocks draw down by 700,000 barrels or 3.1% to 21.6 million. Despite the lower stock levels, blending activity also fell last week to 921,000 bpd but was still 7% higher than the same […]
In Texas, United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP), the University of California, Merced, and the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources today announced a five-year partnership to promote drought resilience in sorghum and increase demand for the cereal crop in biofuel and bioproduct markets. Efforts for the partnership will primarily be conducted at […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $26 million to build infrastructure to expand the availability of higher-blend renewable biofuels by 822 million gallons annually in 23 states. USDA is making the awards under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program. The funding will help significantly increase the use of biofuels derived from […]
In Nigeria, the Daily Post newspaper reports that 20,000 hectares in Adamawa State has been provided to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to set up an 89 million liter per year ethanol plant. Ethanol from the project is expected to be blended domestically or exported to the region. In 2017, the NNPC announced intentions to […]
In Canada, the ZooShare Biogas Cooperative, in partnership with the Toronto Zoo, Loblaw Companies Ltd. (Loblaw) and EnerFORGE announced that its most recent project has gone live. The ZooShare Biogas Project is the first of its kind in Canada and an example of the circular economy in action. It converts 2,000 metric tons of Zoo […]
In Washington state, a patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gasses into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled up at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with the help of partners at Oregon State University and the carbon-recycling experts at LanzaTech. Two key technologies power the […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that with the country fairly sure it won’t be subsidizing sugar exports in the season starting in October thanks to high global sugar prices, it is rewarding exporters and sugar mills producing ethanol from sugarcane juice and heavy-B molasses, thereby reducing sugar production, with additional monthly domestic sugar […]
In California, a new study concluded that more than 2 million metric tons per year of CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere and injected safely into the earth at two ethanol plant sites in California. The study was commissioned by Aemetis, Inc. The Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) geologic formation review and drilling study […]
