In Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to submit a status report every 60 days “on its progress in complying with the court’s remand” stemming from the July 2017 ruling in Americans for Clean Energy v. EPA. The 2017 ruling required EPA […]
In Australia, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced A$3.9 million in funding to Renergi Pty Ltd (Renergi) for the development of the next phase of Renergi’s energy from waste technology in Collie, Western Australia. The A$9.4 million demonstration plant is being developed by Renergi in partnership with the Shire of Collie and with A$2 […]
In Italy, a new Joint Research Center report on the use of woody biomass for energy production in the EU shows the need to recognize that sustainability of bioenergy remains a complex issue with no one-size-fits-all answers, but that win-win and lose-lose forest management pathways for climate and biodiversity exist. Bioenergy sits at the nexus […]
In Texas, researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome using […]
In New Mexico, the Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative reports that Senate Bills 8 and 11, former tightening air pollution control laws and the latter which would create a low carbon fuel standard for the state, have passed their first hurdle by getting approval from the Senate Conservation Committee. Two more committees must approve the […]
In Illinois, Reuters reports that ADM says China has bought around 200 million gallons of ethanol for H1 2021, equal to its previous record for total annual imports of US-origin corn-based ethanol achieved in 2016. China used to be a regular buyer of US ethanol but the trade war launched by President Trump against China […]
In Nebraska, Green Plains Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Green Plains Ord LLC, has entered into an asset purchase agreement with GreenAmerica Biofuels Ord LLC to sell its 65 million gallon ethanol plant located in Ord, Neb. for $64 million, plus working capital. Simultaneously, Green Plains Partners announced that it has reached an agreement to […]
In Denmark, a CVR Energy, Inc.’s subsidiary has selected Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for its revamp of the Oklahoma refinery to renewable diesel production. Construction has already begun on the $110 million project that will see 100 million gallons of renewable diesel production annually starting from July 2021. The project will convert an existing hydrocracker […]
In Canada, Cielo and its contractors have completed the installation of the newly engineered proprietary cooling equipment at its waste-to-renewable fuel facility in Aldersyde, Alberta and are extremely pleased with the results. The waste process coming out of the reactor tower is at approximately 365 degrees Celsius and is then reduced to less than 20 […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced plans last week to make $8 million in Federal funding available for cost-shared research, development, and testing of technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from power systems or other industrial sources for bio-mediated uptake by algal systems to create valuable […]
