By Mike Newman, Chief Operating Officer, Parhelion Underwriting Inc. Special to The Digest Connecting people from renewable fuels companies with projects they want to finance to the people who can finance them was a key goal for Parhelion Underwriting’s recent virtual roundtable. The finance panel included Justin Goldstein from Goldman Sachs, John May from Hamilton […]
Brightmark and Chevron just formed a joint venture to own projects across the United States to produce and market dairy biomethane. Greenlane Renewables signed a $5.8 million contract with Brightmark. Construction started in Ohio on a $33 million RNG project. Verbio’s RNG facility slated to be running by fall 2021. A new RNG facility is […]
The recent Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates have shown us that everyone has boxing gloves on these days, but now a company has created boxing gloves made from cactus leather instead of the traditional cowhide leather, making your fight a more sustainable and eco-friendlier one. In today’s Digest, lignin-based asphalt is getting a test drive, the […]
In Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on the smallest and most powerful scissors ever invented: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Digest readers will easily recognize Doudna for co-founding Caribou Life Sciences (more here) and also serving on […]
In Washington, a coalition of major oil & gas, power, automotive, fuel cell, and hydrogen companies have come together to develop a Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy. In the most ambitious scenario, the authors concluded that hydrogen demand potential across all these applications could reach 17 million metric tons by 2030 and 63 […]
In Louisiana, Renewable Energy Group said it will undertake a capacity expansion of its Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery by 250 million gallons annually to 340 million gallons per year. This announcement follows a thorough review and site selection process. Construction should begin in mid to late 2021 with target mechanical completion date in late 2023. The […]
By David B. Fournier, Partner and Firmwide Chair of the Patent Prosecution and Portfolio Counseling Practice at Perkins Coie LLC and Linda Falcon, Associate attorney at Perkins Coie LLC Special to The Digest The global biofuels market size is in excess of $100 billion and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate […]
Ballard just hosted a 5-hour analyst day with no breaks and there was a lot to unpack in terms of how the company intends to apply fuel cells in the bus, truck, trains and even marine sectors. But the key message was the huge expanding fuel cell and hydrogen market applications – specifically the Heavy […]
In San Francisco, startup company Wildtype gives salmon cells nutrients, sugars, salts, amino acids and growth factor to “grow” salmon tissue in its lab. If you are still hungry after that, Netherlands-based Mosa Meat is scaling up their industrial-sized production line to demonstrate the safety of cultivated meat and introduce the first cultivated beef to […]
They’re calling it “the circular economy” these days — a vision for a fully sustainable society using renewable resources in a circle of sourcing, production and use. Which raises the question of which is the most circular of fuels — the roundest, if you will — right now, it’s looking like rDME. DME doesn’t stand […]
