Category: Top Stories

The Treasure in Trash: DOE embarks on ambitious effort to aggregate waste for energy

November 27, 2023 | Jim Lane

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office and Vehicle Technologies Office announced their intent to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to support the development of community planning and strategies for converting organic waste into feedstock for various clean transportation fuel products. The WASTE The WASTE: Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-uses […]

You Can’t Put a RIN in Your Gas Tank

November 26, 2023 | Jim Lane

By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest With the RFS still under attack from various sectors, there has been a lot of talk about RINS lately and how the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) creates RINS and how great that is. A RIN is a credit based on a Renewable […]

Be Here Now: The Origin Materials version as the company shifts to nearer-term products

November 20, 2023 | Jim Lane

Origin Materials announced 30 percent reduction in force earlier today. For several months, since the disclosure of long timelines for Origin’s first commercial OM2 project amidst soaring costs for debt and equity, observers had already surmised that Origin was going to be unable to realize its ambitions without a leaner organization, and a re-think of […]

The Hydrogen Economy: Making Green Steel Achievable

November 19, 2023 | Jim Lane

By Daren E. Daugaard, PhD, PE, Lee Enterprise Consulting Special to The Digest Since its inception over 4,000 years ago, steel has been the foundation of global modernization in building construction, transportation, and manufacturing. Steel and iron production ranks first in total global CO2 emissions at 8% and second in overall energy consumption. The industry […]

16 Tons and What do You Get: Canada grapples with bioeconomy growth as forests burn, emissions soar

November 10, 2023 | Jim Lane

OTTAWA — “The Inflation Reduction Act changed everything” is the headline comment as Canada’s leading bioeconomy event, Jeff Passmore’s Scaling Up 2023 got underway in its traditional home at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier, but nothing else was traditional as speakers grappled with spiraling Canadian emissions, the unique demand in cold Canada for heat as well as […]

Nick Andrews Takes His Hat Off: The making of the historic Southwest Airlines/USA BioEnergy SAF pact

November 5, 2023 | Jim Lane

In the world of the bioeconomy, USA BioEnergy CEO Nick Andrews is known as “the guy with the cowboy hat”. He’s almost never seen without it, on the sidelines of ABLC or other major events. He’s the Tim McGraw of the bioeconomy. I caught up with Nick as the historic 680 million gallons offtake deal […]

The Sydney Communique of the Bold Goals Action Group

October 30, 2023 | Jim Lane

The participants in the Sydney meeting of the Bold Goals Action Group, a coalition of the willing working to accelerate the rate of deployment in the advanced bioeconomy, issued the following Communique: The initial meeting of the Bold Goals Action Group was held in Sydney on 22 September 2023. It involved leaders of companies and […]

Bold Actions to Accelerate the Bioeconomy: Findings from the Bold Goals Action Group

October 30, 2023 | Jim Lane

In San Francisco on the sidelines of the ABLC NEXT 2023 meeting, a coalition of the willing called the Bold Goals Action Group outlined a series of 31 Bold Actions that must be taken by industry and government in order to achieve the global timelines for Net Zero economies that address climate change and the […]

Report from TECO: the growing corn ethanol industry in Latin America

October 28, 2023 | Jim Lane

Special to The Digest The current landscape and prospects of the corn ethanol industry was the focus of the 9th edition of TECO Latin America, hosted by Novozymes, the leader in biosolutions and producers of enzymes and yeast for the corn ethanol sector worldwide. TECO Latin America is the leading event in the Latin American […]

They Said it, They Showed It: Heard on the Floor at ABLC Next 2023

October 23, 2023 | Jim Lane

They Said it at ABLC Henrik Pedersen, Topsoe: “Make every carbon molecule count.” Vicki Thompson, Idaho National Lab, “You can’t just put a corn stalk in your fuel tank.” Christian Librera, UPM: “The US is about incentive and innovation; Europe has become a place of penalty and regulation.” Brain Foody, Iogen, “Scale up is where […]

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