In India, the country has proposed an annual budget for the renewable energy ministry of more than $746 million for 2016, up from less than $37 million last year, as it pushes more towards biofuel and clean power. The national biodiesel producers association says that programs like crop insurance for biodiesel crops and credit availability […]
In Washington, in an interview with POLITICO Pro Energy’s Morning Energy, American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard stipulated that his organization was pivoting its strategy toward reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard rather than continuing to call for an outright repeal. API said his group will target a sunset of the RFS after 2022 or a […]
In Washington, Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association sent a joint letter to President Obama urging the administration to take action against China’s antidumping and countervailing duties lobbed on US-produced DDGS through the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Department of Commerce and Department of Agriculture “to challenge both the process and preliminary determinations […]
In Maryland, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have undertaken a feasibility assessment of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard using a mathematical model of the US biofuel market/policy they developed that quantifies several categories of impacts across different regional markets. These market impacts include policy-specific effects of California’s LCFS as well as the federal level […]
In Poland, the country has delayed implementation of double counting for waste-based biodiesel until 2017 with the establishment of the rule not expected until the end of 2016. The plan had been to introduce the policy, making it compliant with the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive, back in 2015 but the Council of Ministers didn’t […]
In Belgium, the former head of NATO who is now advising the Danish biofuel industry wants the European Union to set a target for 5% advanced biofuel blending by 2030, despite the fuel being more expensive, saying the current non-binding 0.5% by 2020 isn’t enough to spur the investments required to transition towards even cleaner […]
In Canada, the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) and Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) are offering up to $40 million to Canadian innovators producing energy efficiency and conservation; carbon dioxide utilization, methane reduction, or cleaner energy production and usage projects. SDTC remarks, “CCEMC and SDTC have had great success together funding these types […]
In the Philippines, the Dept. of Justice has backed a push to exempt natural gas power plants from mandatory biodiesel blending. A bill in each of the two legislative houses seeks to amend the 2006 biofuel law that required the blend in an effort to reduce rolling blackouts during the summer months when the power […]
In Washington, the Senate Environment and Public Works hearing held Wednesday about Renewable Fuel Standard oversight saw both Democrats and Republicans sparring over the controversial policy. The committee’s Republican chairman said the EPA had hurt everyone in the supply chain from farmers to blenders in their mismanagement of the policy, calling it unstable. The Democratic […]
In Canada, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance has called upon national leaders to take advantage of the low price and abundant stockpiles of crude oil to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Baker pointed to the latest figures from the International Energy Agency that estimated global fossil fuel subsidies to be worth $490 billion, and outlined how […]
