In Washington state, Microsoft Corp. employees who fly between their global headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and California on Alaska Airlines will fly more sustainably thanks to the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to cover their business travel. The SAF, supplied by SkyNRG, and produced from waste oil, is an important option for the aviation […]
In Georgia, SYNLawn has earned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label. The product, SYNAugustine 547 Bio-Based System, is now able to display a unique USDA label that highlights its percentage of biobased content. The following SYNLawn products have earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product Label: • SYNRenew with 47% biobased content. […]
In Brazil, a USDA Foreign Agriculture Service GAIN report says that despite lower ethanol demand due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, investment interest in corn-based ethanol domestically continues to grow. For 2020/21, corn-based ethanol production is seen at 2.5 billion liters from 16 currently operating facilities including both corn-only and flex-plants co-located at sugarcane […]
In California, National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with state corn organizations, ethanol partners and the auto industry, are working with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to conduct vehicle testing at the University of California at Riverside (UCR). E15 in the California market is important to growing ethanol demand. CARB is a part of the California […]
In Indonesia, Wärtsilä has received contracts for a 128 MW power plant in Indonesia. The plant has been ordered by PT Freeport Indonesia, one of the world’s leading mining companies. The extended engineered equipment delivery order comprises fourteen Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel generating sets. The order for eight generating sets was placed in June 2020, and […]
In Pennsylvania, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded up to $5.5 million in clean diesel funding to the Mid-Atlantic Region organizations to support their clean diesel programs and projects to reduce emissions. The organizations include the Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association, Inc. (MARAMA), for a $1.7 million award, the Virginia Port Authority for a […]
In Canada, Greenfield Global Inc will acquire the 48 million gallon per-year Corn Plus ethanol facility in Winnebago, Minnesota. The Corn Plus facility makes ethanol for the purpose of blending into gasoline and has been shuttered since September 2019. Greenfield Global’s addition of a United States based-corn ethanol facility provides the Company with a larger […]
In Australia, AgFunder reports that Vectr Ventures together with Maropost Ventures have invested in Provectus Algae’s $3.25 million seed funding round. The company develops technology to increase the commercial viability of algae production, achieving 200% increase in productivity levels with its second prototype that was the result of two years of R&D and led to […]
In Missouri, CoverCress, Inc., announced a new collaboration with the Salk Institute to improve plant yield, soil health and soil organic carbon storage in cover crops via cutting-edge technologies developed by the Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI). HPI is an innovative, scalable and bold approach to address climate change by turbocharging plants’ ability to capture […]
In the Netherlands, Platts reports European T2 ethanol prices fell to Eur646/cu m on Tuesday, the lowest seen in three months, after hitting an all-time high just a month before at Eur840/cu m as European markets go into stricter COVID-19 pandemics. The restrictions are expected to shrink gasoline and therefore ethanol demand in the short […]
