In Washington, Pro Farmer reports Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production broke another record last week at average of 1.196 million barrels per day, well above the levels analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expected of 1.105 million. With the 17 billion bushels of corn produced last season, prices have been very low, providing opportunities for […]
In Belgium, the European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €200 million German scheme to support the production in Canada of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives, known as renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs). These RFNBOs will be imported to Germany and sold in the EU, contributing to the objectives of the […]
In California, NewYork GreenCloud (NYGC) announced the acquisition of the Buena Vista Biomass Power (BVBP) facility in Ione, California. The site will become NYGC’s first large-scale carbon negative AI Factory, integrating biomass-to-pyrolysis energy systems with behind-the-meter, liquid-cooled AI compute. The redevelopment—led jointly by NYGC and BucSha Energy, the project’s biomass-to-pyrolysis engineering partner—will convert the 18MW […]
In Egypt, Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli asserted the Egyptian government’s commitment to supporting the Green Hydrogen Production Project, which is being implemented by Norway’s Scatec in partnership with the Sovereign Fund of Egypt, Orascom Construction and Fertiglobe in the Ain Sokhna Industrial Zone. Egypt Green Hydrogen began partial production in 2023, when it successfully produced […]
In Norway, a new biogas plant at Svalbard Airport, Longyear, was brought online on January 12. With liquid biogas (LBG) as an energy carrier, the airport will have a fossil-free solution for both electricity and heat – and Avinor is taking an important step towards significantly lower emissions from its own operations. The modular energy […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 12,486,207 B2 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent broadens protections for different catalyst combinations and explicitly protects the use of Ethanol-to-Olefins (“ETO”) technology to produce fuels. Gevo is developing ETO with partners LG Chem, Ltd. to deploy Gevo’s next-generation ETO process […]
In Malaysia, the Malaysia Reserve newspaper reports that the Malaysian Palm Oil Board will begin an official reference price for used cooking oil during the first quarter of this year to help support fair trading practices and help small players especially escape price manipulation due to misinformation. Although palm oil is a key feedstock for […]
In Ukraine, Ukrainian private companies exported more than 11.2 million cubic meters of biomethane gaseous biomethane in 2025, according to ExPro estimates. Biomethane exports began in February 2025, when the first Ukrainian company (Vitagro) exported 67,500 cubic meters of biomethane of its own production by the gas transmission system to Slovakia. Before that, biomethane was […]
In Italy, Teleborsa reports Ludoil is currently involved, under exclusive arrangements, in a due diligence process aimed at the evaluation of a possible acquisition of the Priolo Gargallo Refinery. The possible operation “would be part of a long-term industrial strategy, oriented to the protection of the energy security of the Country System, as well as […]
In Spain, Asterion Industrial Partners, an independent investment management firm focused on European mid-market infrastructure, has committed €1.5 billion to its European biomethane platform, ABIO (Asterion Bioenergy), with the ambition of building a leading pan-European player. The investment will support the development and operation of assets across key markets, deploying strategies tailored to local market […]
