In the UK, Business Green reports that Heathrow Airport’s CEO believes that the aviation industry should have first dibs on limited biofuel resources due to the limited decarbonization options for airlines compared to other types of heavy transport who have more possibilities such as electric and hydrogen. The UK’s airline industry has teamed with supply […]
In Canada, Reuters reports domestic oil refiners are pushing back against plans to decarbonize transportation with the proposed low carbon fuel standard while US refiners who are investing heavily in renewable diesel transitions are looking at opportunities north of the border. Canada’s Suncor Energy had previously announced a project to produce renewable diesel before the […]
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $594,424 in funding for eight undergraduate and graduate student teams from colleges and universities across the country through EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant program, including research on developing a more sustainable concrete made from hemp pulp and controlling algal blooms. The P3 program […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that demand for biodiesel was steady to brisk and the use of biodiesel for blending hit a record at 288,800 tonnes in Germany in July 2020. This translates to an increase of around 27 percent on both the previous month and July 2019. Also, the use of bioethanol for blending increased […]
In Finland, Metsä Fibre Oy, part of the Metsä Group, and AFRY entered into a preliminary agreement for the engineering, project management and site services of the chlorine dioxide plant at the Kemi bioproduct mill in Finland. The project is a continuation of AFRY’s previous basic design of the chlorine dioxide plant. The chlorine dioxide […]
In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience completed the harvest for its 2020 Field Test Program for Camelina and canola trials conducted in the United States and Canada. Yield10’s 2020 Field Test Program is designed to evaluate several novel traits in Camelina and canola, and the Company expects to begin reporting data from the field tests in the […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production scaled back by 2.8%, or 25,000 barrels per day (b/d), to 881,000 b/d—equivalent to 37.00 million gallons daily and the smallest output in fifteen weeks, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association for the week ending September 25. The four-week average ethanol production rate declined 1.2% to […]
In Florida, Transform Materials, a company that uses microwave plasma technology to convert natural gas into acetylene and hydrogen, signed a global licensing agreement with DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. which allows DSM to use the patented Transform technology to produce certain vitamins, carotenoids, and nutritional ingredients, with Transform providing technical support to ensure success of […]
In Belgium, Biorefinery Alco Bio Fuel (ABF), industrial gas supplier Messer Benelux and IJsfabriek Strombeek will continue their efforts to reduce CO2 emissions in Belgium. Together they are investing 10 million euros in a second carbon dioxide recovery unit, located at Alco Bio Fuel in North Sea Port (Ghent). In the spring of 2022, this […]
In Germany, CBF Management GmbH announced the first closing of the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF). ECBF is the first venture fund exclusively focused on the bioeconomy and the circular bioeconomy in Europe. With a target size of EUR250 million, to which the European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed EUR100 million, ECBF will be an […]
