In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports the government has set its ethanol blending target for the season starting October 1 at 3.62 billion liters. Individual targets for mills as well as requiring a minimum production capacity utilization of 85% are part of the government’s drive to ensure as much ethanol is produced and blended […]
In Nebraska, DTN reports ethanol margins continue to increase as ethanol production remains subdued and stocks are drawn down as blending demand picks up. DTN’s mock ethanol plant saw margins pick up by 4 cents per gallon to 9.4 cents over the past month, while ethanol plants that don’t carry debt would see a 41 […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports President Bolsonaro is stuck between a rock and a hard place on the issue of US ethanol imports, or the sugarcane industry represented by UNICA and his buddy the president of the US. The US ethanol industry wants more access to the Brazilian ethanol market while the Brazilian cane industry wants […]
In Denmark, Alfa Laval, Hafnia, Haldor Topsoe, Vestas, and Siemens Gamesa issued a report “Ammonfuel – an industrial view of ammonia as a marine fuel” providing a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the applicability, scalability, cost, and sustainability of ammonia as a marine fuel. The report describes ammonia as an attractive and low risk choice […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the restrictions in the wake of the corona crisis generated pressure on rapeseed and soybean prices in the first quarter of the calendar year of 2020. However, prices have firmed since then. Starting at the beginning of the 2019/20 crop year, both rapeseed prices in Paris and soybean prices in […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production pared back by 1.4%, or 13,000 barrels per day (b/d), to 918,000 b/d—equivalent to 38.56 million gallons daily, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, but remained 12.2% below the same week in 2019 as a result of the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The four-week […]
In the United Kingdom, Terravesta launched a new animation video to spread the word about building a bio-based future with Terravesta Performance Hybrids, and miscanthus grown from seed rather than the usual rhizomes, allowing it to be upscaled 200 times faster. Terravesta is reducing the world’s dependence on fossil derived fuels and products by utilizing […]
In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., an agricultural bioscience company, signed a three-year non-exclusive research agreement with GDM, a company specialized in plant genetics based in Gibson City, Illinois to evaluate novel yield traits in soybean. Under the agreement, GDM plans to work with Yield10 yield traits within its research and development program for soybean as […]
In California, the Electric Power Research Institute and Gas Technology Institute are embarking on a five-year Low-Carbon Resources Initiative to accelerate the development and demonstration of low-carbon energy technologies. The LCRI is targeting advancements in low-carbon electric generation technologies and low-carbon energy carriers, such as hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic fuels, and biofuels. Seeded with $10 million […]
In California, Phillips 66 plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels. The plant would no longer produce fuels from crude oil, but instead would make fuels from used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils. The Phillips 66 Rodeo Renewed project would produce 680 million gallons annually of […]
