In India, local press reports that BioD Energy sold more than 10 million liters of biodiesel produced from used cooking oil during its first year of operation. Its facility can produce 120,000 liters per day from UCO as well as other feedstocks. Nationally, India produces around 2.2 billion liters of UCO by 2022 and the […]
In Germany, Platts reports that CropEnergies saw its ethanol production fall 6% to 729,000 cu m during the March-November 2019 period, but despite the fall in production, profits tripled during the same period to $78.2 million thanks in increased margins when prices were an average of 22% higher on the year. Part of the drop […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production tapered by 4,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 0.4%, to 1.062 million b/d—equivalent to 44.60 million gallons daily, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels. The four-week average ethanol production rate capped off an eleven-week rise with a 0.2% decrease to 1.069 million b/d, equivalent to an annualized […]
In Washington, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency extended the public comment period to February 10th (originally January 6th) to provide more opportunities for input on their draft regional Clean Fuel Standard to help meet their target of 50% GHG pollution below 1990 levels by 2030. The Clean Fuel Standard would apply to transportation fuels […]
In Germany, Recticel and Covestro are working on raw material technologies from mattress production to end-of-life and beyond in an attempt to make mattresses more sustainable, including the use of CO2 as a building block for flexible foams – a CO2 polyol for mattresses. Recticel was the first company to support the development of Covestro’s […]
In Turkey, Taronis Technologies finalizes a new joint venture entity with a goal to build 100 of Taronis’ patented 300KW Venturi Plasma Arc gasification units for the production of MagneGas metal cutting fuel to serve the Turkish domestic metal cutting market, which, according to Turkish government estimates, is approximately a $200 million annual market. The […]
In Norway, the government proposes to allocate a total of 628 million NOK or $70.6 million USD, for the development of carbon capture and storage. The case will be presented to the Parliament. The government has stated that an investment decision can be made in 2020/2021. The government has already spent large sums on research […]
In Canada, Cielo Waste Solutions Corp. signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Renewable U Halifax Inc. to build, at an estimated cost of $50 Million, a renewable diesel refinery in, or within 150 kilometers of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cielo is expecting to convert 327,360 tonnes of garbage into 163,680,000 liters of renewable fuels annually from […]
In Illinois, Bloomberg is reporting that agrigiant Archer-Daniels-Midland, is underway on talks that would result in the divestiture of its ethanol production plants. Bloomberg disclosed that as many as five companies are discussing a potential joint venture or outright acquisition of ADM’s entire fleet of ethanol dry mills, which most recently topped 1 billion gallons […]
In California, the Toyota motor corp revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future neat Mt. Fuji, Japan, where it will be a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Named the “Woven City,” the community will act as a “living laboratory” where the space will serve as a home to full-time […]
