In Sweden, St1 has awarded ÅF Pöyry with engineering assignment for a new renewable fuel production unit investment project. The new plant will be built in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is the largest single investment in St1’s history. The investment is estimated to approximately 1.5 billion SEK. ÅF Pöyry’s services includes all engineering disciplines, procurement and […]
In California, the California Air Resources Board has issued a Product Alert for Fuel Additives under the Alternative Diesel Fuels (ADF) Regulation. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has conducted emissions testing that showed that tested additives failed to effectively mitigate to the regulatory standard. These results raise significant questions both as to the specific […]
In India, Hempcorp recently secured a 10,000 acre site set to become the world’s largest hemp plantation. This comes following the legalization of hemp cultivation within the state of Uttarakhand, India. The company will be managing operations in Uttarakhand and has plans for a variety-based product chain from hemp. The product chain will vary from […]
In Belgium, Jan De Nul Group has begun to carry out dredging work in the Benelux with 100% renewable fuel. With this, the world player is further committing itself to immediately and considerably reducing its CO₂ emissions. Trailing suction hopper dredger Alexander von Humboldt will from now on sail on renewable biofuel from certified and […]
In California, NBC reports that following the major fire at NuStar’s ethanol tanks caused by an explosion that may have been the result of earthquakes earlier in the day is prompting the county supervisors to look at stronger oversight of petrochemical tank farms. There are six such tank farms in Contra Costa County where NuStar’s […]
In Indonesia, Reuters reports that the national biodiesel association expects increased demand during the first half of the year to result in “very little” exports during the period compared to the 2 million metric tons expected to be exported in 2019, but production and therefore exports could increase during the second half of the year […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that soybean area and output in Germany has surged 43% to 84,100 tons, taking a step towards closing up the EU’s top producers, Italy, Romania and France. According to Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (mbH) (AMI), significant amounts of soybeans have only been grown in Germany since 2015. Back then, 12,000 hectares of land […]
In Virginia, a report by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions takes a close look at using carbon emissions as a feedstock to more efficiently decarbonize economies around the world and identifies an opportunity for algae. C2ES published “Carbon Utilization–A Vital and Effective Pathway for Decarbonization” to examine how carbon utilization processes not associated […]
In Texas, ExxonMobil and Fraunhofer USA are accepting applications for its newest TechBridge Challenge, the Designed2Scale Challenge, until November 15th for new technologies in algae and microalgae for biofuels. Fraunhofer TechBridgewill award up to $50,000 in prototyping, demonstration, and/or validation services from Fraunhofer R&D network to selected teams. Solutions of interest include: Technologies and strategies […]
In India, the government’s Forest Department is encouraging entrepreneurs to set up pine needle-based industrial units for biofuel pellets, composite boards, paper making, briquettes and other uses, and will help supply the raw material in order to encourage large-scale removal of pine needles which has been causing forest fire issues. The government hopes it will […]
