In Botswana, the Xinhua news agency reports that the government, with the support of the United Nationals Development Program, has launched guidelines to help support domestic and international investors interested in developing biofuel production in the country. Already the country has established a biogas program to promote production from agri waste in the southeastern part […]
In Texas, Reuters reports that Valero says the $1.25 to $1.75 per gallon tax incentives proposed to boost sustainable aviation fuel production under the Build Back Better bill isn’t enough to get the company to convert to SAF from renewable diesel production. The bill aims to support SAF production in order to achieve 20% lower […]
In the UK, Scottish start-up Eco Clean is undertaking a research project with experts from the University of St Andrews to develop a new process that uses by-products from fish farming to produce surfactants – one of the main components in detergents and other industrial and institutional cleaning products. With six-figure funding support from the […]
In California, ReCarbon, an energy and chemicals company that recycles GHGs into energy and decarbonized products such as hydrogen and syngas, closed $25 million in its Series B-1 funding round and welcomed two partners, POSCO, one of the largest steel companies in the world, and GS Holdings Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy and utility company. […]
In Indiana, POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer, completed construction on an addition to its POET Bioprocessing – Portland facility. This addition allows the facility to capture renewable CO2, a co-product of POET’s bioethanol production process, to be sold for commercial use. POET’s renewable CO2 is a part of the all-natural POET Pure line of […]
In Denmark, Haldor Topsoe is the first Danish company to join the Hydrogen Council and hopes its membership will accelerate Power-to-X solutions for the hard-to-abate sectors including steel, cement, mining, and heavy transportation. The Hydrogen Council constitutes the entire value chain within hydrogen and includes companies and industries from around the world, that all have […]
In the Netherlands, Avantium’s shareholders granted the requested approvals for all items on the agenda related to the positive Final Investment Decision on the construction of the world’s first FDCA Flagship Plant taken in December 2021. Avantium expects the FDCA Flagship Plant will be operational in 2024, enabling the commercial launch of PEF from 2024 […]
In France, alternative protein is getting a boost with Ÿnsect, a leader in producing insect-based ingredients, launched ŸNFABRE, the first industrial genomic selection program applied to mass insect farming for alternative food protein. More specifically, the programme brings together a number of fields of expertise and powerful innovations in developing phenotyping tools (biological trait characterization) […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production scaled back by 17,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 1.7%, to 1.035 million b/d, equivalent to 43.47 million gallons daily, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Production was 10.9% above the same week last year, which was affected by the pandemic, and 0.6% more than the […]
In California, Aemetis Biogas has completed an additional seven miles of underground pipeline to transport biogas from five new dairy digesters to the centralized Renewable Natural Gas upgrading facility located at the Aemetis Keyes biofuels plant. Including the four miles of biogas pipeline commissioned in late 2020, Aemetis has now installed more than 11 miles […]
