In the UK, Cargill has reached an agreement with Croda to acquire the majority of its performance technologies and industrial chemicals business for $1.03 billion on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The investment would dramatically expand Cargill’s bioindustrial footprint to better serve industrial manufacturers searching for “greener” ingredient solutions. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is […]
In the UK, the Evening Standard newspaper reports Uber Boat, run by Thames Clipper, will add two new hybrid vessels to its London service. Within the central zone, the boats will run on batteries while outside the zone they will run on biofuel that will also charge the batteries. The first of the two vessels, […]
In India, the Hindu Business Line newspaper reports Swaraj Green Power and Fuel Limited will develop the country’s largest ethanol plant in Phaltan (Maharashtra) using sugarcane juice and Praj’s new biosyrup as feedstock. The plant will produce 500,000 liters of ethanol in the first phase, reaching 1.1 million liters per day in the second phase. […]
In Germany, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers has signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project ‘Hydrogen Holland I’ in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the contract, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will engineer, procure and fabricate a 200 MW electrolysis plant based on their large-scale 20 MW alkaline water electrolysis module. First […]
In Belgium, Biotalys, an agricultural technology company protecting crops and food with protein-based biocontrol solutions, and Olon, a contract development and manufacturing organization, developed a long-term strategic partnership for the manufacturing of Biotalys’ biocontrol products. Relying on its expertise in microbial fermentation, Olon Group will manufacture Biotalys’ biocontrols beginning with Evoca. The partnership is driven […]
In California, marking a first for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, renewable natural gas from Maas Energy’s facilities in Merced began flowing into PG&E’s gas transmission system through a “mid-market” third-party pipeline. This project effectively diverts methane that would have been released into the atmosphere from dairies in Merced County and converts it to RNG, […]
In Denmark, biogas facilities in Denmark have never before supplied as much biogas to the Danish gas system than they did in 2021 and they predict gas networks will use only biogas in 2034. At the end of 2021, biogas injected into the gas system reached a level corresponding to just under 25%, compared to […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production scaled back by 42,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 4.0%, to 1.006 million b/d, equivalent to 42.25 million gallons daily, according to the Renewable Fuels Association. Production was 6.9% above the same week last year, which was affected by the pandemic, but 8.1% less than the same week two years […]
In Washington, D.C., the inaugural 2022–2023 U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office AlgaePrize competition is now open. The AlgaePrize is a new competition which encourages high school through graduate level students to pursue innovative ideas for the development, design, and invention of technologies within the commercial algae value chain. The AlgaePrize, sponsored by the U.S. […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that at around 3.45 million tons, the quantity of biofuel added to diesel in quota year 2020 was approximately 1 million tons higher than the previous record value from 2019. For 2021, UFOP is expecting around 2.6 million tonnes in sales of biodiesel/HVO. The reason for this lower demand is the […]
