In India, the Daily Pioneer newspaper reports that two sugar companies in Uttar Pradesh—Balampur and Pipraich Sugar—will produce ethanol directly from sugarcane juice during the new season starting October 1. The UP government greenlighted the use of sugar juice as ethanol feedstock in October 2020. The state produced nearly 1 billion liters at 72 distilleries […]
In Belgium, a new Oxfam report explores a sugar cane plantation from northern Peru that was supported through Belgian and Dutch investments and is feeding the EU bioethanol market since 2018. It shows how EU policies are fueling land and water grabbing, air pollution, climate change vulnerabilities, food insecurity and social unrest in the Chira […]
In India, the ANI news agency reports the central government has denied Chhattisgarh permission to produce ethanol from rice paddy. The state is a key rice producer with surplus supplies that it says it can use for ethanol production and needs to in order to provide better prices for its rice farmers. The state’s chief […]
In California, two of the five petroleum refineries in the Bay Area have submitted permit applications to modify the facility operation to process alternative feedstocks with the intention of producing “renewable” products. These facilities use the term “renewable” to mean they will be producing fuel and other products by processing non-petroleum feedstocks. Petroleum refineries are […]
In Texas, Ara Partners announced the closing of Ara Fund II with approximately $1.1 billion in capital commitments. The Fund was significantly oversubscribed, exceeding its $650 million initial target and increasing its hard cap. The Fund received commitments from a diverse set of returning and new institutional investors in North America, Europe and Asia, including […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. has received a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for a process that encompasses upgrading ethanol and bio-based alcohols into drop-in, bio-based diesel and jet-fuel products. The USPTO has awarded Gevo U.S. Patent No. 11,078,433 titled “Conversion of Mixtures of C 2 -C 8 Olefins to Jet […]
In Sweden, jointly owned by Setra and Preem, Pyrocell was formed in 2018 based on the business concept of producing bio-oil from sawdust. Production at the groundbreaking plant – Sweden’s first pyrolysis oil plant for biofuels – is now underway. Pyrocell’s plant is located at Setra Kastet sawmill in Gävle on Sweden’s Baltic coast. It […]
In New York state, Buffalo Business First reports Western News York Energy plans to invest $33 million in a major expansion project, allowing the company to distill 15 million gallons of high purity ethanol annually so it can enter the sanitizer market. The company sources most of its corn from within the state and as […]
In Romania, after four years of construction, Romania Insider reports that Clariant plans to complete its EUR140 million cellulosic ethanol facility this year, not only completing construction but also commissioning start up. Around 80,000 metric tons of straw will be collected during this current harvest season from 20 different partners to supply the facility’s startup. […]
In Nebraska, the Associated Press reports that the Sierra Club and Bold Nebraska, an NGO leading the charge against the XL Keystone pipeline, have come out against the proposed carbon dioxide pipelines by Summit Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 Ventures. They claim the risk is too high of leakages, that regulation for this new kind […]
