In California, Anaergia has been awarded a C$43.8 million design-build contract by the East County Advanced Water Purification Joint Powers Authority in San Diego, CA. This agreement extends Anaergia’s partnership with the JPA and will see the Company design, construct, commission and start-up a turnkey, state-of-the-art renewable power generation facility that converts organic waste into […]
In California, Erg Bio has closed a $6.5 million seed round led by Azolla Ventures, with participation from Chevron Technology Ventures, Freeflow, Plug and Play and strategic angel investors. The funding will enable Erg Bio to scale its Aspire™ Technology, a proprietary low-temperature pretreatment and catalytic platform, that aims to transform agricultural and forestry wastes […]
In California, West Biofuels celebrated the official ribbon cutting for Hat Creek Bioenergy, a biomass-to-energy facility which the company constructed and is operating. This flagship facility represents years of collaboration with local, regional and statewide partners and converts forest biomass into renewable power, supporting forest stewardship and providing clean energy directly to the local electrical […]
In California, OroCarbo has selected Haffner Energy’s SYNOCA® 20 MW module for integration into a 100 ton/day biomethanol project in California, using Maverick Synfuels’ syngas-to-methanol conversion technology. The initial contract focuses on the project’s Carbon Intensity (CI) study, to be conducted by an independent third party, marking the first milestone in the collaboration. Project developer OroCarbo […]
In California, as the California Air Resources Board (CARB) prepares to hold a Biofuels and Land Use Change Public Forum this week, a comprehensive new report from Life Cycle Associates, Advances in Estimation of Land Use Change Emissions Associated with Ethanol, shows that CARB’s decade-old estimate of hypothetical indirect land use change (ILUC) associated with ethanol is obsolete […]
In California, cultivated meat maker Mission Barns has sold its pork for the first time at an exclusive dinner at San Francisco hot spot Fiorella. The Sunset District dining experience featured meatballs with Italian herbs and chilli, as well as in a Sicilian-inspired dish with raisins and pignoli, cooked by chef Brandon Gillis. Applewood-smoked bacon […]
In California, SandboxAQ recently announced the release of AQCat25-EV2, a novel quantitative AI model trained on the AQCat25 dataset, representing an advancement in computational catalyst discovery. AQCat25-EV2 enables researchers to accelerate the discovery of catalysts for applications in energy, chemical production, agriculture, automotive and consumer goods with high speed and accuracy. Novel catalyst discovery will […]
In California, Generate Capital, PBC along with Fiera Infrastructure Private Debt, announced the closing of a $43 million inaugural financing for Generate Upcycle’s North American anaerobic digestion (AD) portfolio. The portfolio, which includes five upgraded RNG assets across Ontario, Canada and Upstate New York, is expected to deliver approximately 1 million GJ per year of […]
In California, Genomatica has entered into a new partnership with Sojitz Corporation to significantly accelerate the commercialization of plant-based nylon-6 based on Geno’s underlying proprietary technology. Sojitz has made a strategic financial investment to accelerate time-to-market, while also contributing its commercial and business expertise. Nylon-6 is one of the most widely used materials in the world. Traditionally produced […]
In California, Pacific Harbor Line has entered into a development agreement with Remora, a Michigan-based climate technology startup that is pioneering mobile carbon capture for freight rail and trucking. PHL, which provides rail transportation, maintenance and dispatching services to both Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, is also an investor in Remora, and Peter A. […]
