In Minnesota, International Process Plants has leased its fermentation-based biobased acetone and butanol plant in Little Falls to Nuol Green Chemistry. The 40-million-gallon-per-year facility will play a crucial role in producing advanced biobased chemicals to replace petrochemical products with renewable alternatives. The plant features advanced fermentation systems and extensive utilities, making it an ideal site […]
In Minnesota, Freeborn County Cooperative Oil Company failed to install and upgrade equipment compatible with the fuels it was storing at seven of its convenience stores in Freeborn and Mower counties, according to a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) enforcement investigation. MPCA staff inspections in April 2024 confirmed the company failed to install the ethanol-compatible […]
In Minnesota, the North Dakota Monitor newspaper reports that Minnesota Public Utilities Commission expects to vote December 12 on Summit Carbon Solutions’s planned 28-mile segment in Otter Tail and Wilkin counties to connect Green Plains ethanol plant at Fergus Falls to the planned carbon dioxide pipeline. The company says it has secured easements on 89% […]
In Minnesota, DG Fuels announced the selection of a site for a roughly $5 billion manufacturing facility and hundreds of good jobs in Moorhead, Minnesota, that will produce 193 million gallons per year of low-carbon aviation fuel (SAF) using agricultural and wood waste as feedstock. This news is a notable milestone for the MN SAF […]
In Minnesota, the first 7,000-gallon shipment of blended SAF made from Minnesota/North Dakota-grown winter camelina arrived at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport fueling facility. Delta Air Lines has designated flight DL 2732 from Minneapolis to New York on Sept. 25, 2024, as the symbolic first flight to be fueled in part by SAF from MSP […]
In Minnesota, the state’s plan to lead in Sustainable Aviation Fuel includes the Midwest’s first SAF blending facility, set to open by 2025 at Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend refinery, which will blend up to 30 million gallons of SAF annually. Minnesota’s ambitious SAF plan, led by the GREATER MSP Partnership, is backed by major […]
In Minnesota, Clean Energy Fuels announced the completion of its latest production facility at Ash Grove Dairy in Lake Benton, Minnesota where biogas is converted into approximately 165 MMBtus of renewable natural gas each day. The new facility injects RNG into the interstate natural gas pipeline grid, and is expected to produce up to 480,000 […]
In Minnesota, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) released an environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) for a new facility proposed by Dem-Con that will process organic materials through anaerobic digesters at its environmental campus in Shakopee, Minnesota. The proposed facility includes two anaerobic digesters that will process up to 75,419 tons per year of organic materials […]
In Minnesota, Cargill and the Forever Green Initiative, a research platform in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota, are partnering to study winter camelina and domesticated pennycress. The collaboration will focus on the development of high performing seed varieties and farming techniques adapted for the unique growing […]
In Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz recently announced Minnesota has secured funding that will finance Bioforge Marshall LLC, a 500,000-square-foot biomanufacturing facility in Marshall, Minnesota. The plant, owned by Solugen, a climate technology company focused on minimizing carbon emissions, will utilize Minnesota grown corn to manufacture chemicals usually made from oil, resulting in significantly lower carbon […]
