In Texas, Pohl & Holmes, Inc., a California-based almond hulling and shelling services provider, recently switched their vehicles to running exclusively on Neste MY Renewable Diesel. Owner David Pohl credits Neste MY Renewable Diesel with greatly improving the performance of their fleet’s 36 trucks. “After one year on Neste MY, we have seen an overall […]
In Canada, Advanced Biofuels Canada released their annual Biofuels in Canada report, which catalogs biofuel blending rates, biofuel types, and feedstocks utilized at the provincial level. Greenhouse gas reductions are assessed annually by fuel type, with estimates of biofuels impact on consumer fuel expenditures, GHG abatement costs, and the impact of taxation policies on lower […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that global 2018/19 soybean production is estimated significantly higher than the previous month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecast for the U.S. considerably, now expecting a bumper crop. The reason is an unexpected strong increase in U.S. crop expectations for 2018. According to the outlook, the U.S. could harvest […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production averaged 1.072 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 45.02 million gallons daily, —as plants cut back by 27,000 b/d (2.5%) from the week before, according to government data released and analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Still, the four-week average for ethanol production reached a 33-week high of 1.077 million b/d […]
In Virginia, researchers from the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University discovered a proprietary process that can make algae applications scalable for commercialization through partnerships with the private sector. The technology involves extracting the proteins from algae in a scalable and inexpensive way to make it viable for industrial use, as […]
In Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is planning on relocating the Economic Research Service and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture out of Washington, D.C. by the end of 2019 as part of a reorganization of his department. Scientists are concerned over the plan to overhaul the two federal offices […]
With many people heading to the beach for their last hurrah of the season and red tide alerts along parts of Florida’s coast and seemingly, everywhere you turn, marine pollution is on the mind of late. While we can’t get the images of hundreds of dead fish out of your mind, we can at least […]
Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel facilities in the US and India, and is upgrading the plants using patented technology to produce lower carbon, higher value advanced biofuels and chemicals using lower cost, non-food energy sources and feedstocks. Of special interest is the Aemetis cellulosic refinery using agricultural […]
In India, as part of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s initiative to collect used cooking oil for biodiesel production, 64 companies at 101 different locations will participate in the program. By 2020, the program hopes to collect 2.2 billion liters of UCO that do not meet the recently published standards for UCO […]
In Kansas, the availability of water is the key issue at hand for both local residents and VNA who is promoting the development of a biofuel plant in Sumner County. Meeting with the county’s planning commission at a public hearing, the company said it had no interest in the site if there was the 50 […]
