In Washington, Senator Chuck Grassley criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal for biofuel blending in 2019 and hinted the hardship waivers granted by the agency may be illegal. “Buried in this proposal is the alarming admission that Administrator Pruitt has already cut at least 2.25 billion gallons of conventional biofuels from the Renewable Fuel Standard. […]
In the UAE, McDonald’s UAE announced that its logistics fleet of biodiesel delivery trucks have clocked a whopping 10,000,000 kilometers since the launch of the initiative seven years ago, saving 8,563 tons of carbon dioxide in the process and contributing to improve air quality in the country. Since July 2011, McDonald’s UAE’s logistics fleet has […]
In Brazil, hydrous ethanol production reached its second-highest level since the record was set in 2010/11 at 1.44 billion liters during the first half of June. Anhydrous production hit 700.58 million liters. Hydrous ethanol sales from sugar mills soared during the first half of June to 907.07 million liters, more than 66% higher than the […]
In South Africa, Reuters reports that local social enterprise Fetola, WWF, and SkyNRG have teamed up to use $1.4 million in funding from the European Union’s SWITCH Africa Green Program to develop aviation fuel from waste biomass. Called the Waste to Wing program, it aims to find other alternative feedstocks for producing jet fuel in […]
In India, the government agreed to boost heavy molasses-based ethanol prices by 4 cents per liter in an effort to help shore up the poor finances of sugarcane mills suffering from high cane prices, also imposed by the government. Ethanol prices were also set for B molasses and cane juice-based ethanol at 68 cents per […]
The meanest, nastiest, ornierest, heat-seeking organism ever found that munches biomass and other microbes that got a booster via the DOE’s $40M grants for advanced microbes R&D. And aromatics without the mess, a sky-vacumming organism and much more. As we reported last week here, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $40 million in funding for […]
By Michael A. Fatigati, Special to The Digest It’s not news to the readers of Biofuels Digest, but it bears repeating that we find ourselves in an age of heightened awareness of the impact of drawing down the fossil carbon savings account of our precious blue orb as quickly as we’ve managed to do in recent […]
High quality biomethane from biomass through gasification? A Swedish plant is now a first for injecting biomethane into the national grid. That’s the Gothenburg Biomass Gasification Project (GoBiGas), and its the suject of this illuminating deck on the project’s promise and progress, as presented by IEA Bioenergy in their webinar series by Prof. Henrik Thunman of Chalmers […]
In Brazil, San Martinho announced a whopping 65% of the 20.6 million metric tons of sugarcane it plans to crush this season will be turned into ethanol, producing 465,000 cubic meters of anhydrous ethanol, about 6.5% higher than last year, while hydrous ethanol production will increase more than 42% to 663,000 cubic meters. Its anticipated […]
In Vietnam, the Ministry of Science & Technology along with other local partners will invest $100 million in a carbolosic biomass treatment plant that will produce aviation biofuels and other bioproducts from waste. The technology was developed by the University of Central Florida and incorporates cellulose hydrolysis into low cost modules that allow flexibility in […]
