In Washington, Reuters reports that Senator Chuck Grassley has taken to Twitter to tell the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator to clean up his act on hardship waivers under the Renewable Fuels Standard or to start looking for another job. The senator has held back from supporting calls for the administrator’s resignation despite pressure from other […]
From Southern California the report has arrived that Verdezyne is winding down as a company, and today is the last day of operations. The low oil price environment has claimed another victim among the renewable chemical pure-plays. Why oil prices have doomed more chemical players than fuels In a nutshell, there’s no Renewable Chemicals Standard […]
“The fuels market is about the largest in the world,” says Terry Mazanec. “Each succeeding generation of inspired inventors and entrepreneurs, with visions of immense profits dancing in their heads, have taken on the challenge of energy. Now the world turns its lonely eyes to biofuels. The attraction of developing an alternative fuel source that […]
In New York, Pegasus Capital Advisors, Company Management and minority shareholders have sold their equity interests in Pure Biofuels Del Peru, SAC to a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation. PBF, as the third largest fuels importer in Peru, maintains a leading supply platform with a base of over 500 customers, including retailers, miners, and airlines. […]
In France, Reuters reports that Cristalco will shut down its 350,000 cu m ethanol plant in Reims for three weeks during June for annual maintenance. It typically shuts down for two weeks of maintenance but the bearish market has led the company to choose to keep production offline for an additional week in hopes of […]
In Washington, a source told Reuters that in addition to generating RINs from ethanol exports, further adjustments to the Renewable Fuel Standard would include a reduction of hardship waivers for refiners that help them to skirt their compliance with the biofuel blending mandate. Volumes that are waived would instead be redistributed to other refiners rather […]
In Kansas, the new biorefinery under development in Colwich as a joint venture between ICM and The Andersons is looking to shift its typical market completely, by offering a higher quality DDG without fiber—as the fiber was removed earlier in the process to produce about 10% of the 70 million gallon facility’s total ethanol production […]
In Nebraska, the new Sapp Bros. biodiesel blending facility will hold its grand opening in Columbus on May 24. The new blending facility is located five miles from the Columbus NuStar terminal. Fuel suppliers can load diesel on their transport at the terminal, then load biodiesel at the Sapp Bros. terminal to the desired blend level. […]
In Indonesia, Reuters reports that the president is rolling out an extension of a new program started this year to help regenerate small oil palm plantations. The first phase of the project was for 20,000 ha but he is not calling for 185,000 ha of smallholder plantations to be rejuvenated. More than 5.6 million ha […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $3 million in funding for advanced biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI). DOE has selected two projects from the University of Tennessee and Northwestern University that will receive between $1 million to $2 million each. Integrating science […]
