In Washington, unsurprisingly the biofuels industry has overwhelmingly come out in opposition of the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice’s proposed deal with Philadelphia Energy Solutions to offer a bail out on its RIN compliance. The National Biodiesel Board called on the DOJ to reconsider its proposed settlement allowing PES Holdings to escape the vast majority […]
According to BIO, the global economic value today of the biobased economy – including industrial biotechnology, renewable chemicals and polymers, biofuels, enzymes and biobased materials – is $355.28 billion. And looking at the new USDA Indicators report and other sources, BIO estimates that the United States generates 58 percent of the global value of biobased […]
You probably knew him first as the VP for Biofuels at Chevron, and later the Program Manager for the DOE Biomass program. Paul Bryan’s a noted consultant on technology development and sometime lecturer in chemical engineering at Berkeley when not on the ABLC stage with the Due Diligence Wolfpack. “I apply my background in industry […]
In Germany, Reuters reports that ADM has decided to mothball its biodiesel plant in Mainz for at least Q2 because it can’t compete with increasing cheap imports that began to surge last September, especially following the ruling last week by the European Court of Justice dropping anti-dumping duties on Argentine and Indonesian biodiesel imports. A […]
In New Zealand, Air New Zealand says that despite talking with 30 companies following its call to source 20 million liters of aviation biofuels last year, no one is scalable at the moment to be able to supply the kinds of volumes the airline is looking for in the medium term. The CEO says that […]
In Louisiana, the Associated Press reports that a barge carrying biodiesel moored on the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans has leaked nearly 10,000 gallons after a wake caused by another vessel slammed the barge into a concrete wall. The leak has since been stopped and measures put in place to absorb the leaked fuel. […]
In Brazil, Platts reports that UNICA figures show hydrous ethanol production during the first half of March jumped 70% on the year to 244 million liters, more than double that produced during the last half of February. With hydrous ethanol prices reaching the highest levels since Platts began tracking them in April 2014, it’s no […]
In India, the US Grains Council is stumping for ethanol market access to supply the country’s E10 blending mandate that it has failed to source locally. The USGC’s local representative says that landed US ethanol would cost about 45 cents per liter compared to 63 cents for domestic ethanol. The country doesn’t currently allow imports […]
In Germany, Renewables Now reports that ethanol production fell to 672,930 metric tons last year, down 8.8% on the year, while consumption also fell to 5.9% of gasoline consumption compared to 6.1% the year prior as ethanol sales fell nearly 2% as E10 demand stagnated. Total ethanol sales reached 1.154 million tons. Second-generation ethanol production […]
In Illinois, researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign are using adding calcium to different corn byproducts and tweaking the solution’s pH in an effort to precipitate organic and inorganic phosphorus compounds in minutes. Doing so would not only create potential additional value using the phosphorus as fertilizer or as supplements for animal feed but […]
