In Vermont, the state’s only member of the House of Representatives continues to push for the removal of ethanol from the Renewable Fuel Standard, this time snowmobiling with the state’s snow travellers association to demonstrate how small engines can allegedly be damaged by ethanol. He refers to the law as being a flop despite its […]
Back in the 1940s when my father and his folks lived on Garcia Avenue in San Francisco, in a part of town the upwardly mobile might refer to as Forest Hill and everyone else called West Portal, around the corner lived the San Francisco County district attorney, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, and his young family. […]
In this extraordinary white paper on value and values, a team at Propel Fuels — Rob Elam, Will Faulkner, Chris LaPlante, Parker Chase look at the problem of fairness in carbon policy. They write: Through the flagship Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, Californians have received $448 million in state rebates for purchases of EVs (hybrids too), with a […]
In Myanmar, Myanmar Sugar Development has secured $20 million for the first phase of its sugar mill project in Kathar township, Sagaing Region that will produce 35,000 liters of ethanol in addition to 500 metric tons of white sugar daily. The second phase will require another $20 million in investment and the development company is […]
In California, E-Fuel Corporation released for preorder sales the new Personal Energy System (PES) that will begin shipping second quarter of 2018. The PES is the industry’s first hydrous fuel combustion powered generator (genset) that can power and use the excess waste energy to heat homes or offices without the local power and heating fuel […]
In Oregon, Red Rock Biofuels got good news on Monday when the governor approved $245 million in bonds that will allow the company’s planned aviation biofuel plant thanks to overwhelming support by state level legislators and business groups. The facility set for Lake County intends to use 175,000 tons of forestry waste as feedstock as […]
In India, the biodiesel industry be able to breathe a sigh of relief come January 18 when the Goods and Services Tax Council is set to meet to discuss lowering GST for a number of categories including biodiesel vehicles. Those vehicles are currently taxed at 28%, a level seen a frustrating the growth of the […]
In Argentina, despite challenges in the biodiesel export market with the US and European Union, the country still managed to break its export record in 2017 at 1.68 million metric tons, according to data from Centro de Estudios del Sistema Agroalimentario (Ceagro) at the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora. However, more than 1 million […]
In India, the lack of an established supply chain for used cooking oil has impeded the growth of UCO biodiesel, something that must be addressed if more producers are to pop up around the country or if producers want to increase their production. The main competitor for non-edible UCO are soap makers who pay a […]
In India, the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology has teamed with the Center for International Scientific Cooperation of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran in a joint call for research proposals on a wide range of topics including microbial biotechnology with an emphasis on cellulosic […]
