In California, Los Angeles-based Arensis announced the financial close of $17 million in debt funding from Hadrian’s Wall Secured Investments Limited (HWSIL), a London Stock Exchange listed fund. The funding was secured for renewable energy facilities in the UK, expanding the company’s growth and global operations. Arensis provides the first truly decentralized hardware/software IOT based […]
In Washington, in an effort to expand the market for domestic agriculture products, reduce harmful emissions, and provide consumers with lower cost fuel choices, National Farmers Union, Farmers Union Enterprises and the Urban Air Initiative announced they have formed a strategic alliance to expand the use of American-grown biofuels. The three groups intend to pursue […]
In North Dakota, officials will break ground on the Red River Biorefinery Wednesday in Grand Forks that will produce ethanol from half a million metric tons of sugarbeet waste annually with the intention of selling the fuel into the California and Canadian markets where low GHG fuels provide a higher return. The facility is expected […]
In Illinois, Platts reports that ethanol plants are having difficulty securing trucks to haul ethanol from plants in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and elsewhere to major hubs for blending and transportation due to competition for truck haulage. Near-record ethanol production has compounded the situation, making it difficult as storage units at facilities fill up without the […]
In Delaware, team of researchers at the University of Delaware’s Center for Catalytic Science and Technology (CCST) has discovered a novel two-step process to increase the efficiency of carbon dioxide (CO2) electrolysis, a chemical reaction driven by electrical currents that can aid in the production of valuable chemicals and fuels. Whereas direct CO2 electrolysis is […]
In Indonesia, the Jakarta Post says the local biodiesel industry is calling for clear regulations of how the new B20 blending mandate recently announced by the president will be implemented from September 1, specifically production allocations because the country produces about 12 billion liters of biodiesel but only 2 billion liters of B20 are required […]
The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of significant product and service advances. For now, we’re going to be tracking these on a weekly basis to keep pace with the changes. Here are the top innovations for the week […]
In Minnesota, the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) announced the official release of a White Paper entitled “The Case for Properly Valuing the Low Carbon Benefits of Corn Ethanol,” coinciding with a general session panel at the 31st annual ACE conference in Minneapolis which highlighted the paper in a discussion on updates to lifecycle modeling […]
In Zimbabwe, an Egyptian entrepreneur is looking to invest $140 million into a facility that will convert 800 metric tons of MSW into biodiesel and electricity owned and operated by a local start-up, Tawanda Energy. Electricity will be sold to the national grid at 14 cents per kW and biodiesel will be sold at 70 […]
In Hawaii, clean, secure, and uninterrupted power is at the core of Hawaiian Electric’s 50-megawatt Schofield Generating Station. Wärtsilä has signed a Maintenance and Operational advisory agreement for the power plant, located on the island of Oahu, 40 kilometers from Honolulu. The agreement will help the utility to maximize the availability and efficiency of the […]
