In Iowa, the board of Plymouth Energy has decided to suspend production until further notice due to negative margins, absent a deal with China or a serious pullback in production. All existing corn contracts on the books will be honored. An orderly and timely process will take place to honor all purchase contracts of grain […]
In the UK, ICIS reports that high European ETBE prices last week encouraged producers to boost supplies sufficiently that they have reversed this week, falling $18/mt to $962-$1,012/mt in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp area. Already there is talk of producing cellulosic ETBE from Eni’s proposed facility in Piedmont, but as it won’t be online until at least […]
In Brazil, the International Council on Clean Transportation is calling on the country to halt its annual increases to the biodiesel mandate and instead incentivize the use of alternative biodiesel feedstocks without ILUC impacts, such as used cooking oil, which could yield an additional 350 million liters of biodiesel through improved collection practices. In the […]
In Iowa, Reuters reports that the CEO of Green Plains feels the ethanol industry is at its breaking point between a drop in ethanol export demand from China due to the ongoing US-Sino trade war and continued issuance of hardship waivers for small oil refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard. He said that some ethanol […]
In Malaysia, as part of bilateral dialogue with the European Union over the past three months, in an attempt to resolve the impasse over palm oil’s indirect land use change impacts and future ban into the European market, the country is urging the European Union to accept and recognize the MSPO certification scheme as one […]
In New York state, researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute have found that compounds from an unlikely source—microscopic soil roundworms—could protect crops from pests and pathogens without using toxic pesticides. As described in research published in the May 2019 issue of Journal of Phytopathology, these compounds helped protect major crops from various pathogens, and thus have […]
In Washington, Reuters reports that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency told a closed-door hearing last week that hardship waivers have not created demand destruction for ethanol. Despite President Trump ordering the Cabinet to review the hardship waiver program and how waivers are granted, the EPA administrator does not appear interested to alter how […]
By Mark Riedy, Partner and Head of Energy Team and Eddie Wang, Senior Associate, both from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Special to The Digest The recently-established Opportunity Zone Program offers developers, including start-up technology companies attempting to develop and commercialize new technologies in the energy, chemical, and infrastructure industries, an exciting, new opportunity to […]
In a new report from the International Energy Agency, the IEA’s executive director Dr. Fatih Birol writes, “This is a critical year for hydrogen. It is enjoying unprecedented momentum around the world and could finally be set on a path to fulfill its longstanding potential as a clean energy solution.” We agree, though the path […]
Cloud based fermentation – sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s real. Culture Biosciences’ vision is to make biomanufacturing a digital experience: they want running bioreactors to be as easy as running code in a data center. In order to do this, they’ve developed a digital biomanufacturing platform to enable scientists to […]
