In Washington, new analysis of vehicle owner’s manuals and warranty statements by the Renewable Fuels Association reveals that nearly all new 2020 automobiles are explicitly approved by the manufacturer to use gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol (E15). However, RFA’s annual review also shows automakers are offering far fewer model year 2020 flex fuel vehicles (FFVs) […]
In Spain, Reuters reports that Acciona has won an engineering contract to build the first HVO plant in Paraguay, the new ECB plant recently announced that will also produce aviation biofuel. The facility will use Honeywell UOP and Crown Iron Works technologies. Funding raising for the $800 million project was outsourced to Barclays Bank Plc […]
In Indonesia, Antara news agency reports that the government is looking to team up with Mexico on joint research into biodiesel production in the Latin American country. Indonesia has offered to help Mexico control oil palm diseases while Mexico is looking at other biodiesel feedstock options as well including jatropha and castor. With Indonesia ramping […]
In Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz, Chair of the National Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan announced the following appointments to the Governor’s Council on Biofuels. Walz recently established the Governor’s Council on Biofuels by Executive Order 19-35 to recommend proposals to foster growth in the biofuels industry and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “It […]
In Finland, The Ham Trick campaign (Kinkkutemppu in Finnish) will be executed once again to demonstrate circular economy in a concrete way. For the fourth year in a row in Finland, ham waste fat and other waste fats from Christmas dishes can be recycled for the production of Neste MY Renewable Diesel™. Last year, 185,000 […]
In California, Amyris, Inc. announced that it has entered into a consulting agreement with John Ziegelman, formerly a senior portfolio manager at Wolverine Asset Management, one of the company’s top 15 shareholders. Ziegelman has over 30 years’ experience investing in and advising small-cap public companies. In addition to his time with Wolverine, Ziegelman has held […]
In Tennessee, technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and scaled up by Vertimass LLC to convert ethanol into fuels suitable for aviation, shipping and other heavy-duty applications can be price-competitive with conventional fuels while retaining the sustainability benefits of bio-based ethanol, according to a new analysis. ORNL worked with […]
In Washington, a letter to President Trump, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem asked him to enforce a provision of the Clean Air Act that requires the reduction and elimination of toxic carcinogenic aromatics from gasoline. This requirement has been largely ignored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for decades. “This […]
From California the jury’s come in for Vertimass. We received word of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, which summarizes key attributes of Vertimass’ unique technology for the conversion of alcohols into hydrocarbons which are compatible for blending with jet, gasoline, and diesel fuels. […]
4.5 billion years ago – that’s when the earth was created. But Corbion is busy creating some life changing things of their own with their food ingredients, biochemicals and innovative biotech platforms. During her presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco, Jill Kauffman Johnson, Head of Global Market Development, Algae Ingredients at Corbion shared the […]
