In Brazil, Reuters reports that the country uses enough ethanol and other renewable energy that its carbon emissions has remained stable over the past year despite the ongoing deforestation that plagues its green reputation with just a 0.3% increase in 2018 over 2017. The energy sector’s emissions dropped 5% while deforestation’s rose 3.6%, but even […]
In New York state, plant scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in their search for solutions to global food production challenges, have doubled the amount of grains that a sorghum plant can yield. Sorghum, one of the world’s most important sources of food, animal feed, and biofuel, is […]
In Washington, the RFS Power Coalition applauded the passage of H.R. 3055 (116), the Senate’s Interior Appropriations bill. The Interior-EPA portion of the spending package includes a provision led by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) requiring the EPA to take swift action on existing eRIN applications: Electric Pathway. The Committee notes the backlog of applications under […]
Nature is an amazing thing. But add human brains and technology and you can get some pretty amazing things too – like a renewable insulating foam wetsuit to make your ocean outings even more in tune with nature. Or how about DEWA and Siemens building the first solar driven hydrogen electrolysis facility? If the plant […]
Novozymes leadership shared their latest results for 2019 with investors last week. Check out this illuminating roadshow presentation that covers their Q3 acceleration that was weaker than expected due to difficult agriculturally-exposed businesses, the ethanol headwinds and other challenges that adversely affected their bioenergy, agriculture and feed sector, the launch of two new products in […]
This week, we reported that St1 has awarded ÅF Pöyry with engineering assignment for a new renewable fuel production unit investment project. The new plant will be built in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is the largest single investment in St1’s history. The investment is estimated to approximately 1.5 billion SEK. ÅF Pöyry’s services includes all engineering disciplines, […]
In Sweden, Volvo Buses will deliver 27 Euro VI buses to Transdev Sweden for regional operations, running on biodiesel. The deal is also the largest single order for electric buses in Europe. Volvo Buses will deliver 157 electric articulated buses to Transdev starting in 2020. The buses will operate on a number of routes in […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. announced it has signed a Development Agreement with Blocksize Capital, a Leading Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, commonly referred to as “Blockchain”) company based in Germany. Originally developed as an underlying branch of the blockchain technology, DLT is an immutable tool that allows tracking of data with a product and the transactions […]
In India, the Hindu newspaper reports that the government announced distilleries producing ethanol from b-heavy molasses won’t need to seek additional environmental permissions in order to expand capacity. The environment minister said the reason was because changing feedstocks to b-heavy molasses from the traditional c-heavy molasses won’t increase the pollution produced and therefore doesn’t need […]
In Belgium, at the behest of the European Council’s Finnish Presidency earlier this year, the European Economic and Social Committee has released an exploratory opinion that shows there is a vast amount of expertise, know-how and human tradition linked to water, aquatic resources and the blue bio-economy in Europe. Nonetheless, with regard to its potential […]
