In Argentina, La Nación newspaper reports that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) producing biodiesel are upset by the government’s decision to freeze biodiesel prices for another 90 days, saying that the ruling is an arbitrary, discriminatory, and unilateral move by the government that will negatively impact producers, perhaps even causing them to shut down. Freezing […]
In South Dakota, Ringneck Energy’s CEO told Platts in an interview that the 80 million gallon per year facility expects to weather the current storms in the ethanol market that has forced more than a dozen ethanol plants to idle thanks to its modern technology and affordable feedstock. Many plants have suffered from negative ethanol […]
In Washington, Courthouse News reports that a DC district court ruled last Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency was right in its rulemaking of the Renewable Fuel Standard, ruling against complaints by both the oil industry who said blending mandates for 2014-2016 were too high as well as the biofuel industry who said they were […]
In India, Indian biomass-based energy company Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd. (PRESPL), has raised private equity investment from Shell. responsAbility was the first to invest during the company’s ‘Series-A’ in Sep 2013, followed by a ‘Series-B’ investment from Neev Fund in April 2019. With this follow-on fund investment by Shell, the ‘Series-B’ round of […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that despite a trade mission to China recently, including visiting COFCO who owns four Brazilian sugar mills, the country isn’t likely to see a large boost in Chinese ethanol demand last year. One key reason is that a COFCO official said China wasn’t likely to implement the E10 blending mandate as […]
In New York state, during its inaugural year, the Earth BioGenome Project has established a foundation that will carry it toward completion of Phase I of the project – the sequencing of a representative species of each of the approximately 9,300 known eukaryotic taxonomic families of plants, animals, protozoa, fungi, and other microbes in the […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that the country has decided to allow tariff-free imports of US-origin ethanol under the same quota conditions as the past handful of years, but the trade regime has only been extended for a single year rather than two years like the last renewal. The current regime expired on Saturday. On the […]
In hand we now have the latest earnings reports from what you might call the 8 Pathfinders – eight publicly traded stocks whose second quarter results offer insights into the health and performance of the advanced bioeconomy as 2019 heads towards its closing crescendos. Our 8 Pathfinders – In the world of global renewable diesel […]
There’s nothing like a former fed to give a unique perspective on federal programs and policy. Paul Argyropoulos, President of Policy Nexus Advisors, gave this illuminating overview of what he thinks the future holds, influencing factors and drivers that can change the whole planes, trains and automobiles biofuels scene in so many ways, some thoughts […]
Cielo isn’t just the topic of our top story today, it’s a potentially huge transformer in the waste to renewable fuels space. Check out The Digest’s slides to Cielo to see how they are aiming to take some of the billions of tons of waste globally each year and transform it into renewable diesel. Cielo’s […]
