In Zimbabwe, Bulawayo 24 reports that a member of Parliament is going to court to fight the national 20% ethanol blending mandate that still supports a supply monopoly for the controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach’s Green Fuel. The complaint claims that Green Fuel is paid $1.30 per liter of ethanol whereas the global average is around […]
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In Illinois, Reuters reports that Green Plains has filed a class action lawsuit against Archer Daniels Midland with the U.S. District Court of Nebraska, saying that the company not only manipulated the price of ethanol at its Argo terminal to increase its profit but that it was done with the knowledge of senior ADM executives. […]
In Brazil, the Spanish news agency EFE reported Petrobras announced it has successfully completed the performance tests of a renewable diesel that it developed from vegetable oils and says that it is much more ecological and efficient than traditional biodiesel. The company reported that the large-scale tests with the new fuel were completed last Saturday […]
In Nevada, supersonic aircraft company Aerion and Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) announced they are working together to develop solutions for carbon neutral supersonic air travel. The companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore ways in which CE’s synthetic fuel – made from carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from the atmosphere, water, and clean […]
In New Jersey, DTN reports that Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production has continued to increase in light of growing demand for fuel, reaching a 16-week high at 931,000 bpd during the second week of July. But even with higher production and a 3.6% drop in demand, stocks were still drawn down for the […]
In Brazil, Platts reports mills are favoring hydrous ethanol production over anhydrous with 7.18 billion liters of hydrous produced this season through July 1. Conversely, only 2.82 billion liters of anhydrous was produced during the same period, 13% less than last year. Sugar mills have switched to more sugar production rather than ethanol because of […]
In Indonesia, Reuters reports Pertamina has successfully produced renewable diesel from 100% palm oil at its Dumai refinery. The facility has a 1,000 barrel per day production capacity. The company said it has now demonstrated the technical capacity of its technology using proprietary catalysts developed by its researchers, a catalytic cracking process and hydrogen gas, […]
In Denmark, researchers have succeeded in combining two known technologies so that more biofuel can be produced from the same amount of biomass. In the project led by DTU, it is the combination of thermal gasification of biomass and electrolysis that is utilized for the production of biofuel. An electrolysis cell (solid oxide electrolysis cell, […]
In Washington, as part of Sierra Club’s and Earthjustice’s campaign to “electrify everything” this week, the groups released a report that takes aim at gas utilities who embrace renewable natural gas as a method of deflecting pushes toward building electrification. Specifically, the report argues that RNG is not a viable alternative to electrification in efforts […]
