In Illinois, Northwestern University synthetic biologists have developed a new rapid-prototyping system to accelerate the design of biological systems, reducing the time to produce sustainable biomanufacturing products from months to weeks. The new platform, called in vitro Prototyping and Rapid Optimization of Biosynthetic Enzymes (iPROBE), provides a quick and powerful design-build-test framework to discover optimal […]
In France, International Energy Agency presented a Sustainable Recovery Plan focusing on a series of actions that can be taken over the next three years to revitalize economies and boost employment while making energy systems cleaner and more resilient. Set out in a Special Report on Sustainable Recovery from the IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook […]
By Peter Sopher, Senior Associate at Clean Energy Ventures Special to The Digest Automobile manufacturers such as Nissan, Chevy, Tesla, BYD, and others have successfully elevated battery-powered electric cars, vans, and even buses from being niche, expensive, and poor-performing transportation solutions to becoming mainstream and affordable with marked improvements in performance and range. But a […]
Gevo is developing a platform to fund expansion projects in the next phase of its unique, next generation renewable fuels business. Their commercial-scale facilities are converting agricultural, forestry and other feedstocks to high value, low pollutant, low carbon substitutes for gasoline and jet fuel. So they check alot of boxes, but is that all? Get the […]
In California, three new projects by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Joint BioEnergy Institute, could make agriculture both more sustainable and more profitable by aiming to quantify and reduce the carbon intensity of agriculture, including the farming of biofuel feedstocks such as corn, soy, and sorghum, while also increasing yield. Crop-based biofuels […]
In New York, Reuters reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received 52 new petitions for retroactive biofuel blending waivers that, if granted, would help bring oil refiners into compliance with a court ruling this year. The new pending applications for blending exemptions are for compliance years 2011 through 2018. “The waivers exempt oil refiners […]
In France, Deinove, a biotech company that uses a disruptive approach to develop innovative antibiotics and bio-based active ingredients for cosmetics, issued a 3rd tranche of notes convertible into new shares as part of the agreement reached on July 9, 2019 with the European Select Growth Opportunities Fund. The objectives of this issue for DEINOVE […]
In California, Genomatica celebrated winning the prestigious 2020 Green Chemistry Challenge Award — given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — for its Brontide natural butylene glycol. The win for Brontide marks the third EPA award held by Genomatica and makes them one of only four companies to win the award three times in […]
In Finland, Neste and Jokey, a manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging, started collaborating with a target to develop the market for rigid packaging from sustainable renewable and recycled materials for food and non-food applications, including renewable components derived from biomass and various waste and residue oils and fats. By promoting the use of more sustainable […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production rose 0.5%, or 4,000 barrels per day (b/d), to 841,000 b/d—equivalent to 35.32 million gallons daily and a twelve-week high, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. However, production remains tempered due to COVID-19 disruptions, coming in 22.2% below the same week in 2019. The four-week average […]
