In California, Fulcrum executives assailed a report appearing this week in Spanish media alleging $100 million cost overruns and other difficulties in the Sierra Biofuels project near Reno, Nevada. It’s loaded with inaccuracies, Fulcrum vice president Rick Barraza told The Digest. “The cost overruns are not $100 million,” said Fulcrum VP and CFO Eric Pryor, […]
In New York state, Orion Energy Partners, GCM Grosvenor and Voya Investment Management teamed to invest $365 million to retool a portion of an existing oil refinery in Bakersfield into a renewable diesel bio-refinery. The project will use Global Clean Energy Holdings’s proprietary camelina oil as well as traditional biofuel feedstocks such as waste fats, […]
In Washington, last week the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations to help businesses understand how legislation passed in 2018 may benefit those claiming carbon capture credits. The proposed regulations provide guidance regarding two new credits for carbon oxide captured using equipment originally placed in service on or after February 9, […]
In Lithuania, Baltic Course reports that biodiesel producer Mestilla will invest EUR6 million in used cooking oil biodiesel production. Construction is expected to start in early 2021 with commissioning planned before year’s end. Since it began operating in 2007, the company has been using rapeseed oil as feedstock. The additional capacity would represent 15% of […]
In India, the Economic Times newspaper reports that oil marketing companies have opened a fresh tender to seek ethanol from sugar mills, this time 990 million liters for supply between July 1 and November 30. Uttar Pradesh is the only major sugar producing state still operating, with Maharashtra and Karnataka already closed, so UP mills […]
In Iowa, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association is calling on state legislators to pass House File 2279 and Senate File 2403 that would extend and modernize fuel tax differentials for E15 and higher ethanol blends and B11 and higher biodiesel blends, which are set to expire on June 30, 2020. With the passage of either […]
In New York state, Platts reports that D6 RIN prices have jumped in value this week due to expectations that the Environmental Protection Agency will approve fewer small refinery hardship waivers due to close scrutiny into their approval processes. With RIN prices well over 50 cents each now, some market participants say that if as […]
In Russia, researchers from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” have developed a model of biofuel cell for electricity generation using cyanobacteria. The developers created and tested a model of a biofuel cell for the photogeneration of electricity based on cyanobacteria. Researchers focused on the design and optimization of nanostructured anodes on which life cells were […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that the Uttar Pradesh government wants to revisit the state’s biofuel law from 2018 to find ways to increase biofuel production. The state is the largest sugar producer and as such a top ethanol producer but the policy would help to boost investment in energy production from other […]
By Anu D. Vij and Mike Pawlowski, Ship & Shore Environmental Special to The Digest There is increasing emphasis on Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) applications in today’s Green Economy. Technology is moving at a rapid pace for RNG. Refinement of streams from a variety of sources of methane into quality pipeline gas requires a certain […]
