Archive for 2020

Accelerating Hydrogen, Powerfuels, Renewables: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to The German Energy Transition

Accelerating Hydrogen, Powerfuels, Renewables: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to The German Energy Transition

June 3, 2020 |

DENA, the German Energy Agency, released this slide guide highlighting how the country is transitioning into more energy efficiency, more direct renewable energies and powerfuels. By looking at integrated energy, they are implementing several projects to help industry reduce emissions. The Initiative Energy Efficiency Networks, phasing out nuclear and coal and replacing them with renewable energy, accelerating […]

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Corbion’s Jill Kauffman Johnson becomes new board chair at Algae Biomass Organization

Corbion’s Jill Kauffman Johnson becomes new board chair at Algae Biomass Organization

June 2, 2020 |

In California, the Algae Biomass Organization has tapped Jill Kauffman Johnson, Head of Global Market Development, Algae Ingredients at Corbion as the association’s new board chair, outgoing chairman Mark Allen said in an ABO blog post. Allen wrote: Jill brings exactly the kind of experience in science, product commercialization and public policy that can take […]

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DEM-COM: LanzaJet takes off on non-stop flight to scale

DEM-COM: LanzaJet takes off on non-stop flight to scale

June 2, 2020 |

After what could be considered a lengthy out-of-town tryout, LanzaJet is now officially launched as a LanzaTech spin-off — Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co. are investing $15 million and $10 million, respectively, to establish the new venture. All Nippon Airways is also contributing in exchange for accessing off take. What does LanzaJet do? It’s not […]

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US biomass-based diesel imports grew 26% in 2019

US biomass-based diesel imports grew 26% in 2019

June 2, 2020 |

In Washington, the Energy Information Agency says U.S. imports of biomass-based diesel, which include biodiesel and renewable diesel, grew 26% in 2019 to more than 27,000 barrels per day (b/d), reversing three years of decline. Imports of biomass-based diesel increased in 2019 because of the increase in renewable diesel imports from Singapore. The majority of […]

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Abengoa takes Fulcrum to court over $100M cost overrun despite arbitration

Abengoa takes Fulcrum to court over $100M cost overrun despite arbitration

June 2, 2020 |

In Spain, the El Confidential newspaper reports that Abengoa has ditched the Fulcrum aviation biofuel project it has been working on since 2017 citing irreconcilable difference with the client and a cost overrun of $100 million over the past two years. The plant was supposed to be completed by the end of 2019. Due to […]

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LanzaJet launched with Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co with $25M in equity

LanzaJet launched with Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co with $25M in equity

June 2, 2020 |

In Illinois, LanzaTech has successfully launched LanzaJet, Inc., a new company that will produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for a sector requiring climate friendly fuel options as it starts to recover from the impacts of COVID-19. With its approach to commercialization of SAF, LanzaJet is creating regional jobs while enabling global decarbonization of the aviation […]

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Brazilian April biodiesel production sees more than 75% of feedstock coming from soy

Brazilian April biodiesel production sees more than 75% of feedstock coming from soy

June 2, 2020 |

In Brazil, BiodieselBR reports that soybean oil passed the 75% share in the raw material matrix of the Brazilian biodiesel industry for the first time in three and a half years. According to the new set of data released by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), in April about 75.2% of […]

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Indian commission suggests allowing corn as ethanol feedstock

Indian commission suggests allowing corn as ethanol feedstock

June 2, 2020 |

In India, the Hindu Business Line reports that despite the controversy created by approving the use of spoiled, surplus rice for ethanol feedstock, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices now believes that using corn as ethanol feedstock should be allowed as well. Corn prices have collapsed nationally, so much that the government has had […]

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FDA updates guidance to allow ethanol producers to make hand sanitizer

FDA updates guidance to allow ethanol producers to make hand sanitizer

June 2, 2020 |

In Washington, the Food and Drug Administration has taken additional action to help ensure widespread access to hand sanitizers during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The agency has updated its guidances to provide additional clarification on the manufacturing and compounding of certain alcohol-based hand sanitizer products to help ensure that harmful levels of impurities are […]

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Berkeley Lab projects could make bioenergy crops more sustainable and profitable

Berkeley Lab projects could make bioenergy crops more sustainable and profitable

June 2, 2020 |

In California, a new set of projects by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could make agriculture both more sustainable and more profitable. The three projects, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), leverage Berkeley Lab’s strengths in artificial intelligence, sensors, and ecological biology. They aim to quantify and reduce the carbon […]

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