In Washington, D.C., news came Friday evening that the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a new Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) that will take several actions to assist farmers, ranchers, and consumers in response to the COVID-19 national emergency. But, it does not provide any assistance to America’s ethanol and renewable fuels industries, which as […]
In California, Berkeley Lab researchers answered two questions regarding biofuels –what amount of bioproduct a plant needs to produce in order to make the process of extracting it worthwhile, and what amount needs to be made in order to reach the target ethanol selling price of $2.50 per gallon which was the average cost in […]
In Brazil, EPBR reports that the Brazilian Development Bank, BNDES, does not have the resources to fulfill the financing line demanded by the ethanol sector to help with the Covid-19 impact of drastic price and demand drops for ethanol and that the initiative will depend on a consortium of public and private banks. “We don’t […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the issue of secure market supply is currently a topic of direct concern to consumers and is proof that international agricultural trade reaches its limit in crisis situations. The Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) demands that, when implementing the “Farm-to-Fork” strategy as part of the […]
In Washington, D.C., launched by Earth Day Network, the Wilson Center and the U.S. Department of State’s Eco-Capitals Forum, the Earth Challenge 2020 project creates a global expansion of open source citizen science data and opportunities for civic engagement. Using mobile technology and open citizen science data, Earth Challenge 2020 empowers people globally to monitor […]
In Germany, BASF is significantly expanding the production of disinfectant at its Ludwigshafen site and has now started production of hand sanitizer based on bioethanol, in addition to the isopropanol-based hand sanitizer manufactured to date. With the additional quantities of up to 100,000 liters of hand sanitizer per week, the company will support the new […]
In France, Amoeba, a pioneer of amoeba- based technologies for the biocide and plant protection markets signed an evaluation and testing agreement with Syngenta, one of the world’s leaders in agriculture. In response to the growing demand for effective and sustainable solutions against fungal diseases, Syngenta will test different concepts based on Amoeba’s Willaertia magna […]
In Texas, INFRA Technology Group and PETRONAS Research entered a research and development collaboration agreement for the development of a specialist Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst. The project will be phased over several years to identify and develop a catalyst with optimum yield based on the required project parameters. The collaborative team, comprising members from INFRA’s R&D […]
In Germany, Bavarian ship management company MINSHIP and its subsidiary MINMARINE said a bulk carrier in their fleet of managed vessels, M/V Trudy, has successfully bunkered GoodFuel’s biofuel at the Port of Rotterdam. The biofuel bunkered by the 2009-built, 30,790-dwt bulk carrier on April 17 was GoodFuels’ sustainable Bio-fuel Oil MR1-100: which is a second […]
Xebec is reducing carbon emissions in the gas grid by accelerating the adoption of renewable gases, focusing on both renewable natural gas and renewable hydrogen. With a $100 million in order backlog that validates the technology and over $60 million invested into proprietary technology, and more than 65 RNG and 200 hydrogen projects deployed worldwide. Get […]
