With 3 trillion vehicle miles in the U.S. and 11 billion freight tons, transportation is key to our way of life, and the Department of Energy realizes it hits our national energy usage in many ways. That’s why they are researching it all levels from components and fuels, vehicles and transportation systems. Michael Berube, Acting Deputy […]
Working as an M&A and capital market counsel focused on the biofuels sector, Oswaldo Dalla Torre has been monitoring the developments of the Brazilian Renovabio program, which has just entered into force. RenovaBio is Brazil’s federal program aimed to curb carbon emissions by 10% in 2028, in line with the UN Paris Agreement on climate change. […]
I thought I would never hear concentrated joy as at the evangelical churches of my childhood, on Easter morning, when the faithful sang “Christ The Lord Is Risen Today” — and then I arrived at the 2020 National Biodiesel Conference & Expo. This year’s conference theme was simple and bold enough, Vision 2020. But it could […]
In Washington state, Phillips 66 and Renewable Energy Group, Inc are discontinuing their joint effort to construct a large-scale renewable diesel plant in Ferndale, Washington, the companies announced. The project has been canceled due to permitting delays and uncertainties. Originally announced in fall 2018, this 250 million gallon per year project would have resulted in […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that oil marketing companies have launched their second ethanol tender of the season, seeking another 2.53 billion liters to be used in blending with gasoline between February and November because the results of the tender held in September only saw 1.56 billion liters contracted against the 5.11 billion […]
In Louisiana, the Advocate newspaper reports that Greentech Materials is looking to build a $400-$500 million renewable diesel facility at the Port of Baton Rouge that would use soybean oil and palm oil as feedstock. Last Thursday at a port executive meeting, a 90-day period was granted for the company to reach an agreement on […]
In Texas, Platts reports that the Bo-Ho factor, the differential between heating oil futures and soybean oil feedstock for biodiesel that indicates the viability of discretionary biodiesel blending, reached a two-year high last Friday at to 59.87 cents/gal on the back of stronger soybean oil prices. Even with the reinstatement of the $1/gal biodiesel blending […]
In Malaysia, Reuters reports that a poll of 18 analysts shows palm oil prices could increase more than 17% this year to more than $650 per metric ton partly as a result of increased biodiesel blending mandates in Malaysia and Indonesia, the two largest producers globally. Production is also expected to fall during the first […]
In Cyprus, local press reports that the government is coming under fire for boosting the amount of biofuel blended with fuels in order to comply with the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive that calls for 10% renewable energy in transportation by 2020. Last Friday that blend was increased to 7.3% from the previous 5% which […]
In Japan, research team at Kobe University has developed a method of artificially controlling the anchorage position of target proteins in engineered baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). The research demonstrated that this technique could be utilized to improve the amount of ethanol produced from hydrothermally-processed rice straw by 30%. It is expected that these results will […]
