In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Agriculture provided $700 million to help lower costs and support biofuel producers who faced unexpected market losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds are being made available through the Biofuel Producer Program, which was created as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES […]
In North Dakota, ADM and Marathon Petroleum Corp., along with local, state and federal policymakers, celebrated the groundbreaking for North Dakota’s first dedicated soybean processing facility which will be supplied exclusively to Marathon as feedstock for approximately 75 million gallons of annual renewable diesel and is expected to be online by the 2023 harvest. By […]
In the Netherlands, the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s own carbon emissions should be 75% lower in 2025 and 90% lower in 2030 than in 2019. To this end, the Port Authority will ensure that all its vessels will switch completely to biofuel in the short term, and it has the ambition that from 2025 new […]
In Canada, Greenlane was awarded a contract for CAN$8.7 million (US$6.8 million) for a dairy manure to RNG project in the United States owned by an international energy company. Greenlane will supply its membrane separation biogas upgrading system, with order fulfillment expected to commence immediately. This contract win marks the third project within 18 months […]
In Washington, D.C., June 30, 2022 is the last day to sign up for the 2022 Census of Agriculture which is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them and is taken once every five years. The ag census, conducted for over 180 years, remains the only source of […]
In Germany, Lhyfe received approval from the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd (Baden-Württemberg) to start construction of its renewable hydrogen plant by water electrolysis on an industrial site of about 10,000 m2 with an expected operational date of early 2024. A production site for renewable green hydrogen by water electrolysis with a capacity of up to […]
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set biofuel blending mandates for 2022 at 20.63 billion gallons and retroactive volume mandates for 2021 at 18.84 billion gallons and for 2020 at 17.13 billion gallons. It also denied oil refiners’ exemption petitions, but said it would allow extra time for small refiners to meet their […]
In Finland, a recent study conducted by researchers from Åbo Akademi University, University of Turku, and PBI Research Institute, analyzed how much sustainable shipping would affect the prices of different good categories and found it would increase the prices of electronics and transportation equipment by less than a percentage. “The study shows that transportation of […]
The big question lately – is there enough feedstock available to meet the increased demand for renewable diesel? Pete Rocha, EVP at Lee Enterprises Consulting, shares this illuminating slide guide on how more feedstock is required to support RD growth, which feedstock of the 4 major categories in the U.S. has the most growth potential, […]
We’ve talked about sustainable aviation fuel so much in regards to airplanes, but how about helicopters? Well, news came in that Airbus Helicopters in Japan and Japan’s leading helicopter operator Nakanihon Air (NNK) jointly performed the country’s first ever helicopter flight powered with sustainable aviation fuel. So this made us look at SAF and helicopters […]
