In Belgium, the national fuel suppliers union that represents independent fuel suppliers has pending court cases with the supreme administrative court of Belgium as well as the constitutional court to end the country’s E4 and B4 volumetric blending mandates. On June 23, the government extended the 2009 blending rule, which the group characterizes as draconian. […]
In New Zealand, a wastewater treatment process that recycles biodiesel glycerol and produces ‘green’ renewable energy is now underway in Christchurch. The process, which is the result of three years’ of testing and research between the Christchurch City Council and Solid Energy, is currently being used at the Council’s Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bromley, New […]
In the UK, Shentongroup has launched a new waste-to-energy generator that can run on any combination of diesel, biodiesel, natural gas, or biogas that can then be fitted with a control system that enables any excess electricity to be exported to the national grid. An option to provide hot water via the Hexpac heat exchanger […]
In Montana, Blue Marble Biomaterials released more details on how their Missoula facility achieves zero-waste. Measures to do this include recycling nearly 100% of their water, saving over 26,000 gallons per month, returning it to their biochemical fermentation and algae remediation systems. The reverse osmosis system also separates the biochemicals from the water, reducing the […]
In Maryland, a researcher at the University of Maryland has developed a system of algae ponds that is cleaning up agricultural chemical runoff in Chesapeake Bay. The experiment is now operating on a small-scale in two sites in the state but the hope is that it expands into hundreds or thousands of acres. The algal […]
In Thailand, the government has successfully completed a three-month trial using E95 city buses. The buses ran normally while producing fewer carbon emissions compared to the traditional diesel buses, and data from the project would be used to formulate policy on the use of ethanol in the transport sector. The project sponsored by the Energy […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, continued to recover, moving up 3.16 percent to 72.43 as advanced biofuels jumped sharply. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) rose 3.29 percent to $27.91, while Gevo (GEVO) advanced 6.25 percent to $7.99. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) soared 9.13 percent to $18.04 […]
In Washington, the RFA reports: “Two new reports independently concluded that speculation in the commodities market is having an unduly large effect in driving prices for goods like gasoline and food higher for all Americans. These reports come in advance of the October 18 meeting of the Commodities Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) to discuss […]
Iowa algae and corn ethanol project points the way towards optimizing delivery of feed, fuel, carbon reduction. In our 10-part series, the Bioenergy Project of the Future, based on extensive interviews with industry leaders, we outlined what is expected to be the multi-product, multi-input structure of biofuels and biomaterials projects in the future. In step […]
In California, Khosla Ventures has raised $1.05 billion for an investment fund with half of that dedicated towards cleantech. “We fundamentally invest in the companies that we expect to have significant impact, and that’s precisely what the Khosla Ventures IV fund will do,” Vinod Khosla told the San Francisco Business Times. His investments Amyris, Gevo, […]
