Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Aiga Partners

May 25, 2023 | Jim Lane

Aiga is a minority-owned business focused on investments in North American-based companies developing sustainable infrastructure assets. The team includes experienced developers, asset managers, energy infrastructure investors, project financiers, and structured investment experts. Our principals have extensive track records in the renewables sectors and over 45+ years of combined experience with fundraising, M&A, development, operations, investments, […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Virent

May 24, 2023 | Jim Lane

Virent, a subsidiary of Marathon Petroleum developed its BioForming technology to create fuels and chemicals from a wide range of naturally occurring, renewable resources. And now they teamed up with Johnson Matthey to bring to market Virent’s proprietary tech for the production of BioFormate, enabling production of bio-gasoline, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and bio-aromatic chemicals. […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Mote, and the new hydrogen

May 23, 2023 | Jim Lane

Mote makes uniquely integrated gasification plants to produce hydrogen and CO2 from wood waste, in an environment of underway huge demand for fossil-free, cost-competitive hydrogen, rapid development of CCUS, the emergence of voluntary Carbon Markets, and widespread international Net Zero commitments. Mote says it has the most scalable carbon removal technology, and address what it […]

Australia on the Brink: will “electrify everything” doom the Lucky Country?

May 23, 2023 | Jim Lane

Australia will be exposed to environmental, economic and energy security risks if governments fail to foster a domestic renewable fuels sector, says a new report by Deloitte and commissioned by Bioenergy Australia. The report is titled Transitioning Australia’s Liquid Fuel Sector: The Role of Renewable Fuels – which addresses decarbonization of Australia’s economy: Especially, it […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Boundless Impact, and a new way to count carbon intensity

May 22, 2023 | Jim Lane

It’s the new way to measure Carbon Intensity and your potential for carbon revenues – how much better, faster and more affordable is it? This week on REenergize we were joined by Michele Demers, Founder and CEO of Boundless Impact Research & Analytics. Boundless unleashes Environmental Impact Analysis to differentiate your product using rapid LCAs, […]

Will it be the Summer of SAF, or of circular feedstocks, or circular chemicals?

May 22, 2023 | Jim Lane

Depending on your newsfeed keywords, you might be confused about the trends for the bioeconomy summer. If you’ve popped “SAF” into your news mix, the flow of announcements has been so heavy, you may be wondering if SAF is running for President. Yet, if you’ve been monitoring the circuit of industry events, you might think […]

Tipping the Scale on CO2 Levels: Fast-Tracking Bioeconomy Decarbonization

May 21, 2023 | Jim Lane

By Mauricio Villegas, Manager of Business Development, Koch Modular Process Systems Special to The Digest Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continue to increase globally, but the degree of growth is starting to tapper off. In 2021 the IEA reported that CO2 levels increased by 6% from the prior year, partly due to the significant decline during the […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

May 18, 2023 | Jim Lane

Gevo addresses the market need of reducing greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable alternatives, and is commercializing the next generation of advanced, bio-based renewable fuels with sustainable aviation fuel, renewable premium gasoline, and renewable natural gas that have the potential to achieve zero carbon emissions over the lifecycle of the fuel. To make its energy-dense liquid […]

Lindbergh Foundation, XPrize, LEC partner for aviation sustainability prize development

May 18, 2023 | Jim Lane

In Arkansas, Lee Enterprises Consulting has joined with the Lindbergh Foundation and The XPRIZE Foundation in the Forever Flight Alliance to make aviation permanently sustainable utilizing an all-industry approach to decarbonize aviation using incentive prizes. The SAF prize challenge activities will coincide with the Lindbergh Foundation’s 100th anniversary activities of Charles Lindbergh’s historic 1927 Transatlantic […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Clariant Cellulosic Ethanol technology

May 17, 2023 | Jim Lane

Chemicals, catalysis, additives. Clariant shared how they are working on advancing biofuels globally and here offers extensive detail on their sunliquid technology to decarbonize transportation, now operating at commercial scale in Romania. A fully integrated and carbon negative process, sunliquid is a platform for sustainable biobased products too such as cosmetics, lubricants, plastics and more. […]

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