Digest readers will have noted that Abengoa shares jumped 41% on Friday and another 38 percent in Monday morning trading. What’s the good news? Let’s review. The state of play For Abengoa Bioenergy, a break-up and sale. Last week, we reported that potential buyers of Abengoa Bioenergy’s six first generation ethanol facilities have been looking […]
As we begin to prepare for the annual Advanced Bioeconomy Feedstocks & Supply Chain event in Miami this June, you might find yourself asking whatever happened to some of the feedstock darlings like jatropha. If jatropha faltered, never mind, went the argument, we’ll always have switchgrass. Or giant miscanthus, or pongamia, or poplar, or camelina. […]
In Iowa, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association is reporting that wholesale E85 pricing has dropped as low as $0.68 per gallon, as the group re-launched its E85 Wholesale Price Listing Program is available here.
In Hawaii, the Hawaiian Electric Companies are reporting that Hawai‘i Island led the state with 48.7 percent of customer electricity use coming from renewable resources in 2015. Maui County, including Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i, recorded 35.4 percent and O‘ahu achieved 17.2 percent of electricity used from renewable energy The Hawaiian Electric Companies reported the data in […]
In Washington, USDA Secretary Vilsack went on the offensive for the Obama Administrations support of the bioeconomy, saying that “It is incredibly maddening to me, given all of the facts I have just outlined, that anybody who has any knowledge of what’s going on, would suggest that this Administration has not been supportive. That is […]
In Nebraska, Mid American Agri Products/Wheatland has installed Edeniq’s Cellunator technology at its ethanol and biodiesel plant located in North Platte. The Cellunator milling equipment will increase the plant’s 44 million gallons per year (MGPY) of ethanol production capacity by pretreating the corn slurry to liberate additional starch. The MAAPW facility also produces three MGPY […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association,, ethanol production averaged 987,000 barrels per day (b/d)—or 41.45 million gallons daily. That is down 7,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 981,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 15.04 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol […]
In Washington, in an interview with POLITICO Pro Energy’s Morning Energy, American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard stipulated that his organization was pivoting its strategy toward reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard rather than continuing to call for an outright repeal. API said his group will target a sunset of the RFS after 2022 or a […]
In Germany, UFOP says that despite record consumption of around 37 million tons of diesel fuel, in 2015, biodiesel sales fell by 0.165 million tons compared with 2014. The admixture proportion of biodiesel fell by 6.5 percent in 2014 to 5.8 percent, according to information provided by the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and […]
In Jamaica, Benchmark Renewable Energy will develop a 10 million gallon per year advanced ethanol project in Jamaica that will also produce 3 MW of renewable power. The company said that its project would also produce 500K gallons of drop-in aviation fuel and 60,000 gallons per day of fresh, desalinated water. The company, which is […]
