Author Archive: Jim Lane
EPA’s Fine PM Rule: A Pitch Ethanol Should Hit Out of the Park
By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, special to The Digest August is usually a pretty sleepy month in Washington and business in general. In baseball parlance, the “dog days of August” is a term to convey the slow grind of a long season. But not this year. Between the drama of politics […]
The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Chevron
It’s a legendary petroleum company that began life (we kid you not) at Standard Oil of Iowa and co-founded Saudi Aramco, the world;’s largest company — it’s latest acquisition is all renewable, all domestic, in fact it’s the standard in Iowa, Renewable Energy Group. So, once again, Iowa Standard, we think. Here are the markets, […]
The Digest’s 2022 State of Advanced Ethanol
This week on ABLC CONNECT, we looked at the world of Advanced ethanol – markets, players, technologies, policy. 2G ethanol, sugarcane, ethanol as an intermediate, and advanced yield opportunities. We were fortunate to be joined by two leaders in the field, Dave Rubenstein, CEO of California Ethanol+Power, and Blue Biofuels CEO Ben Slager. Here are […]
The secrets of Sagoib: Raizen’s betting big on 2G ethanol, here’s the story
In recent weeks we’ve seen transformation after transformation in Brazil. Certainly, though the biggest news is yet to come, because we do not know yet who will own the BP Bunge ethanol assets, which are up for sale. We reported last week that “UAE state investor Mubadala Investment Co and Raizen are the final bidders […]
Waste Makes Haste: DOE awards $46M to utilize waste carbon in reducing emissions
News arrived from Washington that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded $46 million for 22 projects to decarbonize the transportation and power generation sectors. The projects will develop waste conversion and carbon capture technologies to produce fuels from biomass and waste streams, and enable algal systems to capture carbon and turn it into alternative clean […]
The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes
Novozymes – from the last syllable you can guess at their dominance in the world od creating disruptive yields through enzyme innovation — but did you know of their increasingly strong technology in yeast? What next for this company as it diversifies? All the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.
The Search for the Perpetual Virgin: Plastics, that is. Olefy undertakes the crusade.
The news has been sizzling since last week that VTT is spinning out Olefy technology in October – with a process that can convert most of the world’s waste plastics back to usable virgin grade materials an infinite number of times, and VTT adds, “affordably”, though we are still looking for detail on the Affordably-to-USD […]
The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste
Neste — a company that built massive renewable diesel capacity when it was not fashionable, and have transitioned from a minor oil & gas player in Europe to a Major Player on the Leading Edge of Net Zero. This up to date presentation covers the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.
The Digest’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Around the World 2022
Many countries are now active with Sustainable Aviation Fuel — but how much where, and when, and what? The bulk of activity continues to come from the US — however, the EU has been gaining momentum, and Asia of late has been highly active. Several technologies have been in the news. What we might now […]
