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Ara Partners acquires Genera Energy, pumps $200M in expansion

Ara Partners acquires Genera Energy, pumps $200M in expansion

June 23, 2022 |

Cumberland Gap, it’s a devil of a gap That’s what the scouts all tell ya Sure ‘nuf it may get tough If it doesn’t kill ya, kill ya Kentucky, she’s a-waitin’ on the other side David Rawlings, “Cumberland Gap” News has arrived from Houston that Ara Partners, regularly seen around the halls of ABLC and […]

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Flying High on Hydrogen: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Nexa and Element 1

Flying High on Hydrogen: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Nexa and Element 1

June 23, 2022 |

Hydrogen for aviation is now and growing, according to Nexa and Element 1’s latest ABLC presentation. How can it scale up? What if hydrogen transport, storage and trans-loading can be as simple as AvGas or Jet Fuel? What about methanol as hydrogen feedstock? Where is it in use already today? How would it work in […]

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How rDME Can Decarbonize Propane: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

How rDME Can Decarbonize Propane: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

June 22, 2022 |

What is a renewable DME company like Oberon Fuels doing with propane and hydrogen industries? Well, first they harvest waste via renewable methanol or biogas to make their rDME, which can then be blended with propane, setting the stage for widespread hydrogen transport and leveraging existing distribution. Get all the latest on how rDME solves […]

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Phytonix: Converting CO2 Emissions into Sustainable Solar Chemicals & Fuels

Phytonix: Converting CO2 Emissions into Sustainable Solar Chemicals & Fuels

June 21, 2022 |

Winner of the 5th China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition By LeeAnne Yu of SCI Innovation Special to The Digest Bruce Dannenberg founded his company Phytonix in 2009 after having worked in the renewable energy industry for many years. Familiar with a variety of bio-based technologies, he saw a lot of energy production efforts […]

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Crop Science “Trait Factory”: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Bioscience

Crop Science “Trait Factory”: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Bioscience

June 21, 2022 |

Yield10 is now launching camelina as a low Carbon Intensity biofuels feedstock crop. Long-term, they are looking at PHA camelina for high value PHA bioplastics. The commercial opportunity in relay cropping is huge too and camelina can help as a replenishable reserve, even in the winter.

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LG Chem announces 50,000 ton Hydrogen project for 2024 with circular CO2

LG Chem announces 50,000 ton Hydrogen project for 2024 with circular CO2

June 20, 2022 |

In South Korea, LG Chem said it will construct a plant in Daesan, Korea, with the capacity to produce 50,000 tons of hydrogen annually by Q2 2024. This plant will be the first LG Chem site to produce pure hydrogen, apart from those earned as off-gases. The new plant employs technology which converts methane to […]

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Honeywell, Enlink Midstream partner on Carbon Capture solutions for US Gulf Coast

Honeywell, Enlink Midstream partner on Carbon Capture solutions for US Gulf Coast

June 20, 2022 |

In Texas, Honeywell and EnLink Midstream will work together to deliver carbon capture solutions to industrial-scale CO2 emitters within the U.S. Gulf Coast area.The Honeywell and EnLink relationship will focus on the Mississippi River corridor from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, an area that has many large, concentrated sources of industrial CO2 emissions. The companies […]

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Carbon Sink, CACF sign MOU to explore three new eMethanol projects

Carbon Sink, CACF sign MOU to explore three new eMethanol projects

June 20, 2022 |

In Maryland, Carbon Sink has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Cube Zero Carbon Fund Sàrl to facilitate financing for the development, construction, ownership, and operation of as many as three commercial facilities for the production and sale of eMethanol.  eMethanol made with the Carbon Sink platform is molecularly identical to methanol produced from fossil […]

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Cargill to debut advanced biodiesel plant in Ghent, Belgium

Cargill to debut advanced biodiesel plant in Ghent, Belgium

June 20, 2022 |

In Belgium, Cargill has completed its first state-of-the-art advanced biodiesel plant in Ghent, Belgium which converts waste oils and residues into renewable fuel. The advanced biodiesel produced at the facility will be used by the maritime and trucking sectors, enabling customers to lower the carbon footprint associated with their maritime and road transport activities. The […]

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Lhyfe, Chantiers de l’Atlantique sign MoU to develop offshore renewable hydrogen project 

Lhyfe, Chantiers de l’Atlantique sign MoU to develop offshore renewable hydrogen project 

June 20, 2022 |

In France, Lhyfe and Chantiers de l’Atlantique have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of offshore hydrogen production platforms. Lhyfe has 93 projects in development for production plants in Europe, equating to more than 4.8 GW of total installed capacity. It inaugurated a first industrial production plant in September 2021 and twenty of its […]

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