In Illinois, Project Speedbird – a joint partnership between LanzaJet, British Airways (BA), and Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) – has secured new funding totalling $11.2 million from the Government’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition. LanzaJet, the world’s leading ethanol to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology company and sustainable fuels producer, and NPT, a UK-based cleantech company […]
In California, SWITCH Maritime LLC, a US-based company developing electrified, zero-emission ferries powered by battery and hydrogen fuel cell, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Nexus Development Capital to grow its fleet. Founded in 2018 by a veteran team of maritime energy transition leaders, SWITCH’s mission is to enable private […]
In Georgia, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced the successful completion of the world’s first trans-Atlantic flight using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Accomplished on November 19, the flight took place on a Gulfstream G600 aircraft, which departed the company’s headquarters in Savannah and landed 6 hours, 56 minutes later at Farnborough Airport in England. Powered by […]
In Indiana, officials from The Pantheon and the Knox County Indiana Economic Development Corporation announced the launch of AgroRenew LLC, a processing facility that will repurpose food waste from Knox County’s thriving watermelon, cantaloupe, and pumpkin industry into eco-friendly bioplastics. With plans to break ground in early 2024, the company has secured land in Knox […]
In Finland, Origin by Ocean and AFRY have entered a collaborative engineering collaboration to plan an industrial-scale biorefinery for processing bio-based seaweed products in Finland. The conceptual study phases aim to define production concepts and the steps required to construct a biorefinery. Origin by Ocean’s first algae biorefinery in Finland is projected to reach full […]
In China, the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into carbon-based fuels provides a promising strategy to mitigate CO2 emission and promotes the utilization of renewable energy. The Cn (n≥2) liquid products are desirable because of their high energy densities and ease of storage. However, manipulation of C-C coupling pathway remains a challenge due to the limited mechanistic understanding. […]
In California, Courthouse News Services reports AltAir Paramount wants to expand its biorefinery but a Superior Court judge said last week he is likely to put a halt on it because he seems to be in agreement with environmental groups who are concerned about the facility’s close proximity to residential areas. World Energy, the current […]
In the Netherlands, Macquarie Asset Management will support the growth of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) with an initial investment of up to €175 million in SkyNRG via the Macquarie GIG Energy Transition Solutions (MGETS) Fund. This new investment led by Macquarie Asset Management’s specialist Green Investments team will support SkyNRG’s next phase of growth and […]
In New York state, Ammongas, a part of European Energy, successfully installated a biogas upgrading facility at Allen Farms, in the state of New York. This facility is the first in a series of four, planned for development by Cayuga RNG Holdings, LLC, a joint venture of UGI Energy Services, LLC, a subsidiary of UGI […]
In Texas, Argus has launched daily prices for renewable diesel in California, complementing its existing suite of renewable diesel prices, which spans Asia, Europe and the US west coast. Renewable diesel, also known as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), is chemically identical to conventional road diesel and can be used as a “drop-in” fuel to replace fossil […]
