Category: Top Stories

Poop to Power – $30-40M Anaerobic digestion RNG deal between Bioenergy DevCo and Cheseapeake Utilities

Poop to Power – $30-40M Anaerobic digestion RNG deal between Bioenergy DevCo and Cheseapeake Utilities

June 7, 2020 |

Big project news came in that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation entered into an agreement with Bioenergy DevCo to purchase biogas generated from organic materials at BDC’s facilities in Delaware which will be processed into renewable natural gas. The program uses excess poultry organics to create sustainable, carbon-negative energy source to augment utility portfolios and the total […]

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Competitive Edge: SUMWIN GLOBAL PTE LTD

Competitive Edge: SUMWIN GLOBAL PTE LTD

June 4, 2020 |

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? To provide innovative & cutting-edge technologies to add value in Food, Feed, Oleo-chemicals, Nutraceuticals & Renewable Energy sectors using R&D […]

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DEM-COM: LanzaJet takes off on non-stop flight to scale

DEM-COM: LanzaJet takes off on non-stop flight to scale

June 2, 2020 |

After what could be considered a lengthy out-of-town tryout, LanzaJet is now officially launched as a LanzaTech spin-off — Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co. are investing $15 million and $10 million, respectively, to establish the new venture. All Nippon Airways is also contributing in exchange for accessing off take. What does LanzaJet do? It’s not […]

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More dope, rope, soap: an upward slope in camelina, hemp, cannabis, soybeans for food, fuels, feed

More dope, rope, soap: an upward slope in camelina, hemp, cannabis, soybeans for food, fuels, feed

June 2, 2020 |

Benson Hill, Yield10 and Marrone Bio are in the news this week with advances in their crop technologies aimed at yield improvement and nutritional composition. Yield continues to be the motherlode when it comes to agricultural innovation, you can see the recent waves of agtech investing more or less as a series of novel strategies […]

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Bioenergy:  The Great Continuum

Bioenergy: The Great Continuum

June 1, 2020 |

By Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D., Managing Director, below50 and Douglas L. Faulkner, “the Clean Tech Conservative” & President, Leatherstocking LLC Special to The Digest In the rush of twenty-first century life, especially in this time of multiple crises, we can lose a sense of historical perspective, be lulled into thinking that only the new and […]

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Lactips, producer of first soluble bioplastic, raises $14.4M to ramp up bioplastic production based on milk protein

Lactips, producer of first soluble bioplastic, raises $14.4M to ramp up bioplastic production based on milk protein

May 31, 2020 |

Like Willy Wonka’s candy cups, edible sweet trees and and delicious chocolate river, Lactips is dreaming of edible packaging and bioplastics. Thanks to a new 13 million Euros (approximately $14.4 million USD) in new capital, they now have the resources needed to drive the development of its biosourced, biodegradable and water-soluble solution, providing an alternative […]

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Competitive Edge: Hydragas Energy

Competitive Edge: Hydragas Energy

May 28, 2020 |

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? We founded Hydragas to develop a renewable gas recovery technology, to supply clean energy at country-scale. The roots of the […]

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Q&A on Cellulosic Ethanol with Clariant

Q&A on Cellulosic Ethanol with Clariant

May 27, 2020 |

DigestConnect hosted a wildly popular webinar in late April with Clariant’s Head of Business Line, Biofuels & Derivatives at Clariant but there were so many fantastic audience questions we didn’t to, that we decided to follow up and put together The Digest’s Q&A with Clariant on the latest and greatest about cellulosic ethanol. In today’s […]

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Agricultural & Energy DigestData Dashboard for May 2020: Resilience, Crops, Economy, Energy

Agricultural & Energy DigestData Dashboard for May 2020: Resilience, Crops, Economy, Energy

May 26, 2020 |

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3 Things that Need to Happen for Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Take Off

3 Things that Need to Happen for Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Take Off

May 25, 2020 |

By Lloyd Ritter, Esq., Director, Green Capitol LLC Special to The Digest A timely new report came out recently on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), “Ready for Takeoff: Aviation Biofuels Past, Present, and Future,” written by the Atlantic Council (herein AC).  The key takeaways are three-fold. First, aviation emissions are one of the most recognizable sources […]

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