The USDA Western Regional Research Center has ~350 people, ~45 in bioproducts & biofuels. It’s part of the Agricultural Research Service, the ARS is the in-house research arm of the USDA. They partner with companies and industry groups to take bioproducts to market. According to the WRRC, “we can invent our way to an environmentally […]
USDA’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service offers loan guarantees, grants, and technical assistance support of the bioeconomy and access to capital for Commercialization of emerging technologies; Production of biofuels and renewable chemicals and manufacturing of biobased products; Service, supply, and marketing industries; Infrastructure; and, USDA’s BioPreferred® program supports the marketing of biobased products. USDA RBCS Deputy Administration […]
Renewable projects have a disaggregated value chain, competing and new stakeholders, and a complex technology selection process. Project risk can be reduced, and ROI maximized with accurate project definition, compressed delivery schedules, and expert management. Mickey Reeves of Triten IAG presented these slides at ABLC Next.
The DIgest completed the 7 week series of ABLC CONNECT events in which ABLC delegates join in a Zoom-based pre-networking session with this look at the world of Bioeconomy Feedstocks and Advanced Agriculture and — markets, players, technologies, policy and more. Digest editor Jim Lane presented these State of the Sector slides as part of […]
Sustainable Oils Camelina has emerged as the crop feedstock of choice for renewable diesel production. Renewable diesel made from Sustainable Oils Camelina is a high-demand drop-in fuel that meets all specifications for today’s engines, on par with diesel produced from petroleum. Sustainable Oils Camelina varieties are the only camelina approved for the California LCFS. Sustainable […]
T2C-Energy is a clean energy technology provider specializing in the conversion of biogas from landfills and anaerobic digesters into drop-in, renewable jet and diesel fuels. The patented TRIFTS® process is a synergistic combination of chemical reactions which transforms crude biogas, composed of methane and carbon dioxide into a high grade synthesis gas. The synthesis gas […]
On Wednesday February 8th, The DIgest continued the 7 week series of ABLC CONNECT events in which ABLC delegates join in a Zoom-based pre-networking session as we explore topics in depth. This week we looked at the world of Cellulosic and Multi-Technology Biorefineries — markets, players, technologies, policy and more. Digest editor Jim Lane presented […]
SHV Energy is a leading global distributor of off-grid energy, such as LPG, LNG, hydrogen, bioLPG and rDME. The company serves 30 million business and residential customers in 24 countries across 4 continents. The ambition is to offer 100% renewably and sustainably sourced energy by 2040. They are actively innovating, investing & collaborating to develop […]
RFA’s view is that SAF production presents a major new market opportunity for ethanol producers, as the lifecycle carbon footprint of ethanol continues to shrink and the economics of ethanol-to-jet fuel processes continue to improve. Ethanol companies recently penned a letter to President Biden, in which they pledged that the ethanol they produce will achieve […]
All the developed and even now developing nations are working hard on Net Zero ambitions and timelines now — India has a goa to reduce 1 billion tons of carbon emissions by 2030 and drop the carbon intensity to 45% en route to Net Zero by 2070. That means new technology and feedstocks, even more, […]
