SCS Global Services is now approved as an independent verifier by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for Oregon's Clean Fuels Program, launched in 2016 to reduce the transportation carbon footprint of Oregonians.
Officials from Gevo Inc. discussed progress on the development of the company's proposed Net-Zero 1 biorefinery during a Q3 earnings call. The facility will be located in Lake Preston, South Dakota, and produce 45 MMgy of renewable hydrocarbons.
Representatives of Aemetis Inc. discussed progress with the company's biogas, ethanol, cellulosic biofuel and carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives during a third quarter earnings call, held Nov. 11.
OPAL Fuels LLC on Nov. 10 celebrated the ribbon cutting ceremony of its new Sunoma Renewable Natural Gas Facility at Paloma Dairy in Gila Bend, Arizona. The facility will produce 1.6 million gasoline gallon equivalents of renewable vehicle fuel.
Increasing the production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) is one component of the U.S. Aviation Climate Action Plan unveiled on Nov. 9 by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at the UN Climate Change Conference.
Velocys plc on Nov. 10 announced two separate off-take agreements with Southwest Airlines Co. and International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. for SAF to be produced at the company's proposed Bayou Fuels biorefinery in Natchez, Mississippi.
Astra Energy Inc., a renewable and WTE project developer and technology acquisition company, has executed an agreement with Regreen Technologies Inc. and Global Sustainable Technologies Inc. for rights to a proprietary WTE technology.
Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., on Nov. 5 introduced the Biomass and Biogas for Electric Vehicles Act, which aims to require the U.S. EPA to process long-delayed RFS pathway applications to generate eRINs.
Southern California Gas Co., local officials, and business representatives on Nov. 4 celebrated the opening of a new fueling station located in Menifee, California. The new fueling station will exclusively offer renewable natural gas (RNG).
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has announced its intent to issue a second funding opportunity to support the scale-up of biofuel and bioproduct biorefineries.
Cynthia (CJ) Warner, president and CEO of REG, provided an update on the expansion of the company's Geismar renewable diesel plant and elaborated on plans to shut down the company's Houston biodiesel plant during a third quarter earnings call.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. released Q3 financial results on Nov. 5, reporting that the company has secured a key permit that is allowing work to begin ahead of schedule on its renewable diesel conversion in Great Falls, Montana.
The U.S. EPA published updated small refinery exemption (SRE) data on Nov. 5, reporting that the agency has denied one SRE petition for compliance year 2019. An additional SRE petition has also been filed for compliance year 2020.
On Nov. 2, SJI and development partner REV LNG LLC announced the construction of a 2MM gallon anaerobic digester at Oakridge Dairy, Connecticut's largest dairy farm. The $12 million RNG facility is expected to be operaitonal in September 2022.
The U.K. government on Nov. 4 published a policy statement that provides an early indication of priorities and intentions for biomass use ahead of the planned publication of a full biomass strategy in 2022.
Aemetis Inc. has entered into an agreement with engineering and construction firm CTCI America to conduct permitting and engineering work for the Carbon Zero renewable jet/diesel plant to be built in Riverbank, California.
CHAR Technologies Ltd. has announced the commencement of surveying and geotechnical testing at the proposed site of its woody-biomass to renewable natural gas (RNG) high temperature pyrolysis (HTP) project near Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
Wood has announced an engineering, procurement, and construction management services contract with REG to support the company's improvement and expansion project at its renewable diesel biorefinery in Geismar, Louisiana.
Honeywell on Oct. 28 announced that JGC Holdings Corp. and Cosmo Oil Co. will use Honeywell Ecofining technology for the first commercial scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Japan. The project will covert used cooking oil into SAF.
Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC – a joint venture partnership between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Brightmark Fund Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Brightmark LLC – has delivered first gas at its Lawnhurst site in Western New York.
Yosemite Clean Energy, announced Oct. 28 it has secured the site for developing the company's first carbon-negative green hydrogen and RNG production plant in Oroville, California, with groundbreaking scheduled for Q2 of 2022.
Mike Hennigan, CEO of Marathon Petroleum Corp., provided an update of the company's renewables fuels initiatives, including it refinery conversion projects and a feedstock joint venture formed with ADM, during a third quarter earnings call.
David Lamp, president and CEO of CVR Energy Inc. provided an update of the company's planned projects to convert two existing petroleum refineries to renewable diesel production during a third quarter earnings call on Nov. 2.
Market momentum, potential and policy were some of the main discussion topics at the virtual Biogas Americas conference.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a concept that would make Martian rocket fuel, on Mars, that could be used to launch future astronauts back to Earth. The process uses CO2, sunlight, frozen water and two microbes.
Operatable biofuels production capacity in the U.S. remained steady at 20.734 billion gallons per year in August. Biofuel feedstock consumption, at 24.948 billion pounds, was down 1.938 billion pounds when compared to July, according to the EIA.
Petron Scientech Inc. and SBI Bioenergy Inc. have entered into an alliance agreement to license differentiated, integrated, energy-efficient, and sustainable technologies for biomass to green hydrogen and low carbon biofuels production.
San Joaquin Renewables announced Oct. 27 that it reached an agreement with Cresta Fund Management and Silverpeak Energy Partners to invest up to $165 million to develop and construct a biomass to renewable natural gas (RNG) project in California.
The call for presentation abstracts for the 15th Annual International Biomass Conference & Expo produced by Biomass Magazine is now open. The event will take place March 14-16, 2022, in Jacksonville, Florida.
Global Bioenergies has made major advances in its process for converting plant-based feedstocks into isobutene. The resulting improved performance will benefit the converson of industiral sugars into biobased jet fuel.
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