The U.S. Energy Information Administration reduced its forecast for 2025 renewable diesel production in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Oct. 8. The 2024 and 2025 forecasts for “other biofuels,” which includes SAF, were maintained.
Renewables are currently expected to account for 25% of U.S. electricity generation in 2025, up from 23% in 2024, according to data released by the U.S. EIA on Oct. 8. Renewables accounted for 21% of U.S. electricity generation last year.
Clean Energy Technologies Inc. announced on Oct. 7 that Vermont Renewable Gas LLC, an affiliate limited liability company has been selected by the USDA as one of its Rural Energy for America Program Grant recipients.
U.S. wood pellet exports fell to 775,856.9 metric tons in August, down from both 874,596.1 metric tons exported the previous month and the 1.01 million tons exported in August 2023, according to data released by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service on Oct. 8.
Enviva Inc. on Oct. 3 filed its 2023 annual report with the SEC and the following day submitted an amended Chapter 11 reorganization plan to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Emvolon has announced an agreement with Montauk Renewables Inc. to produce carbon-negative fuels and chemicals. The companies plan to develop a commercial-scale demonstration project to convert biogas into methanol at a landfill site in Texas.
Aether Fuels has signed an MOU with JetBlue. The company has developed technology that utilizes a diverse array of waste feedstocks to produce sustainable liquid fuels, such as SAF, at a lower cost and greater scale than existing approaches.
The USDA on Oct. 3 awarded $104 million in loans and grants to more than 300 clean energy projects under the Rural Energy for America Program. Biogas and bioenergy projects were among those selected for funding.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia on Oct. 2 approved a legally binding agreement that will require the U.S. EPA to review, and if appropriate, update NSPS for new residential wood heating appliances.
Ameresco Inc., Republic Services Inc. and Pacific Gas and Electric Company on Oct. 2 celebrated the ribbon cutting for California’s largest and most resilient LFG-to-RNG plant, located at the Keller Canyon Landfill in Pittsburg, California.
GFL Environmental Inc. and OPAL Fuels Inc. have announced their joint venture, Paragon RNG, has commenced commercial operations of its new renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Sampson County Landfill.
Cepsa is now supplying SAF in the Canary Islands. The company has made SAF permanently available at the North Tenerife and Gran Canaria airports, and will expand this availability to the archipelago’s other main airports.
On Oct. 3, the Alliance for Green Heat announced the Firewood Community Safety Initiative, to help communities address wood heating safety issues. The initiative is funded by a three-year grant from USDA’s Wood Education Research Center.
Biofuels are making up an increasing share of total distillate fuel oil consumed in the U.S. Beginning in the September 2024 Short-Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. EIA began publishing forecasts that will better capture how biofuels are being consumed.
Aemetis Inc. on Oct. 3 announced that its Aemetis Biogas subsidiary has completed initial construction of a multi-dairy anaerobic digester to process waste from approximately 14,000 dairy cows in Merced County, California.
Lummus Technology and Next Wave Energy Partners LP announced the production of the world's first renewable alkylate. This renewable alkylate, derived from ethanol, is a biobased, low carbon intensity fuel blending component.
The U.K.’s National Oceanography Centre is trialing the use of a fossil-free marine diesel to fuel the Royal Research Ships (RRS) James Cook and Discovery. The trial is funded by the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council.
The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Platform Initiative has unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists engineered a process for making β-ketoadipic acid from lignin for $2 per kilogram, approaching cost-competitiveness with petroleum-based chemicals used for making nylon today.
DOE: Optimizing a waste-to-fuel future for aviation
By Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy, Laboratory Relationship Manager, Pacific Northwest National
October 03, 2024
With waste-to-fuel SAF becoming an increasingly viable technology, researchers at PNNL are exploring ways to optimize infrastructure and siting decisions for producing, transporting, storing, and using those fuels in the U.S.
Energy company Repsol has started supplying liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) to Brittany Ferries’ LNG-fueled vessels Salamanca and Santoña at the LNG-bunkering terminal in Santander, Spain. This is the first test of its kind for the two companies.
SPOTLIGHT Heyl Patterson Thermal Processing | From Concept to Reality: Led by Experience
By Biomass Magazine
October 03, 2024
CARB has published additional proposed changes to its pending LCFS modifications, including those that aims to use of sunflower oil feedstock for biomass-based diesel production, and update regulations related to corn stover and biomethane.
Haffner Energy and Bambbco, France’s leading bamboo provider, announce that they have signed a partnership. Both companies are based in France and share a common goal of improving the availability of biomass for energy applications.
Comstock Inc. has announced the execution of an exclusive license agreement and cooperative research and development agreement with NREL involving technologies developed by NREL and MIT for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into SAF.
Biomass energy is the equivalent of the premium fuel of our day.
The U.S. EPA has agreed to review, and if appropriate, update its NSPS for new residential wood heating appliances under a consent decree filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Sept. 26.
The government of Illinois on Sept. 30 announced Crysalis Biosciences Inc. will receive incentives under the state’s REV Illinois program to support its SAF project under development in Sauget, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.
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