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House subcommittee holds hearing on RINs

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By Erin Krueger

July 25, 2018

Policy Business 

On July 25, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Environment held a hearing that aimed to educate members of the subcommittee on renewable identification numbers (RINs) and the role RINs play in the RFS.

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The Canadian government has announced plans to delay implementation of its Clean Fuel Standard. Original plans called for development of the program regulations to be complete next year. That work is now expected to take until 2021.

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Cool Planet, an agricultural technology company focused on soil health solutions, has closed on an additional $20.3 million of new investment and note conversion. The funding will be used to increase overall production of Cool Terra.

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On July 23, Poet LLC received an approval from the Shelbyville, Indiana, planning commission that will allow it to proceed with the development of an 80 MMgy ethanol plant at a site approximately 5 miles northwest of the city.

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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions recently provided the first published report of algae using raw plants as a carbon energy source. The research could boost algae's potential value as a biofuel.

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The USDA will authorize up to $12 billion in aid to assist farmers who have been impacted by retaliatory tariffs. The ethanol industry also called on the Trump administration to provide RVP relief for E15 as a way to aid the farm community.

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Drax Group has released financial results for the first half of 2018, reporting lower than expected EBITDA due to two unplanned outages. Good progress, however, is being made with the fourth biomass unit conversion and a Louisiana pellet plant.

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On July 24, the U.S. EPA published a notice qualifying distillers sorghum oil as an eligible feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels and biomass-based diesel under the Renewable Fuel Standard.

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On July 24, the U.S. EPA published a notice qualifying distillers sorghum oil as an eligible feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels and biomass-based diesel under the Renewable Fuel Standard.

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From Plant to Plant: Lessons Learned

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By Holger Streetz

July 23, 2018

Pelletizing is conceptually simple: dried and ground-up sawdust is compressed under high pressure and temperature to ensure sufficient density, but efficient, reliable operation of the pellet mill requires considerable skills and experience.

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NREL: New finding will help convert lignin to useful products

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory

July 23, 2018

An international research team, including scientists NREL, has discovered and characterized a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes that is critical to improving the conversion of lignin into valuable products such as nylon, plastics, and chemicals.

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Wood dust. It's the lifeblood of a pellet plant, but it can be the force behind an operation's demise, if not properly managed.

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The Opportunity in Modern Wood Heat

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By Maura Adams

July 23, 2018

Installations alone aren't enough to catalyze modern wood heat market growth. To really scale up and achieve significant, lasting benefits for rural communities, we need to make far more people aware that automated wood heat is even an option.

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Air Liquide inaugurated a biomethane production plant in Walnut, Mississippi,on July 20. The facility is the first large-scale biomethane production plant designed and built by Air Liquide in the U.S.

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Player Design Inc., a Maine-based engineering, drying and energy equipment provider, is in the midst of building a pellet manufacturing plant in Sanford, Maine. The 35,000-to-capacity facility should be operational later this year.

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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, questioned Council on Environmental Quality nominee Bridget Neumayr on her support for the Renewable Fuel Standard and E15 during a U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing July 19.

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NREL: New finding will help convert lignin to useful products

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By National Renewable Energy Laboratory

July 23, 2018

An research team, including scientists from NREL, has discovered and characterized a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes that is critical to improving the conversion of lignin into valuable products such as nylon, plastics, and chemicals.

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Advanced Biofuels Canada announced the release of the Biofuels in Canada 2018 report, which updates and expands upon the last annual report by Navius Research released in 2017 and in 2016 in partnership with Clean Energy Canada.

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An research team, including scientists from NREL, has discovered and characterized a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes that is critical to improving the conversion of lignin into valuable products such as nylon, plastics, and chemicals.

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Industrial explosions present serious risk to any wood- or cellulose-processing facility, such as a biomass plant, that handles combustible dusts and vapors.

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In mid-July Attis Industries announced plans to purchase a site in Georgia to locate its first commercial-scale biorefinery and said it has executed a letter of intent with a timber company to provide feedstock for the proposed facility.

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Dissecting a DHA

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By Patrick C. Miller

July 20, 2018

Combustible dust fire and explosion expert Jason Krbec discusses the critical role dust hazard analyses play in incident prevention.

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The USDA has released its Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production report for July, announcing corn use for fuel alcohol reached 470 million bushels in May, up 6 percent from April and up 4 percent when compared to May 2017.

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In mid-July Attis Industries announced plans to purchase a site in Georgia to locate its first commercial-scale biorefinery and said it has executed a letter of intent with a timber company to provide feedstock for the proposed facility.

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Hawaii Gas is seeking proposals from local and national suppliers who can provide up to 80,000 therms per day of renewable natural gas (RNG), which can be in the form of raw biogas and/or biomethane.

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The California Energy Commission awarded grants July 11 to demonstrate how a microgrid can keep a bioenergy plant online and to study how the 21st century grid can help low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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U.S. corn exports to Colombia have set a new record every year since the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) entered into force into 2012, showing the effectiveness of strong trade policy and subsequent market development work.

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Pellet exports from Vietnam grew from nearly zero to approximately 2.75 million metric tons per year over the past seven years, according to FutureMetrics. The organization has published a new white paper exploring the country's pellet export sector.

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A new television ad launched today by Growth Energy, the nation's top ethanol advocate, casts a spotlight on the repeated calls from rural America for pro-biofuel policies from President Trump and the U.S. EPA.

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