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Biodiesel Magazine Podcast: Strategic Biofuels: Louisiana’s Multifaceted Green Fuels Project

by Anna Simet (Biodiesel Magazine) This week’s Biodiesel Magazine podcast features, Paul Schubert, CEO of Strategic Biofuels, Interview by Anna Simet, editor of Biodiesel Magazine. LISTEN

September 29, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Electrocatalytic CO2 Utilization

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) CO2 is the ubiquitous feedstock, available from a range of point sources, as well as in the atmosphere. It’s the only feedstock measured in gigatons.

September 29, 2022 Read Full Article

Iberdrola and Foresa Advance in Their Alliance to Lead Green Methanol Production in Spain

(Iberdrola/Electric Energy Online) • The first of the projects, Green UMIA, will be located in Pontevedra and will lead to a reduction of 58,000 tonnes of CO2 in its first

September 28, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Policymakers and energy security hawks love fuel, but consumers love renewable chemicals that power the everyday applications in their lives — resins, solvents, nutraceuticals, intermediates

September 28, 2022 Read Full Article

eFuels, by Land and Sea, Get Their Grips on the Ships, Road Trips

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) For more than a decade we have been covering the emergence of e-Fuels — renewable fuels made from (usually waste) CO2 and green hydrogen, the latter

September 26, 2022 Read Full Article

LanzaJet Affirms Its Commitment to Scale Production of SAF

(LanzaJet/Ethanol Producer Magazine) … LanzaJet, Inc. is a global leader in clean energy technology and production. The LanzaJet Process is a proprietary alcohol-to-jet technology which converts low-carbon ethanol into sustainable transportation fuels,

September 26, 2022 Read Full Article

Will Algae Biofuels Become Viable? Pioneers of Commercial Biofuel Production Had to Shut Shop or Diversify Their Portfolio

by Rahul Jain (Down to Earth) … It can synthesise large volumes of oil (20 times more than that of mustard per acre), grow fast (10 times quicker than terrestrial plants)

September 25, 2022 Read Full Article

Global Clean Energy Action Forum, the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Statement – Governments and Industry Affirm the Future of Bio-Based Fuels, Chemical, and Materials

(Biofuture Platform) The government and industry members of the Biofuture Platform Initiative and Campaign announce the release of their Biofuture Statement that affirms the essential role of sustainable bio-based fuels, chemicals,

September 23, 2022 Read Full Article

Carbon Capture Magazine Podcast: Panel Preview: Comparative Study of Carbon Capture Technologies

(Carbon Capture Magazine) Listen to the latest Carbon Capture Magazine podcast featuring Jerrel Branson with CarbonCap Holdings and panelist at the upcoming 2022 National Carbon Capture Conference & Expo Interviewer:

September 22, 2022 Read Full Article

Air Company Fuels First Ever Test Flight with Jet Fuel Made from CO2, Beginning the Next-Generation of the World’s Fuel Industry

(Air Company/North American Clean Energy) Air Company, the world’s leading carbon technology company that creates carbon-negative alcohols and fuels from Carbon Dioxide (CO2), announced the launch of its Sustainable Aviation

September 22, 2022 Read Full Article

Virgin Voyages Announces Sustainable Marine Fuel Partnerships

by Natalie Clarkson (Virgin Voyages) Virgin Voyages is working to make its cruise ships more sustainable, through partnerships with independent sustainability experts the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, and three leading waste-based sustainable

September 21, 2022 Read Full Article

Natural Gas Suppliers Tout Certified Gas, RNG as ‘Bridge Products’ to Decarbonization

by Andrew Baker (Natural Gas Intelligence) Decarbonizing natural gas consumption is considerably more complex than doing so for electricity, but U.S. gas suppliers are up for the challenge, industry players

September 15, 2022 Read Full Article

Univerity of Hull Biohydrogen Research Focuses on Unlocking Potential of Biorefinery Waste Streams

(University of Hull) The University of Hull has been awarded £245,000 to investigate the possibility of producing hydrogen from the waste streams produced by biorefineries. The funding was awarded by the

September 14, 2022 Read Full Article

Paving the Way for Solar Fuels: Synhelion Produces Solar Syngas on an Industrial Scale for the First Time

(Synhelion) Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source. The Swiss solar fuel

September 14, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Utilizing Electricity to Produce Intermediates from CO2 and Biomass

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) This project funded by the US Department of Energy and led by NREL’s Josh Schaidle aims to Guide existing and future research and development efforts

September 14, 2022 Read Full Article

Open for Business! SCOA Teams Up with North Dakota to Develop Clean Energy Projects; Achieve Net-Zero

(Sumitomo Corporation of Americas/PR Newswire) Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (“SCOA”) announced today its partnership with the state of North Dakota to evaluate and develop businesses within the energy transition market, with the intent

September 14, 2022 Read Full Article

Breweries Feeling the Sting of Carbon Dioxide Shortage

by Zachary Halaschak (Washington Examiner) … The shortage began in 2020 after the pandemic took hold and people spent weeks sheltering indoors and not traveling. Carbon dioxide is a byproduct

September 13, 2022 Read Full Article

Who Certifies Carbon Dioxide Removal? An Evolving Map of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Certification and Standards Ecosystem

(Arizona State University) Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) will be necessary to fulfill the hundreds of pledges to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. As with any industry, standard methodologies and certification are

September 12, 2022 Read Full Article

Algae Biofuel Back from Dead, Now with Carbon Capture

by Tina Casey (Clean Technica) Algae biofuel could have another moment in the sun, now that more federal dollars are pouring into carbon capture-and-recycling technology. — Algae biofuel stakeholders have

September 9, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Improving Formate upgrading by Cupriavidus necator

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The project goal is to develop the natural formatotroph, C.necator, as a robust microbial chassis for efficient formate conversion to value-added products in support of

September 9, 2022 Read Full Article

DOE Roadmap Highlights the Potential of CCUS at Ethanol Plants

by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine) The U.S. Department of Energy on Sept. 7 released its Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap. The document, in part, identifies U.S. ethanol plants as among the lowest-cost

September 9, 2022 Read Full Article

Lessons from Natural Photosynthesis: Conversion of CO2 to Raw Materials for Plastic!

(Osaka Metropolitan University) Technology sequesters CO2 emissions In plants, natural photosynthesis binds carbon dioxide (CO2) to organic compounds, which can then be converted into glucose or starch. These useful molecules can be

September 8, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Novel Cell-Free Enzymatic Systems for CO2 Capture

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) To develop, innovate, and reduce costs of CO2 Separations using enzyme-based technology to accelerate CO2 capture alternative solvents with low regeneration energy. That’s the goal

September 8, 2022 Read Full Article

Podcast: The Landmark Inflation Reduction Act: What’s in it for Carbon Capture?

(Carbon Capture Magazine) Produced by Carbon Capture Magazine, the podcast features Jessie Stolark, Public Policy & Member Relations Manager and Madelyn Morrison, Government Affairs Manager from the Carbon Capture Coalition

September 8, 2022 Read Full Article

Register for DOE’s Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap Event with Secretary Granholm and Gina McCarthy on Sept. 7

(U.S. Department of Energy) On Wednesday, September 7, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy will host a roundtable of diverse industry leaders

September 8, 2022 Read Full Article

Inflation Reduction Act Charts a New Course for US Biofuels Industry

by Corey Lavinsky (S&P Global) … Though ethanol is mentioned only thrice in the lengthy law, ethanol producers will benefit from its carbon capture, utilization and storage provisions, clean fuel production

September 8, 2022 Read Full Article

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and University of California Berkeley, to Develop Technology Converting Air to Sugar

(Coca-Cola Europacific Partners) CCEP Ventures to partner with Peidong Yang Research Group to develop scalable methods of converting captured air (CO2) into sugar; Technology could reduce some of the largest

September 7, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Integration of CO2 Electrolysis with Microbial Syngas

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) By producing valuable products out of CO2, this project will incentivize CCU to realize carbon circular economy opportunities. That’s the promise of this project funded

September 7, 2022 Read Full Article

Algae and Seaweed in the Inflation Reduction Act

(Algae Biomass Organization) The Inflation Reduction Act that was passed by Congress and Signed by President Biden last month has been hailed as a milestone in climate progress for the

September 6, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 State of Advanced Ethanol

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) This week on ABLC CONNECT, we looked at the world of Advanced ethanol – markets, players, technologies, policy. 2G ethanol, sugarcane, ethanol as an intermediate,

September 5, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Novozymes – from the last syllable you can guess at their dominance in the world od creating disruptive yields through enzyme innovation — but did

September 1, 2022 Read Full Article

Bright to Build CO2 Liquefaction Plant in the US

(Bright Renewables) Bright Renewables has been awarded a contract for the realization of a turnkey CO2 liquefaction plant with a capacity of 800 kg per hour on the West Coast of

August 31, 2022 Read Full Article

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $16.5 Million in Funding for Carbon Utilization Projects

(U.S. Department of Energy) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s (FECM’s) Carbon Utilization Program announced the selection of seven projects totaling $16.5

August 31, 2022 Read Full Article

The Tractor Seller Trying to Get Farmers to Embrace Sustainability

by Debra Kahn (Politico) … Madelyn Koester is a senior project manager on John Deere’s sustainability team. She isn’t on the equipment side; she works for Deere’s digital arm, which is

August 30, 2022 Read Full Article

Cranfield Awarded Funding to Research Clean Hydrogen Generation from Biomass

(Cranfield University) Funding for researchers at Cranfield University to look at new ways to generate hydrogen energy from biomass has been announced by the Government. The technology would allow biomass – organic

August 30, 2022 Read Full Article

2021 Project Peer Review Report

(U.S. Department of Energy) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) hosted its virtual 2021 Project Peer Review on March 8‒12, 15‒16, and 22‒26, 2021. During the event,

August 29, 2022 Read Full Article

DOE Awards $29 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen Production

(U.S. Department of Energy) Industry and Universities Will Work to Reduce the Cost of Clean Hydrogen to Deliver Cheap Electricity; New $32 Million Funding Opportunity will Support Clean Hydrogen Technologies

August 29, 2022 Read Full Article

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Online Course — October 31-November 4, 2022 or January 17-20, 2023 — ONLINE

Master the technology pathways, its business drivers, economics and deployment strategies — This course is intended for those in business, commercial and strategically focused roles within the energy sector; in particular

August 26, 2022 Read Full Article

Over $40M Investment to Kickstart $20B in Carbon Capture Projects

(Emissions Reduction Alberta/Carbon Capture Magazine) The Government of Alberta is investing over $40 million through Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) in 11 projects focused on advancing the province’s global leadership in

August 26, 2022 Read Full Article

DOE Announces $540 Million for Research Activities into Clean Energy Technologies

by JimLane (Biofuels Digest) From Washington comes news that the U.S. Department of Energy will make more than $540 million in awards for university- and National Laboratory-led research into clean energy

August 25, 2022 Read Full Article

Anaergia’s Tønder Plant Will Supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for Green E-Methanol Production as Fuel for Container Ships

(Anaergia/Business Wire) Anaergia Inc. (“Anaergia” or the “Company”) (TSX:ANRG) today announced it has signed an agreement with European Energy A/S (“European Energy”). Under the terms of this agreement Anaergia is to supply European

August 25, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The company has moved past an ethanol and protein positioning to “a leading agri-tech company committed to transforming our platform to process annually renewable crops

August 25, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Net Zer0 1 – sound exciting., And it is! A company that remade itself as it saw the decisive shift in biofuels from lower carbon

August 24, 2022 Read Full Article

Heliogen and Dimensional Energy Announce First-of-its-Kind Collaboration to Produce Carbon-Free Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Concentrated Sunlight and Green Hydrogen

(Heliogen) Initiative to demonstrate technology and produce jet fuel reserves for commercially viable carbon neutral flight — Heliogen, Inc. (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy technology, today

August 23, 2022 Read Full Article

Podcast: Making Sure the Industry Is Carbon Management Ready

(Carbon Capture Magazine) Featuring PMatt Fry, Senior Policy Manager, Great Plains Institute LISTEN

August 23, 2022 Read Full Article

Less than $3/G, No Subsidy, No Kidding: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to T2C Energy Technology

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Perhaps the most startling and under-appreciated story of the year. A heavy-duty transport fuel, made using abundant, fungible and affordable biomethane, validated at $2.91 per

August 22, 2022 Read Full Article

Maybe This Time: Aries Clean Technologies Hits a Milestone in the Never-Ending Battle for a Great Biochar Business

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … You can finance a bioenergy project making gases and solids, so long as your gas is a solid stream, and, solidly sold, and your

August 22, 2022 Read Full Article

Cranfield Awarded Funding to Research Clean Hydrogen Generation from Biomass

August 18, 2022 Read Full Article

With a €43M EU Grant and €1.2M from a VC, This Startup Plans to Turn CO2 Emissions into Gold

by Mike Butcher (Tech Crunch) Now Copenhagen-based biotech company SecondCircle thinks it also has a novel approach. It claims to be able to capture CO2 from industrial emitters at the point of emission using

August 17, 2022 Read Full Article

A Simple, Cheap Material for Carbon Capture, Perhaps from Tailpipes

by Robert Sanders (Berkeley News) … Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine — the main component of Formica — chemists have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon

August 16, 2022 Read Full Article

LCFC Recommends the California Air Resources Board to Recognize Relevance of Climate Smart Agriculture

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In California, the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition sent a letter to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to recommend the body to recognize farming practices and

August 15, 2022 Read Full Article

“The Roof Is Lifting” – The United States to Inject $800 Billion into Climate, Energy Sectors as IRA 2022 Passes to Biden for Signing

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … One of the Digesterati described the shift in momentum: “The roof is lifting off the renewable energy industry broadly with the IRA and the Infrastructure

August 15, 2022 Read Full Article

Ecospray and Ruhe Advance Biomethane Projects

(Bioenergy Insight) Italian company Ecospray and Germany-based Ruhe have signed new agreements for the supply of two biomethane plants and three CO2-liquefaction plants for customers of Green Line Liquid Anlagenbau, which is an affiliated company of

August 11, 2022 Read Full Article

U.S. Farmers Receive $1.2 Million in Carbon Farming Payments through CarbonNOW® Program

(Locus Agricultural Solutions) Payments were made to farmers in Locus Agricultural Solutions’ CarbonNOW® carbon farming program, through funding from Anew Climate, LLC (previously Bluesource) and Green Star Royalties; Compensation was

August 10, 2022 Read Full Article

Sinopec Capital and Johnson Matthey Explore Strategic Collaboration across Decarbonisation and Hydrogen Technologies

(Johns Matthey) On 2nd August 2022, A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Sinopec Capital and Johnson Matthey China signals the start of active dialogues to explore joint possibilities across green

August 9, 2022 Read Full Article

Unlocking Biofertilizer as Additional Revenue Source

by Chris Peterson (Biomass Magazine) When considering opportunities to produce and sell digestate, there are legal Issues for renewable natural gas project developers to consider. … It is no wonder

August 9, 2022 Read Full Article

Widespread Trials of Biomass Crop Cultivation to Launch in UK

(Bioenergy Insight) The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UCEH) is leading new UK-wide trials of crops and trees which can be used to produce sustainable energy from plant material.

August 9, 2022 Read Full Article

Cure or Curse: Can ‘Next-Generation’ Biofuels Turbocharge the Net Zero Transition?

by Cecilia Keating (Business Green) … But Gordon McManus, research director for refining and oil products team for the Europe, Middle East, Africa region at leading research and consulting business Wood Mackenzie, said

August 8, 2022 Read Full Article

MHIENG’s First Compact CO2 Capture System Goes into Commercial Operation at Biomass Power Plant in Hiroshima — Fully Integrated Customer Support Package to Follow —

(Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) On-site use of captured CO2 at power plant will turn entire Seifu Shinto suburb carbon negative; Through proprietary CO2 capture technologies, MHIENG provides diverse solutions for small-scale facilities

August 3, 2022 Read Full Article

Investment Urgently Needed in New Technology to Mitigate CO2 Emissions at Airports, Cranfield University Report Reveals

(Cranfield University) Multi-million-pound investment needed in technologies such as direct air capture; Some airports could become green energy ‘power stations’ to fuel the aircraft they serve; Carbon capture technology should be integrated alongside

August 2, 2022 Read Full Article

Infinium and Electrofuels: They Might Be Giants

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … “Major players in the fuels and chemicals industries have begun serious development of [new] processes

July 29, 2022 Read Full Article

Carbon Removal Is Moving Full Steam Ahead. So Is Climate Change.

by Vanessa Montalbano (Washington Post) … The Energy Department is also set on boosting approaches that would remove gigatons of

July 26, 2022 Read Full Article

Barriers to Scaling the Long-Duration Carbon Dioxide Removal Industry

(Carbon Plan) … Awareness is growing around the need for long-duration carbon dioxide removal (CDR) — a suite of largely nascent

July 26, 2022 Read Full Article

Gevo Closes on Net-Zero1 Production Facility Land in Lake Preston, SD and Plans Fall Groundbreaking

(Gevo) Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is pleased to announce closing on the purchase of approximately 245 acres near Lake Preston, South

July 26, 2022 Read Full Article

Virtuous Cycles: Breakthroughs in the Use of Bacteria Are Helping Us to Build a New Green Economy.

by Peter Forbes (New Humanist) … Humans are finally learning from the original carbon cycle, which has governed Earth for 4

July 26, 2022 Read Full Article

MGC and Tokuyama Corporation Begin Joint Study on Social Deployment of Circular Carbon Methanol Utilizing CO2, First of its Kind in Japan

(Tokuyama Corporation and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company) Tokuyama Corporation (Tokuyama; Registered Headquarters: Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture; President: Hiroshi Yokota) and

July 26, 2022 Read Full Article

The Ethanol Industry’s Commercial Capture

by Katie Schroeder (Ethanol Producer Magazine) CO2 from corn ethanol plants is a great candidate for capture and sequestration because

July 22, 2022 Read Full Article

F1 Continues Push to Hit Net Zero Carbon by 2030 Target

(Formula 1) Development of a 100% sustainable fuel, slashing the use of single-use plastics and reviewing travel and freight logistics

July 20, 2022 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Earnings season calls, and one of the bioeconomy’s most dynamic and innovative public companies has

July 20, 2022 Read Full Article

Can We Hack DNA in Plants to Help Fight Climate Change?

by Madeleine Stone (National Geographic) Using CRISPR genome editing on a few common crops, a team of plant and soil