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JUNE 26, 2009

in 2008, against 3.3% In addition to high oil prices and the financial crisis, the increased use of new renewable energy sources, such as biofuels for road transport and wind energy for electricity generation, had a noticeable and mitigating impact on CO 2 emissions. billion tonnes in 2008. Source: PBL. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has not found evidence to support a finding of severe “economic harm” that would warrant granting a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). evidence, such as the current price for renewable fuel credits, called RINs, which are used. EPA also looked at empirical.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the availability of funds for Fiscal Year 2012 for two key programs to encourage the use of renewable biomass and production of advanced biofuels. Payments will be made to producers of advanced biofuels derived from renewable biomass, other than corn kernel starch.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

US subsidies for fuels and renewable energy, 2002-2008. The study, “Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008”, found that fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-year period, while subsidies for renewable fuels totaled $29 billion. Source: Adeyeye et al. Adeyeye et al.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel is to be trialed in day-to-day use in Finland by a fleet of road tanker trucks from the beginning of June onwards. The vehicles will fill up with 100% NExBTL renewable diesel at the Neste Oil Truck station at the distribution terminal adjacent to the company’s Porvoo refinery.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Global Bioenergies has reached two milestones—the labscale performance and the industrial process scale-up—of its process to produce renewable isobutene, one of them more than 2 months in advance. The BioMA+ project is financed by the ADEME in the context of the French “Investissements d’Avenir” State program. million (US$5.5

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. Founded in 2008, Global Bioenergies develops processes to convert renewable resources into fuels and materials. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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MAY 9, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, signed an agreement to license technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at a facility in Louisiana. Honeywell Green Diesel is a drop-in replacement for traditional diesel. Honeywell Green Diesel is a drop-in replacement for traditional diesel.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency John Laird released a landscape-level draft renewable energy and conservation plan covering more than 22 million acres in the California desert. The plan also includes an analysis of the potential environmental impacts of these alternatives.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Aeromexico is using a 15% blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, produced from camelina using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, on flights on its Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica route, marking one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service.

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MAY 9, 2011

A renewable energy share of around 30% by 2030 would be “appropriate” for the UK, with scope for a higher share (e.g. A renewable energy share of around 30% by 2030 would be “appropriate” for the UK, with scope for a higher share (e.g. —Renewable Energy Review. Renewable transport.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The California Air Resources Board adopted unanimously a regulation establishing a 33% renewable electricity standard. Under the regulation, one-third of the electricity sold in the state in 2020 must come from renewable sources of energy. The new regulation will be one of AB 32’s largest emission-reduction strategies.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Seventy-six per cent of electricity consumption at managed operations is from renewable energy and most of the operations have significantly lower carbon intensities than sector averages. Rio Tinto introduced its first climate change target in 2008 and beat its most recent target.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AltAir Fuels LLC ( earlier post ) will receive $5 million to expand production of renewable diesel fuels at its Paramount facility in Los Angeles County from 30 million gallons per year to 40 million gallons per year, and allow for processing of additional feedstocks. Renewable diesel. ARV-14-021 ).

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JULY 27, 2010

So the new and innovative AB 811 — property assessed clean energy bond program — scheduled to roll out this month, looked like a godsend with its easy-to-get loans for property owners to fund energy improvements, including solar photovoltaic (PV) systems to generate renewable green power, for example.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. quadrillion BTUs in 2008. 51 in 2008. The increase in renewables is a really good story, especially in the wind arena. The estimated US energy use in 2009 equaled 94.6 22,09, 2.16 88 quads, respectively.

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APRIL 9, 2020

With the use of renewables to produce the hydrogen, the entire energy chain can be clean. The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency responsible for regulating shipping, has set a global target to cut annual emissions by at least 50% by 2050 from 2008 levels.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

General Motors recently renewed its five-year agreement with research partner Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh to continue developing technologies that could allow future production vehicles to drive autonomously. The lab’s multiple projects are aligned with GM’s next-generation advanced crash-avoidance technologies.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of those vehicles is a Mercedes-Benz E-Class powered by unblended renewable diesel produced by UOP’s Ecofining process ( earlier post ), using oil from algae provided by Solazyme. Green diesel offers value as a blending stock for refiners seeking to enhance existing diesel fuels and expand the diesel pool. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 22, 2017

The California Green Innovation Index has tracked key economic and environmental indicators at the regional, state, national and international level since 2008. Other highlights of this year’s Green Innovation Index include: In 2016, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the US were 12.5% below their 2006 levels.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

The USDA Rural Development has selected for funding 68 study grants nationwide to determine the feasibility of renewable energy projects. Funding is made available through the Rural Energy for America Program under the 2008 Farm Bill. In all, studies will be funded in 27 states and the Western Pacific.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Imperium Renewables, and Mesa Engineering.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

The company’s plan to decrease carbon emissions involves the possibility of purchasing low-emissions electricity from power sources such as hydro, wind and solar, as well as its own power generation from renewable sources. Udokan Copper (earlier known as Baikal Mining Company) was established in 2008 to develop the Udokan copper deposit.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A three-year biofuel trial organized by Neste Oil, Helsinki Region Transport (HSL), and Proventia has recently been completed, and the results have shown that Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel can significantly reduce local emissions that have a direct impact on urban air quality. From 2008 onwards, some ran on 100% NExBTL.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

GW at the end of 2008, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. More than 27 GW of new wind power generation capacity came online in 2008, 36% more than in 2007. The leading markets in terms of new installed capacity in 2008 were the US and China. The global wind market for turbine installations in 2008 was worth about €36.5

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced interim rule changes to three renewable energy programs—the Biorefinery Assistance Program; the Repowering Assistance Program; and the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels—that are intended to create jobs in rural areas and increase the production and use of renewable energy.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

These loans would provide financing to produce renewable fuels from woody biomass, municipal solid waste and energy grasses such as switch grass, miscanthus and arundo donax. Congress established the Biorefinery Assistance Program in the 2008 Farm Bill. It reauthorized and extended the program in the 2014 Farm Bill.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

UOP LLC’s renewable jet fuel process technology will be used to produce almost 600,000 gallons of renewable jet fuel for the US Navy and Air Force as part of a joint program for the US Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) for alternative fuels testing and certification. UOP’s Renewable Jet Process Chemistry. Source: UOP.

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APRIL 7, 2010

However, even with increases in 2010 and 2011, projected CO 2 emissions in 2011 are lower than annual emissions from 1999 through 2008. million bbl/d in 2009, up about 370,000 bbl/d from 2008. in 2009 after having risen by 4% in 2008. in 2009, will increase by 2.1% in 2010 and 1.1% million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2010 and 1.6

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MARCH 12, 2009

Average CO 2 emissions from new cars sold in the UK in 2008 fell to 158.0 g/km in 2008—4.2% The SMMT report notes that the slowdown in the overall new car market in 2008/09 is likely to mean a reduction in the pace of fleet renewal, resulting in a slower pace for dropping emissions in the parc. In 2008, 48.7%

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APRIL 24, 2009

CO 2 data from Antarctic ice cores (green points), Mauna Loa Observatory (red curve), and the global network (blue dots). million tons of methane in the atmosphere at the end of December 2008. Methane levels rose in 2008 for the second consecutive year after a 10-year lull. Credit: NOAA. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Residential solar PV systems are now as much as 70% cheaper than in 2008.

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MAY 24, 2022

FAME is a renewable alternative fuel (biodiesel) largely produced from recycled cooking oils and renewable oil sources. This B30 biofuel blend can reduce lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by up to 26% compared to standard marine fuel oil. All biofuel refueling during the trial will be at Rotterdam.

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MARCH 20, 2012

For this production run, Albemarle will use NAWCWD alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technologies (developed by Michael Wright, Benjamin Harvey and Roxanne Quintana, earlier post ) to process Cobalt’s bio n-butanol into renewable jet fuel at its Baton Rouge, La. processing facility. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Alcohol to Jet. Earlier post.).

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MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Ng, and Garry L.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The program is part of Neste Oil’s efforts aimed at using algae oil as a raw material for producing NExBTL renewable diesel in the future. At SYKE’s Marine Research Centre, the use of planktonic algae as a source of bioenergy has been studied since 2008 during several national and international projects.

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APRIL 28, 2010

The programs are authorized under the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (The Farm Bill). The proposed rules affect the following three renewable energy programs administered by USDA Rural Development: Biorefinery Assistance Program. The remaining payment would be based on the amount of energy produced from renewable biomass.

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