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JUNE 4, 2013

United Airlines executed a definitive purchase agreement with AltAir Fuels ( earlier post ) for cost-competitive, sustainable, bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene at commercial scale. AltAir will produce low-carbon, renewable jet fuel and other renewable products. —AltAir CEO Tom Todaro. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 5, 2010

S4 Energy Solutions LLC , a joint venture by Waste Management, Inc. and InEnTec LLC, plans to develop a plasma gasification facility at Waste Management’s Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Oregon. The planned facility will convert municipal solid waste into synthetic fuels and power. PEM facility equipment overview.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

s (WPC) plasma gasification technology to process municipal and industrial wastes into syngas for use in power generation. There are several facilities operating commercially around the world using WPC technology and several more in final design phase and or construction. Project Apollo plans to utilize Westinghouse Plasma Corp.’s

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced from waste and residue raw materials and Air bp, the international aviation fuel products and services supplier, have signed an agreement to offer an increased volume of sustainable aviation fuel to airport customers in 2020 and 2021.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

A Navy ship has, for the first time, operated on a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) completed final-phase testing of a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel as part of the Navy’s MILSPEC qualification program. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The Oxford Catalysts Group has raised £21 million (US$34 million) before expenses from the conditional placing of 26,250,000 new shares, which will be used to accelerate its ongoing transition from a research and development organization to a commercial product company.

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MARCH 2, 2011

New investors include VantagePoint Venture Partners, the largest investor in this new round; Bright Capital, the venture arm of RU-COM group, a diversified business group based in Russia; and Waste Management. Genomatica has successfully been producing Bio-BDO at pilot scale in 3,000-liter fermentations since the first half of 2010.

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MARCH 28, 2014

This is a key milestone toward commercial scale production, with initial results showing comparable system performance in the scale-up from our 4 barrel/day pilot system in Panama City, Florida to the 100 BBL/day demonstration system in St. A US patent was granted to ARA in 2010 on the CH process. — Rob Sues, CEO of ARA.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Waste feedstocks are defined in the enabling legislation specifically as “ previously used or discarded solid, liquid or contained gaseous material with heating value resulting from industrial, commercial or household food service activities that would otherwise be stored, treated, transferred or disposed. Biofuels mandate.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Launched in September 2010, Nidus uses its partners to identify market opportunities and experienced entrepreneurs to find and develop technologies that address these market needs. Nidus has reviewed hundreds of technologies resulting in three start-ups.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

This investment enables Forge, a Canadian small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) to further development of its Lipid-to-Hydrocarbon (LTH) technology and to construct a first-of-kind, commercial plant with a production capacity of approximately 19 million liters per year (ML/y) (~5 million gallons US).

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MAY 9, 2011

UK-based TMO Renewables Ltd, the developer of a novel thermophilic bacterium and process for converting biomass into fuel ethanol ( earlier post ), has entered into two separate technology partnerships in China. million tonnes of fuel ethanol production in 2010 and 2020. China has targets of 2.0 million and 10.0

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MAY 6, 2011

The Province of Ontario (Canada) has selected Rentech’s proposed Olympiad Renewable Energy Centre (Olympiad Project) in The Township of White River (White River), Ontario, for a proposed supply of up to 1.1 The project will also produce 43 million liters (13 million gallons) annually of renewable naphtha, a chemical feedstock.

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JUNE 2, 2016

The 5-year deal, worth an estimated $3 million per year, will enable BBB to continue using Clean Energy’s Redeem brand of renewable natural gas (RNG), rated up to 90% cleaner than diesel. LNG derived from renewable natural gas) marked with arrows. Redeem is a renewable natural gas vehicle fuel, often referred to as biomethane.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

AMEC will provide engineering and construction expertise to build this first commercial scale facility, valued at more than $100 million. The INEOS Bio process can produce ethanol and renewable energy from numerous feedstocks, including construction waste and municipal solid waste, forestry and agricultural waste.

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JANUARY 2, 2011

to build the world’s second commercial-scale plant to produce jet fuel from waste for its aircraft. In February 2010, British Airways, in partnership with Solena, will establish Europe’s first plant for sustainable jet-fuel and plans to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014. Earlier post.).

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MAY 8, 2014

below the figure for the base year of 2010. lower than the 588 kg of the base year of 2010. The Group now takes one-third of its electric power from renewable sources. In 2013 the Group increased the number of cars and commercial vehicles delivered to customers to 9.73 to 17 g/vehicle in 2013 from 51 g in 2010.

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from isobutanol supplied by Gevo, Inc. —Jim Rekoske, vice president and general manager for Renewable Energy & Chemicals at Honeywell’s UOP.

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APRIL 16, 2013

The new agreement, which includes partners from the commercial aviation sector, follows the initial success of the 2010-2012 “Farm to Fly” initiative. In July 2010, USDA, Airlines for America, Inc.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

USDA funding will be used to construct a 55,000 square foot facility that will produce cellulosic ethanol by converting municipal solid waste and other industrial pulps into advanced biofuels, as well as using conventional renewable biofuel derived from seed corn waste. million grant from the Iowa Power Fund in 2010.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases. Another challenge is—assuming successful large scale commercialization is possible—what to do with all the resulting acetic acid. Carbon Dioxide as a Feedstock.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pa. a syngas to ethanol company, officially launched its semi-commercial “Flexethanol” facility located in Madison, PA. The Madison facility is designed to serve both as commercial-scale proof of the technology as well as a source for learnings to further optimize the technology.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., Immediate applications include processing municipal sewage sludge, processing waste streams from the ethanol industry and converting algae to fuel. The process has a small footprint, produces renewable energy and is water friendly.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

UOP’s hydrotreated renewable jet fuel process and LCA. Boeing and Honeywell’s UOP are commissioning a study on the sustainability of a leading family of saltwater-based plant (halophytes) candidates for renewable jet fuel. The results are expected to be available in late 2010. Click to enlarge. Global Seawater Inc.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Darrin Morgan, director of Biofuel Strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Halophytes thrive in arid land and can be irrigated with seawater waste streams from aquaculture, making halophytes potentially suitable for biofuels development in arid ecosystems with little competing land use potential.

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MARCH 15, 2011

The Genomatica process produces the same BDO product that is currently made from a variety of petroleum-derived feedstocks, but uses 100% renewable feedstocks instead. The demonstration plant is co-located with a corn wet mill owned and operated by Tate & Lyle, providing ready access to a cost-effective, renewable feedstock.

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APRIL 30, 2016

A new study by consultancy Roland Berger defines an integrated roadmap for European road transport decarbonization to 2030 and beyond; the current regulatory framework for vehicle emissions, carbon intensity of fuels and use of renewable fuels covers only up to 2020/2021. BEVs fueled with low carbon, renewable electricity (for PC).

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JUNE 24, 2009

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. This joint demonstration is anticipated to lead to the final design basis for the commercial facilities.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

The team found that the life cycle impacts of algae cultivation are sensitive to several inputs that have been largely overlooked to date: the availability of renewable sources of nutrients and carbon dioxide. Colosi (2010) Environmental Life Cycle Comparison of Algae to Other Bioenergy Feedstocks. Clarens et al. Clarens, Eleazer P.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Genomatica is developing and commercializing sustainable basic and intermediate chemicals made from renewable feedstocks including readily available sugars, biomass, and syngas. Genomatica expects to begin commercial production of Bio-BDO in 2012. billion in 2011 to $98.5 billion by 2020. Small business: BioAmber, Inc.,

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JUNE 21, 2010

LS9, a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has won a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for its “Renewable Petroleum” technology that converts sustainable, plant-based materials into low-carbon fuels and chemicals.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

First, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) rule to implement the long-term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress and also issued the targets for 2010. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). President Obama.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) issued an Incubator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOAs) for a total of approximately $10 million. ( VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in

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JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The latest Investment Plan for the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program prioritizes $100 million in state funds to leverage funding and investments from federal agencies, research institutions, private investors, auto manufacturers and other stakeholders.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The acquisition combines the fiber preparation and pretreatment technologies of SBI and the consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) technology of Mascoma, to create a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid waste) into ethanol and high value co-products.

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