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DECEMBER 18, 2015

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff posted 32 new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications for comments at the LCFS website. The LCFS is a regulation to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of fuels sold in California by 10% by 2020. The LCFS applies to liquid and non-liquid fuels. Earlier post.).

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MAY 29, 2015

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest up to $100 million in a Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership to support the infrastructure needed to make more renewable fuel options available to American consumers. USDA will post a Notice of Solicitation of Applications in June.

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable diesel over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts and making UPS one of the largest users of renewable diesel in the world. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Flint Hills Resources Renewables, LLC, a leading US ethanol producer, will become a customer of Edeniq, Inc., a biomaterials and sustainable fuels company, in addition to being an investor. The equity investment was led by existing investors, as well as new investor Flint Hills Resources Renewables, LLC.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Thomas Bobik, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology at Iowa State University is heading an effort to redesign an enzyme for the bio-based production of isobutene, a gas that is currently used in the production of a variety of chemicals and in the manufacture of other fuel additives, adhesive, plastics and synthetic rubber.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. It also continues investing in biomass-to-sugar technology including handling cellulosic biomass, such as REAC Fuel.

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JULY 17, 2012

Knittel/Smith results for implied gasoline price effects from elimination of ethanol for 2010 using Du/Hayes model and pooled-sample estimates. Put simply, the empirical results merely reflect the fact that ethanol production increased during the sample period whereas the ratio of gasoline to crude oil prices decreased.

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JUNE 26, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a proposed rule under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program that would set the minimum amount of renewable fuels that must be supplied to the market in calendar year 2019, as well as the biomass based diesel volume standard for calendar year 2020.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline. Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Xinhua reports that China’s State Administration of Grain (SAG) said that China will expand production and consumption of bioethanol fuel this year as the country seeks more channels to use corn and grain stockpiles. 2018 fuel ethanol production is forecast at 1.04 China’s end-of-year corn stock estimates (2017/2018 values forecasted).

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, has signed an agreement with ASA Ethanol Holdings, LLC to buy two ethanol plants that had been previously owned by VeraSun Energy Corporation. The purchase of the plant from Renew gives us additional production capacity. and Albion, Neb.

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JULY 8, 2011

Project LIBERTY, sponsored by POET, LLC, will produce up to 25 million gallons of ethanol per year and will be located in Emmetsburg, Iowa. million gallons of gasoline annually and fulfill more than 25% of the projected 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard Requirement for biomass-based cellulosic ethanol. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 16, 2012

EPA has informed the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) that the RFA Model E15 Misfueling Mitigation Plan would generally be sufficient to satisfy the partial waivers’ requirement for a misfueling mitigation plan. Renewable Fuels Association. and no more than 15% vol. Earlier post.). and no more than 15% vol.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $78 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment in two consortia to support research and development of algae-based and biomass-based bio-hydrocarbon fuels and infrastructure. Led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

Independent studies as well as Iowa State University research sponsored by POET, have shown that this amount of residue removal will not cause significant nutrient loss. A third party study commissioned by POET has shown that fuel from Project LIBERTY has greenhouse-gas intensity 111% below gasoline. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Cellic CTec3 allows the cost of producing ethanol from biomass to approach the level of corn ethanol and gasoline, according to the company. Fiberight will open a small-scale plant in Lawrenceville, Virginia, this year, and a plant producing 6 million gallons per year in Blairstown, Iowa, in 2013.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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APRIL 22, 2010

That volume would represent more than 20% of the cellulosic ethanol mandated in the US Renewable Fuel Standard. Today, the US effectively has a 90% mandate for oil in the gasoline supply. With regular gasoline limited to a 10% blend and a lack of higher blend infrastructure, there is no market for cellulosic ethanol.”.

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JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. The 5-year fuel savings will pay for a 3-kW system.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. In addition, she said the Iowa State team has already pulled in multiple partners willing to help commercialize distributed biorefineries. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center.

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JULY 26, 2012

Through the joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) , USDA and the DOE are working to develop economically and environmentally sustainable sources of renewable biomass and increase the availability of renewable fuels and biobased products. The oils will be hydrotreated to produce diesel and jet fuel.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Iowa State University. valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy. 1,400,260.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The project “Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel” (0938033) will be led by Rakesh Agrawal, with colleagues Mahdi Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. The overarching goal of this project is to develop improved processes for the direct conversion of lignin to liquid fuels. Fungal fermentation of cellulose for fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

A team from Iowa State University and ConocoPhillips, Biofuels R&D performed a techno-economic study examining the fast pyrolysis of corn stover to bio-oil with subsequent upgrading of the bio-oil to naphtha and diesel range fuels. Fuel product value estimates are $3.09 per gallon of gasoline equivalent ($0.82

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

This, they assert, erroneously treats all uses of bioenergy as carbon-neutral, renewable energy regardless of the source of the biomass, and could create strong economic incentives for large-scale land conversion as countries around the world tighten carbon caps. Earlier post.). —Melillo et al. Biofuels industry reaction.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Renewable Power (4 projects). Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Following years of debate, the EPA said earlier this month it will study the possibilities of cutting the amount of ethanol in the United States' gasoline supply. Since 2007, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has required growing amounts of ethanol to be blended into U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Instead, it proposes and seeks comment on adjustments to the way that annual renewable fuel percentages are calculated. The agency proposes to use this value to adjust the way renewable fuel percentages are calculated.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

The estimated volume of gasoline and diesel exempted is 13,420 million gallons; the estimated renewable volume obligations (RVO) exempted is 1,430 million RINs. The exempted refinery is not subject to the requirements of an obligated party for fuel produced during the compliance year for which the exemption has been granted.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

This step is a result of EPA challenges with the implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS was created to solidify US leadership in low-carbon fuels and drive investment and innovation as well as to make the US energy independent.

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