Alaska, Commercial and Renewable

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Through the first-of-its-kind agreement, Twelve, Alaska, and Microsoft will work to advance production and use of Twelve’s E-Jet, a low-carbon jet fuel produced by a power-to-liquids process leveraging the company’s carbon transformation technology. SAF is a core part of Alaska’s five-part pathway to net zero by 2040. Earlier post.).

Alaska

Alaska Renewable Fuel CO2

Gevo produces first cellulosic renewable jet fuel specified for use on commercial airline flights

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2016

has completed production of the world’s first cellulosic renewable jet fuel that is specified for commercial flights. Gevo successfully adapted its patented technologies to convert cellulosic sugars derived from wood waste into renewable isobutanol, which was then further converted into Gevo’s Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) fuel.

Renewable

Renewable Commercial Alaska Fuel

EPIC Fuels supports Alaska Airlines and Gevo commercial aviation flights with alcohol-to-jet fuel

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2016

EPIC Fuels , a fuel supplier to the general and commercial aviation industries, provided expertise in fuel blending as well as technical and logistical support to Alaska and Gevo, Inc., a next generation biofuels company, to enable the first commercial flights using a blend of petroleum based fuel and Gevo’s alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ).

Alaska

Alaska Fuel Commercial Seattle

ASTM ballot greenlights approval of ATJ-SPK biojet from alcohol; Gevo 1st commercial test flight with Alaska Airlines

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2016

Renewable isobutanol company Gevo announced that the ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants and Subcommittee D02.J This approval prepares the way for the use of Gevo ATJ—as well as ATJ-SPK fuels produced by other manufacturers—in commercial operations. J Ballot”). Earlier post.)

Alaska

Alaska Commercial Renewable Standards

Battery-Electric Fishing Vessel Marks A Sea Change For Small Commercial Fishers

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 23, 2023

On a brisk morning this fall, a 46-foot commercial fishing boat will cruise into the cold waters of Sitka, Alaska, and cut the diesel engine. This moment will mark a sea change for Sitka’s small-boat commercial fishing industry: a transition to energy-efficient […]

Commercial

Commercial Alaska Water Electrical

Port of Seattle partners with Alaska Airlines and Boeing to supply sustainable aviation biofuel at Sea-Tac Airport

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The Port of Seattle, Alaska Airlines and Boeing are partnering to move toward powering all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with sustainable aviation biofuel. Over the past five years, Alaska Airlines has become a leader in the pursuit of finding a sustainable supply of biofuels.

Alaska

Alaska Seattle Supplies Washington

Alaska Airlines launching 75 flights powered by 20% biofuel blend in the US; SkyNRG the fuel supplier

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Alaska Airlines will fly 75 commercial passenger flights in the United States powered by a biofuel blend, starting this Wednesday. Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, will continue to operate select flights between Seattle and the two cities over the next few weeks using a 20% blend of renewable biofuel.

Alaska

Alaska Fuel Seattle Power

Neste supplying sustainable aviation fuel to three major US airlines for flights from SFO

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced from waste and residue raw materials, is supplying Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways with sustainable aviation fuel for flights from San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

Alaska

Alaska Supplies San Francisco Fuel

Twelve and Emerging Fuels Technology sign master license agreement to scale SAF production

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2023

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Twelve and EFT upgrade the syngas to aviation fuel.

Fuel

Fuel Production Alaska Carbon

Gevo joins SFO consortium to advance sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

The four airlines—United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, and Cathay Pacific—represent nearly 70% of all flights at SFO, while the four fuel producers include SFO’s two primary suppliers, Chevron Corporation and Shell Oil Company along with Neste and LanzaTech, Inc. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo.

Fuel

Fuel San Francisco Alaska Seattle

Boeing C.E.O. to Step Down in Major Reshuffle at Embattled Plane Maker

Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Stan Deal, the head of commercial airplanes division, will retire immediately and will be replaced by Stephanie Pope, the company’s chief operating officer. The management overhaul comes less than three months after a panel, known as a door plug, blew off a Boeing Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan.

Alaska

Alaska United States 2018 2019

Praj, Gevo to enter commercialization phase of Gevo isobutanol technology for sugarcane and molasses feedstocks

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

In the first phase of development, Praj worked with Gevo’s technology using sugar cane and molasses feedstocks, undertaking test-runs in order to develop a process design package that will now be offered for commercialization to cane juice and molasses-based ethanol plants, as licensees of Gevo’s isobutanol technology.

Commercial

Commercial Juice South America Alaska

EIA: More than 1 billion gallons of renewable drop-in diesel/jet produced worldwide in 2014

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

More than one billion gallons of hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) fuels—renewable, drop-in diesel and jet fuels such as Neste’s NEXBTL—were produced worldwide in 2014, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Finnish Neste is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

Diesel

Diesel Renewable 2014 Alaska

DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The 11 SHARKS projects are: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Mariner

Mariner Universal Grid Design

USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

An open-access paper on their work appears in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. This study tested the effects of depth-cycling on the growth, morphology, and chemical composition of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera, a target species for renewable biomass production. The study authors include Ignacio A.

Mariner

Mariner Water Utah California

Pacific Northwest Transportation and Aviation Consortium Launches Initiative to Assess Regional Biomass Sources for Renewable Jet Fuel

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2010

Alaska Airlines, Boeing, Portland International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Spokane International Airport and Washington State University have launched a strategic initiative to promote aviation biofuel development in the Pacific Northwest. Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh.

Renewable

Renewable Transportation Fuel Portland

DOE awards up to $40M for open-water, grid-connected wave energy testing facility

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The facility will be constructed in Newport, Oregon, by the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Oregon State University and will support innovations in wave energy technologies capable of harnessing the significant wave energy resources along United States coastlines.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Grid Connect Connected

Boeing, UOP, Masdar Institute and Industry Team Launch Study on Sustainability Of Renewable Jet Fuel Made from Halophytes

Green Car Congress

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. Jennifer Holmgren, general manager of UOP Renewable Energy & Chemicals. Click to enlarge.

Renewable

Renewable Fuel Industrial Industry

DOE reports show major potential for wave and tidal energy production near US coasts

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

Although not all of the resource potential identified in these assessments can realistically be developed, the results still represent major opportunities for new water power development in the United States, highlighting specific opportunities to expand on the 6% of the nation’s electricity already generated from renewable hydropower resources.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico EPRI Energy Alaska

Gevo’s cellulosic alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel to be used in NARA test flight; “wood-to-wing”

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

Gevo is a member of the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance ( NARA ) and is providing the organization with technology to enable the commercial scale processing of cellulosic sugars from wood waste into valuable products. earlier post , earlier post , earlier post.). alcohol-to-jet-synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) blendstock.

Fuel

Fuel Waste Renewable Alaska

USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

Green Car Congress

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. Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010.

Renewable

Renewable Standards Fuel Rhode Island

Butamax and Gevo cross-license & settle litigation on bio-isobutanol; Butamax to lead w/ gasoline blending, Gevo w/ alcohol-to-jet

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2015

Army, and US Navy and now expects to secure the MIL-SPEC certification (JP-8 and JP-5) enabling bids on future RFPs for renewable jet fuel by the Defense Logistics Agency. While Butamax and Gevo have cross-licensed all of their patents for making and using isobutanol, both parties will have their own biocatalyst and process technologies.

Gasoline

Gasoline Alaska Grant 2011

Alaska Airlines to be Gevo’s commercial launch partner for renewable alcohol-based jet fuel

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

Gevo has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Alaska Airlines to purchase Gevo’s renewable jet fuel and fly the first commercial flight on alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ). Once approved, this fuel can be seamlessly integrated into the distribution infrastructure and onto commercial aircraft. Earlier post.).

Alaska

Alaska Renewable Commercial Fuel

Obama and Trudeau put majority of US and Canadian Arctic water off-limits to offshore oil and gas leasing

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

million acres which have previously been leased near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. In parallel, Canada is reducing the reliance of Northern communities on diesel, by deploying energy efficiency and renewable power. Obama acted under his authority designated by Section 12a of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

Obama

Obama Water Oil Gas

FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $125 million in five separate contracts to Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce-North America to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel consumption, emissions and noise. Earlier post.). General Electric.

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Engine Fuel Renewable Companies

US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. DOE Funding: $160,000.

Mariner

Mariner Energy Alaska New Jersey

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities will receive funding to purchase battery electric buses, associated charging infrastructure and a back-up generator to maintain bus service in a disaster situation. Description. Alabama A&M University.

Purchase

Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet

15 Air Carriers Sign Non-Binding MOUs on Synthetic Jet Fuel Purchases with Two Providers: AltAir and RenTech

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc. J0.01) formally voted upon and passed a new fuel specification that will enable use of synthetic fuels in commercial aviation.

Purchase

Purchase Fuel Coal Alternative Fuels

Cal Energy Commission adopts report outlining how state transforming transportation system to meet climate goals

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations.

Transportation

Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric

Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

We’re also exploring and assessing new frontiers for oil and gas development from Alaska to the Mid- and South Atlantic. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. So there’s no reason we shouldn’t be using these renewable fuels throughout America.

Obama

Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase

US Departments of Interior and Defense partner to promote renewable energy on federal lands

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) that encourages appropriate development of renewable energy projects on public lands withdrawn (set aside) for defense-related purposes, and other onshore and offshore areas near military installations.

Renewable

Renewable Energy Arizona Wind

US Departments of Interior and Defense partner to promote renewable energy on federal lands

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) that encourages appropriate development of renewable energy projects on public lands withdrawn (set aside) for defense-related purposes, and other onshore and offshore areas near military installations.

Renewable

Renewable Energy Arizona Wind

Study details viable pathway to develop sustainable aviation biofuels industry in Pacific Northwest; hydroprocessing of natural oils seen as the most immediate opportunity

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

path” to help overcome key commercial and sustainability challenges and speed fuel production. Hydroprocessing produces renewable diesel, and can produce 50-70% jet fuel with an additional cracking step. The remaining product would be mostly renewable diesel, with. The example used is Honeywell/UOP’s Renewable Jet Process.

Oil

Oil Industrial Industry Renewable

ARPA-E to award $22M to 18 projects to accelerate production of macroalgae for energy and other uses; MARINER

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Macroalgae can be utilized as a feedstock for domestic transportation fuels, chemicals and other commercial products without competing with food crops for land and water. Finally, the team seeks to demonstrate a prototype harvester that could be adapted to renewable power sources. Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole, MA.

Mariner

Mariner Production Energy Alaska

DOE awards $10.5M for next-generation marine energy systems

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This project will develop modeling tools to explore ways to minimize effects of sediment transport, such as water erosion, displacement, and tilting of the device, and to increase the lifetime of the system by reducing maintenance requirements in commercial-scale deployments.

Mariner

Mariner Energy Maintenance Alaska

Boeing projects $820B market for 7,290 new airplanes in North America over next 20 years

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

—Randy Tinseth, vice president of Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. High fuel prices are intensifying the need for new fuel-efficient airplanes, prompting several airlines in the United States to accelerate their fleet renewal programs. The network carriers are expected to maintain strict capacity discipline.

North America

North America America Market South America

Defense Logistics Agency contracts for 450,000 gallons of drop-in biofuel from Dynamic Fuels and Solazyme for the Navy; largest single government biofuel purchase yet

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2011

a renewable oil and bioproducts company, will help Dynamic Fuels fulfill the contract, which the Navy and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report is the single largest purchase of biofuel in US government history. Solazyme, Inc., The fuel will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in May 2012. Navy in May 2012. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

Purchase

Purchase Fuel Renewable Mariner

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid.

Grid

Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands

Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2017

Examples of eliminations include: Energy Star; Targeted Airshed Grants; the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program; and infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native Villages and the Mexico Border. Sustainable transportation program activities within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy face a combined 49% cut in funding.

2018

2018 EPA 2017 Grant

Proposed Federal CEDA Designed to Help Risky Breakthrough Technologies Cross the Valley of Death; Working with $10+ Billion Fund

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2009

Green Car Congress recently attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street ( REFF- Wall Street ) conference sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). by Bill Cooke. CEDA was proposed in two parallel bills: H.R. 2212 in the House, and S.B. 949 in the Senate.

Design

Design Congress Financing 2009

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels. Overview of WCI.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

Gevo produces first cellulosic renewable jet fuel specified for use on commercial airline flights

EPIC Fuels supports Alaska Airlines and Gevo commercial aviation flights with alcohol-to-jet fuel

ASTM ballot greenlights approval of ATJ-SPK biojet from alcohol; Gevo 1st commercial test flight with Alaska Airlines

Battery-Electric Fishing Vessel Marks A Sea Change For Small Commercial Fishers

Port of Seattle partners with Alaska Airlines and Boeing to supply sustainable aviation biofuel at Sea-Tac Airport

Alaska Airlines launching 75 flights powered by 20% biofuel blend in the US; SkyNRG the fuel supplier

Neste supplying sustainable aviation fuel to three major US airlines for flights from SFO

Twelve and Emerging Fuels Technology sign master license agreement to scale SAF production

Gevo joins SFO consortium to advance sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

Boeing C.E.O. to Step Down in Major Reshuffle at Embattled Plane Maker

Praj, Gevo to enter commercialization phase of Gevo isobutanol technology for sugarcane and molasses feedstocks

EIA: More than 1 billion gallons of renewable drop-in diesel/jet produced worldwide in 2014

DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

Pacific Northwest Transportation and Aviation Consortium Launches Initiative to Assess Regional Biomass Sources for Renewable Jet Fuel

DOE awards up to $40M for open-water, grid-connected wave energy testing facility

Boeing, UOP, Masdar Institute and Industry Team Launch Study on Sustainability Of Renewable Jet Fuel Made from Halophytes

DOE reports show major potential for wave and tidal energy production near US coasts

Gevo’s cellulosic alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel to be used in NARA test flight; “wood-to-wing”

USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

Butamax and Gevo cross-license & settle litigation on bio-isobutanol; Butamax to lead w/ gasoline blending, Gevo w/ alcohol-to-jet

Alaska Airlines to be Gevo’s commercial launch partner for renewable alcohol-based jet fuel

Obama and Trudeau put majority of US and Canadian Arctic water off-limits to offshore oil and gas leasing

FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

15 Air Carriers Sign Non-Binding MOUs on Synthetic Jet Fuel Purchases with Two Providers: AltAir and RenTech

Cal Energy Commission adopts report outlining how state transforming transportation system to meet climate goals

Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

US Departments of Interior and Defense partner to promote renewable energy on federal lands

US Departments of Interior and Defense partner to promote renewable energy on federal lands

Study details viable pathway to develop sustainable aviation biofuels industry in Pacific Northwest; hydroprocessing of natural oils seen as the most immediate opportunity

ARPA-E to award $22M to 18 projects to accelerate production of macroalgae for energy and other uses; MARINER

DOE awards $10.5M for next-generation marine energy systems

Boeing projects $820B market for 7,290 new airplanes in North America over next 20 years

Defense Logistics Agency contracts for 450,000 gallons of drop-in biofuel from Dynamic Fuels and Solazyme for the Navy; largest single government biofuel purchase yet

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

Proposed Federal CEDA Designed to Help Risky Breakthrough Technologies Cross the Valley of Death; Working with $10+ Billion Fund

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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