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APRIL 14, 2022

Envision AESC, a leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, will invest $2 billion to build a new gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County. This brings Envision AESC’s total capacity to approximately 150 GWh worldwide and advances its commitment to reach 300 GWh by 2026.

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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. million) to a consortium bringing together Arkema, the French center for scientific research (CNRS) and Global Bioenergies.

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MAY 18, 2015

Global Bioenergies and its partner Audi ( earlier post ) announced that the first batch of renewable gasoline using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway has been produced. The batch will be presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference to be held in Pomacle on 21 May. Earlier post.)

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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MAY 21, 2020

The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important.

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JULY 9, 2012

France-based Global Bioenergies, an industrial biology company developing sustainable routes to light olefins ( earlier post ), has opened a branch facility in Ames, Iowa. The new operation will focus on Global Bioenergies’ program for bioconversion of renewable resources into isobutene and other light olefins through fermentation.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

Global Bioenergies and LanzaTech have signed a new collaboration agreement to broaden the feedstock flexibility of Global Bioenergies’ renewable isobutene process and the product-portfolio of LanzaTech’s carbon capture technology. Earlier post.). The isobutene was then shipped to Germany and converted into isooctane.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

and HCS Group have entered into a long-term, definitive, binding and bankable renewable isooctane purchase and sale agreement. HCS Group is a leading global provider of solutions for high value specialty hydrocarbons and is active in a broad range of markets, such as automotive, pharmaceutical and agrochemicals.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Mobility company Transdev , through its subsidiary Proxiway, which specializes in car sharing, has launched, in partnership with the Toshiba group, an innovative car sharing service using solar energy and quick-charge points in the eco-district of La Confluence, Lyon, France. The project will run for two years until December 2015.

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JULY 31, 2019

Global cumulative energy storage installations. The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar. In the near term, renewables-plus-storage, especially solar-plus-storage, has become a major driver for battery build. Source: BloombergNEF.

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JULY 4, 2022

As the world contends with a global energy crisis, nuclear power has the potential to play a significant role in helping countries to securely transition to energy systems dominated by renewables, according to a new special report by the IEA. —IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Global Bioenergies has purified its bio‐isobutene to 99.77%, a polymer‐grade level. Global Bioenergies routinely produces isobutene batches using its industrial pilot located in Pomacle‐Bazancourt, eastern France. —Thomas Buhl, Head of business development at Global Bioenergies.

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JUNE 11, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, the developer of a one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, has obtained new €1.4-million —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies. Isobutene is one of the key petrochemical building blocks.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Ballard Power Systems has signed a product development agreement with Hydrogene de France ( HDF Energy ), an independent power producer dedicated to renewable power generation, for the development and integration of a multi-megawatt (MW) scale fuel cell system into HDF Energy’s Renewstable power plant designed for stationary power applications.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Airbus and Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work on the development of hydrogen infrastructure at airports worldwide. Building the infrastructure is just as crucial.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Saipol, the main subsidiary of Groupe Avril, Europe’s largest producer of biodiesel, has received the first Nuseed Carinata grain shipment at its processing facility in Rouen, France. Grown as a scalable cover crop in Argentina, it will be processed into a renewable fuel with best-in-class greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Port Glasgow-based Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited has successfully led a European consortium in a bid for EU funding support for the building and launch of the first sea-going car and passenger ferry fueled by Hydrogen. The supported development is expected to cost around €12.6 million (US$14.6 million) of which €9.3 million (US$10.8

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Plug Power and Lhyfe, a producer and supplier of renewable hydrogen, announced an partnership to pursue and develop jointly green hydrogen generation plants throughout Europe. The agreement builds upon the working relationship already established between the two companies earlier this year. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Global Bioenergies, a France-based industrial biology company developing. European leader in the rubber industry, announced the discovery of a direct biological pathway to convert renewable resources into butadiene, a light olefin core to the petrochemical industry. million) milestone payment to Global Bioenergies.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This acquisition supports Shell’s ambitions to build an integrated RNG value chain at global scale and to grow its low-carbon offerings profitably to customers across multiple sectors. Shell will generate additional value in customer access and global scale in trading and supply chain positions.

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APRIL 11, 2023

As supply scales up and moves from areas with abundant and renewable energy to demand centers, long transmission lines will be a necessity and these pipelines would require larger diameters and higher pressure for cost effectiveness and consequently higher steel grades. France, Spain, and Germany.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) We are very excited about Global Bioenergies’ membership in our initiative. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, has an offtake agreement with American Airlines for 280 million gallons of blended fuel containing sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”) to be delivered over the 7-year term of the agreement. Aemetis, Inc., billion, including LCFS, RFS, 45Q and tax credits. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Currently, global production of low-carbon hydrogen is minimal, its cost is not yet competitive, and its use in promising sectors such as industry and transport remains limited—but there are encouraging signs that it is on the cusp of significant cost declines and widespread global growth, according the IEA’s Global Hydrogen Review 2021.

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JULY 27, 2023

The FMDC in Sokolov rounds out BMW’s existing group of test sites in Aschheim near Munich, Miramas in France, and Arjeplog in Sweden. The Future Mobility Development Center and its charging infrastructure are supplied with one hundred percent green electricity from renewable energy sources.

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MAY 26, 2022

—Pierre Duret of DI2S Consulting & Training and former director Powertrain and Sustainable Mobility, IFP School (France). DI2S Consulting & Training, Paris, France. The core business is the production of renewable fuels and clean, efficient energy conversion technologies. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Although they are targeting an initial implementation France, they see it as broadly applicable. Diagram: Isabelle Plat. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 18, 2018

The Hambach plant in France, which currently produces smart brand electric vehicles, will produce a compact electric car of the new product and technology brand EQ. The Hambach site in France features many years of experience in building fully electric cars.

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JULY 8, 2011

One month after its IPO ( earlier post ), Global Bioenergies, a France-based startup that has engineered a series of bacterial strains that can produce isobutene, has received €475K (US$680K) in funding from the French innovation agency OSEO. straw) into isobutene, one of the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Hydro-Québec and the Aquitaine Regional Council recently formed SCE France, the activities of which will focus on research and technology transfer in transportation electrification and energy storage and conservation. Forecasts for energy storage and conservation show strong growth.

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MAY 28, 2019

Nuclear is the second-largest low-carbon power source in the world today, accounting for 10% of global electricity generation. Over the past 50 years, the use of nuclear power has reduced CO 2 emissions by more than 60 gigatonnes: nearly two years’ worth of global energy-related emissions. It is second only to hydropower at 16%.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To reach that target, the company needs a total battery production capacity of more than 200 GWh by the end of the decade and therefore plans to build eight cell factories worldwide together with partners, four of them in Europe. Joining ACC is the next step on the luxury car maker’s strategic course from “Electric first” to “Electric only”.

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Yet many more are actually needed.

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MAY 9, 2011

Royal DSM, a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, and the French starch and starch derivatives company Roquette Frères today will build a commercial-scale plant for the production of bio-based succinic acid. butanediol. Financial details of the investment will not be disclosed.

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JULY 24, 2012

The global market for these products currently made from petrochemicals is $4 billion. BioAmber is a leading manufacturer of bio-succinic acid from renewable feedstock. BioAmber operates the world’s only dedicated production plant for bio-succinic acid in Pomacle, France with a 350,000-liter commercial scale fermenter.

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MAY 12, 2015

Global Bioenergies has successfully converted renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons, including iso-octane. Gaseous isobutene is one of the main building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

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APRIL 14, 2010

a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, introduced two bio-based performance materials for the automotive industry. Palapreg ECO is composed of 55% renewable resources, making it the composite resin material with the highest bio-based content available on the market today.

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