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Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

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Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies’ Boards of Directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually.

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Oxford spin-out OXCCU raises US$22.8M to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel

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OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round.

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Researchers develop highly efficient organometal halide perovskite photoelectrodes for water splitting

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Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting based on solar energy is one promising approach for the production of green hydrogen. However, its widespread application is limited by a lack of efficient photoanodes for catalyzing the rate-limiting oxygen evolution reaction (OER), an important reaction in PEC water splitting.

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Maersk and Carbon Sink partner to accelerate green methanol production; Maersk’s 8th green methanol deal

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Moller - Maersk (Maersk) has entered a green methanol partnership with US-based project developer Carbon Sink LLC. This is Maersk’s 8 th such agreement in the efforts to accelerate global production of green methanol. Securing green fuels at scale in this decade is critical in our fleet decarbonisation efforts.

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Nacero to invest $6B in low- and zero-carbon fuels plant in PA; Nacero Blue and Nacero Green

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Texas-based fuel company Nacero ( earlier post ) will build its second low- and zero-carbon fuels plant in Newport Township, Pennsylvania. The new manufacturing facility will produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock made from natural gas and renewable natural gas.

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Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. The area has excellent conditions for industrial activities: a deep-water harbor and an excellent electricity transmission network. tonnes of CO₂.

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Maersk secures green e-methanol for the world’s first container vessel operating on carbon-neutral fuel; new plant in Denmark

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Maersk has identified its partners to produce green fuel for its first vessel to operate on carbon-neutral methanol ( earlier post ): REintegrate , a subsidiary of the Danish renewable energy company European Energy. The methanol facility will use renewable energy and biogenic CO 2 to produce the e-methanol.

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