Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a multipart proposal for required volumes of biofuel under the Renewable FUel Standard (RFS) for the next one to three years and on a series of modifications to the program. Renewable fuel. Proposed Volume Targets (billion RINs). Cellulosic biofuel. Biomass-based diesel*.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

US production capacity for renewable diesel could more than double from current levels by the end of 2025, based on several announcements for projects that are either under construction or could start development soon, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). billion gallons per year (gal/y), at the end of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2022

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a report prepared by the consultancy Cerulogy that explores the potential market and environmental impacts of increased capacity for renewable diesel produced by hydrotreating oils and fats in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2022

Canada will publish the final Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) in the Canada Gazette Part II on 6 July 2022. The Clean Fuel Standard will require liquid fossil fuel primary suppliers (i.e., The Clean Fuel Standard establishes a credit market. carbon capture and storage, on-site renewable electricity, co-processing).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

U-Haul—the largest US retailer of propane—has purchased one million gallons of renewable propane to sell at its company-owned and -operated stores across California for the second year in row. U-Haul plans for the sustainable product offering to be ongoing due to California’s clean-fuel rebates. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Phillips 66 and Renewable Energy Group, Inc. announced that planning is underway for the construction of a large-scale renewable diesel plant on the US West Coast. The plant would utilize REG’s proprietary Bio-Synfining technology for the production of renewable diesel fuel. from the intermediate renewable hydrocarbons.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

ExxonMobil’s majority-owned affiliate Imperial Oil will invest about $720 million (US$560 million) to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in the country. Imperial also intends to use renewable diesel in operations as part of the company’s emission reduction plans. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), announced the closing of a strategic investment from Samsung Ventures, expanding Raven SR’s reach into the global market, especially in Asia-Pacific region. Samsung Ventures’ investment will expand Raven SR’s global reach to South Korea, a driving force in the hydrogen economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

This is the second revamp of the hydrotreater, following a revamp in 2010 that upgraded the unit to co-process 30% renewable feedstock using Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology. The unit was one of the first in the world capable of processing renewable feedstock. Preem uses tallow and raw tall diesel as main feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from vegetable oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit will be built in Saskatchewan, Canada, and is scheduled to go into operation early in 2024. Canada-based Covenant Energy Ltd.

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Green Energy Consumers

AUGUST 29, 2023

In previous blogs, we expressed strong support for a Clean Heat Standard (CHS) as a policy to decarbonize the building sector. We have also expressed vehement opposition to the notion put forth by gas utilities of allowing renewable natural gas and hydrogen to be considered clean heat.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Fulcrum BioEnergy, a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). This program is part of the?Wells

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

reported that ramp-up of unit operations was completed during the second quarter, making its Montana Renewables subsidiary the largest producer of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in North America (approximately 30 million gallons per year). Montana Renewables is a renewable fuel business located in Great Falls, Montana.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Gold Hydrogen Program , a coalition of organizations seeking to support the scale of this clean energy resource, announced its launch and the debut of a pilot microbial Gold Hydrogen Process. a leader in clean energy solutions). Gold hydrogen has been cost-prohibitive to extract and not commercially viable up to now.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

billion clean energy complex to be built in Louisiana that will make the state a leader in the US clean energy transition. The Port Arthur facility has captured approximately one million tons of CO 2 annually since 2013, with the CO 2 transported via pipeline and utilized for enhanced oil recovery operations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2020

Global oil demand is expected to decline in 2020 as the impact of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the world, constricting travel and broader economic activity, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest oil market forecast. The IEA now sees global oil demand at 99.9

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Honeywell recently introduced a single-stage UOP Ecofining technology offering for the production of renewable diesel fuel. The new process uses a combination of catalysts in a single unit to clean and remove oxygenates and other contaminants from the feedstock, and then isomerize the feed to improve its cold-flow properties.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

The new fuel, called Blue Gasoline, similarly contains up to 33% renewables, ensuring a well-to-wheel reduction in carbon emissions of at least 20% per kilometer driven. On the road to climate-friendly mobility, we must ensure we don’t leave any technical opportunities untapped, starting with electromobility and ending with renewable fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Many new vehicles that leave the Audi plants in Germany are delivered with R33 fuel—a blend comprising one-third renewable components. R33 Blue Gasoline and R33 Blue Diesel consist of one-third renewable components, based exclusively on residual and waste materials. HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil)—and 7% biodiesel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two studies—led by a team from Seattle City Light, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories—are exploring the potential of shifting from fossil fuel to clean hydrogen as fuel to power medium-and heavy-duty vehicles. million DOE award, $150,000 City Light = $1.5 million project total).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 1, 2021

By Sameer Kwatra, Co-authored with Nitish Arora India, the world’s fourth-largest renewables market and fifth-largest automobile producer, is also the world’s third-largest oil importer. Originally published on NRDC Expert Blog.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2019

France’s Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority in the country, ruled in favor of excluding palm oil from the list of biofuels that enjoy tax incentives. Oil company Total has estimated it is worth between €70 million and €80 million per year. The EU is the second largest importer of crude palm oil in the world.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

Preem has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel hydrotreating technology to produce clean renewable diesel and jet fuel at its Gothenburg refinery in Sweden. This volume of renewable fuel can reduce emissions from cars and planes by 2.5 million tons CO 2 every year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

Industria e Comercio, unveiled two new 100% renewable base oil—the main component of motor oils—products: a renewable polyalphaolefin (PAO) Group IV and a renewable version of its NovaSpec Group III+ base oil. The new base oil products add to Novvi’s growing portfolio of renewable oils.

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Baua Electric

MAY 27, 2024

New Delhi: The Indian army is going to demonstrate trials of hydrogen fuel cell bus technology along with Indian Oil Corporation Limited ( IOCL ) for displaying a firm resolve towards finding green and sustainable transport solutions. It indicates the commencement of mutually beneficial partnership between Indian Army and IOCL.

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JULY 11, 2022

And It’s Not The One Which Rewards Dirty Energy Mercenaries With New Clean Energy Jobs. Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. But they fiercely fought any and all attempts to transition to clean renewable.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Gold Hydrogen is a novel source of carbon neutral hydrogen produced from depleted oil reservoirs that are ready for plug and abandonment, extending the life of wells that would otherwise be a significant burden. Cemvita Factory’s mission is to reimagine heavy industries such as oil & gas and mining for the net-zero economy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil. —Dr Birol.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

The New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) will, for the first time, use renewable diesel, a low-emissions, 99% petroleum-free fuel, to power more than 1,000 City government vehicles, including in large vehicles such as sanitation trucks. from the intermediate renewable hydrocarbons. The final step ?in

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. to test the concept for the first time.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2022

Elon Musk has given credit to China for its hard work in renewable energy and electric vehicles. Few seem to realize that China is leading the world in renewable energy generation and electric vehicles. Few seem to realize that China is leading the world in renewable energy generation and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

Neste announced the rebranding of its renewable diesel fuel during a customer seminar and appreciation event in San Diego, California. Neste is replacing its “Neste Renewable Diesel” and earlier brand name “NEXBTL” with “Neste MY Renewable Diesel” brand name.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. thousand in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Enterprise Holdings, owner and operator of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands, is piloting a program with Mansfield Oil Company to use renewable synthetic diesel fuel in its airport shuttle buses at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans and Houston Hobby Airport in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2022

Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

Simplified palm oil biofuel lifecycle system diagram. Consequently, neither palm oil-based biofuel qualifies as meeting the minimum 20% greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction performance threshold required for renewable fuel under the RFS program. Palm oil lifecycle GHG emissions summary. The Clean Air Act (CAA), as.

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