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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

a leading waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, has completed a C$280-million (US$223 million) investment round—its largest to date. The technology converts non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely-used chemicals. Canada-based Enerkem Inc.,

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Waste Management and EB Investments are investing C$15 million (US$14.6 which is currently building a full-scale commercial facility in Edmonton, using Enerkem’s proprietary technology. Total financing raised by Enerkem in 2011, both at the corporate and project subsidiary levels, now amounts to C$103 million. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 21, 2018

Velocys plc has partnered with PQ Corporation (PQ) for the supply of commercial quantities of Velocys’ proprietary microchannel Fischer-Tropsch catalyst to be used in multiple biorefineries incorporating its technology. UK waste-to-jet-fuel project. Velocys earlier announced that £4.9 million (US$6.5

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APRIL 28, 2024

Anshu Dewan: In India, the market is yet to realise its commercial potential and is currently at a nascent stage. How does the compulsory scrapping of commercial diesel vehicles after 15 years get impacted with retrofitting of electric systems? What’s the size of the refitting (hybridisation of Diesel/CNG) market in India for CVs?

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JUNE 21, 2020

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that its hydrogen-based autonomous energy supply system H2One, which Toshiba ESS delivered and installed on the rooftop of Toranomon Hills Business Tower (Minato-ku, Tokyo), has started full-scale operation with the opening of commercial facilities.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Sekisui , a multibillion dollar Japanese diversified chemicals company and LanzaTech report making significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol or other new products. Garbage is an important resource. It is our mission to replicate this technology widely.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Waste Management (WM) is introducing 25 new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueled trucks to collect waste and recycling in 2012 as a result of being awarded a collection district by the City of Ottawa. In addition the company received the Energy Vision’s Corporate Leadership Energy Vision Award for its strategic vision and leadership.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Velocys has engaged the global leading project finance bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), as the lender of record and as its financial advisor. The site will be home to a biorefinery that will use Velocys’ technology to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from the wood wastes of lumber operations and tree plantations.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Agilyx Corporation, a startup commercializing a waste plastic to synthetic crude oil technology, has closed a $22 million Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and joined by new strategic investors, Waste Management, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, has entered into an offtake agreement with Methanex Corporation for the sale of methanol to be produced at Enerkem’s facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Commercial production plant capacity is expected to be 10 million gallons (36 million litres) per year. Enerkem Inc.,

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JULY 6, 2022

The new development is suitable for passenger cars and commercial vehicles as well as construction machines and tractors. With the SCT E-motor, MAHLE thus becomes a full-range provider in the field of electric drives and covers all needs from e-scooters to heavy-duty commercial vehicles as well as off-road and industrial applications.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Velocys plc, a developer of smaller-scale microchannel gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology, has entered a joint venture (JV) with Waste Management, NRG Energy (NRG), and Ventech Engineers International (Ventech) to develop gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants in the United States and other select geographies. Biomethane Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) Natural Gas'

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

The technology center created by Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. The project aims to identify contaminants in waste cooking oil, which often is described in China as “gutter oil,” and processes that may treat and clean it for use as jet fuel. The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. GTI anticipates full-scale commercial plants converting 2,000 tons a day will be operating by 2014.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

High fuel costs and environmental laws that are favorable to clean energy make Europe an attractive market for Balqon Corporation’s heavy-duty electric vehicles and drive systems. —Balwinder Samra, President and CEO of Balqon Corporation.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China ( COMAC ) and Boeing opened the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center, a collaborative effort to support commercial aviation industry growth. The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. billion passengers in 2030.

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MAY 10, 2017

The plant is India’s first integrated bio-refinery, built to showcase Praj’s proprietary process technology to produce ethanol from agricultural waste. Praj has already signed MoUs with Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd to be their technology partners for certain projects in India.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In addition, the five-year framework contract will also cover putting the results of data from CGTL’s various demonstration plants into commercial practice, execution of feasibility and scoping studies and support the delivery of CompactGTL’s EPC (Engineering Procurement & Construction) contracts. Conceptual view of CompactGTL system.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers, announced the successful completion of a battery recycling pilot with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li- Cycle Corporation. —Kunal Phalpher, Chief Commercial Officer, Li-Cycle. New Flyer Industries Canada ULC and New Flyer of America Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

SAF offers the only viable alternative to fossil liquid fuels for powering commercial aircraft with an immediate potential to reduce aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions. We are fully committed to supporting the aviation industry, its customers and corporates with their emission reduction targets.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Chevron Corporation made a Series A investment in Zap Energy Inc. , a Seattle-based start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor with an innovative approach to advancing cost-effective, flexible, and commercially scalable fusion.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

INCJ is a public-private partnership between the Japanese government and 27 major corporations, including Sharp, Sumitomo Electric, Toshiba and General Electric Company, Japan. The alliance will help bring the long-awaited practical realization, commercialization and mass production of GaN power conversion solutions.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Start-up Mote is establishing its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering CO 2 emissions resulting from its process. Mote utilizes wood waste from farms, forestry, and other resources where it would otherwise be open-air burned for disposal, left to decompose, or sent to a landfill.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. million (US$36.6 million (US$1.76 City of Medicine Hat , C$3 million (US$2.9

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

a developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, achieved two years of successful operations at their cellulosic ethanol semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pennsylvania this month. Coskata, Inc.,

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Cobalt Technologies has signed an agreement with Fluor Corporation for engineering consulting services as Cobalt gears up to commercialize its cellulosic biobutanol production technology. We believe Cobalt’s technology has great potential and are looking forward to helping them scale up rapidly.

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JUNE 17, 2022

Avfuel Corporation is making a multimillion-dollar investment in Alder Fuels—a company that is developing technologies for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at scale by converting abundant biomass into sustainable low-carbon, drop-in replacement crude oil that can be used in existing refineries to produce aviation fuel.

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JUNE 21, 2021

As a first step forward the commercialization of domestically-produced SAF around 2030, SAF produced at the demonstration plants has now passed the quality inspection and became available for use in actual flights. Toyo Engineering Corporation/JERA Co., the other by IHI Corporation.

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JULY 29, 2019

million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Release 2 grants to projects that demonstrate commercial feasibility for innovations during the second phase of their research. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is awarding $43.6

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rio Tinto and Japanese trader and business conglomerate Marubeni Corporation have agreed a first sale under a new strategic collaboration agreement to secure a sustainable and reliable supply of Rio Tinto’s Responsible aluminum products to Japanese downstream manufacturers.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Four new corporate partners—Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia—are joining the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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APRIL 30, 2022

Lead: Cnem Corporation; Partners: Talon Metals Services Inc., Palcan Energy Corporation. Cnem Corporation and partners Talon Metals Services Inc., and Palcan Energy Corporation will develop a new recycling process to process EV battery black mass using an environmentally friendly approach. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Brookfield will also invest $50 million in LanzaTech to support further corporate development. LanzaTech’s first two commercial-scale gas fermentation plants have produced more than 30 million gallons of ethanol—the equivalent of offsetting the release of more than 150,000 metric tons of CO 2 into the atmosphere.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Neste and Avfuel Corporation announced a strategic partnership to create an efficient, continuous supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the United States. Neste’s SAF is made from sustainably sourced, renewable waste and residue materials. million tons (515 million gallons) of SAF annually by 2023.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

UBQ is a patented material converted from 100% unsorted household waste, containing food leftovers, mixed plastics, paper, cardboard, packaging materials and diapers. Targeting the plastic industry first, and leveraging the material’s thermoplastic affinity to polymers, they company developed several commercial grades of UBQ material.

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APRIL 25, 2023

Stena Prosperous (left) and Stena Pro Marine (right) The barge bunkering operation was conducted jointly with Kirby Corporation, the largest tanker barge provider in the United States. Both ships were time-chartered to a global trading house at the time of the refueling.

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JUNE 24, 2023

The initial plant, estimated to cost US$25 million, will be dedicated to processing and converting lithium-ion battery waste into resources such as lithium-ion battery precursor cathode active material, lithium hydroxide monohydrate, and lithium carbonate.

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