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JULY 17, 2022

E-fuels company HIF (Highly Innovative Fuels) Global has begun the development of Australia’s first large-scale, carbon-neutral eFuels production facility in Tasmania. Our global plan is to produce over 8 billion liters a year of carbon-neutral eFuels—enough to decarbonize 5 million vehicles. Earlier post.).

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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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JUNE 11, 2021

Oberon Fuels, producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel, has begun production of the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States, and the only current commercial production of this in the world. Once delivered, rDME can be converted to renewable hydrogen at the point of use.

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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. No cost increase is passed on to U-Haul customers as a result of the renewable propane initiative. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 24, 2021

General Motors and Shell, through its wholly owned subsidiary MP2 Energy, LLC, are collaborating to provide comprehensive energy solutions programs to GM’s customers and supply chain partners, including fixed-rate home energy plans backed by 100% renewable energy resources. of EV charging. of EV charging.

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JULY 1, 2022

The cost of new-build onshore wind has risen 7% year on year, and fixed-axis solar has jumped 14%, according to the latest analysis by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). The global benchmark levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, has retreated to where it was in 2019. The latter cost at $74 and $81 per MWh, respectively.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

In a commentary in the journal Joule , Rob McGinnis, founder and and CEO of Prometheus , a company that is developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuels, discusses the technology advances that could lead to the potential price-competitiveness of renewable gasoline and jet with fossil fuels.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

BASF and Sulzer Chemtech (GTC Technology) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the goal of advancing technologies for renewable fuels and chemically recycled plastics that will further expand the partners’ portfolio of sustainable solutions.

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MAY 23, 2023

Additionally, NGHC also announced that the non-recourse financing structured for the project has been certified by S&P Global (as the second party opinion provider) as adhering to green loan principles and is one of the largest project financings put in place under the green loan framework.

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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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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Triggered by the successful completion of a first series of tests of its renewable isobutene for a high-value application, Clariant has now ordered a larger batch of renewable isobutene from Global Bioenergies for a second phase of evaluation. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Canada-based Euro Manganese (EMN) signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Norwegian state-owned company Statkraft for the long-term supply of carbon-free renewable energy for Euro Manganese’s flagship Chvaletice Manganese Project (CMP) in the Czech Republic. Background.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. Founded in 2008, Global Bioenergies develops processes to convert renewable resources into fuels and materials. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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MARCH 5, 2021

billion (assuming no redemptions) for the combined company, which will be renamed “TMC the metals company Inc.” and operate as The Metals Company upon closing. We looked at over 100 companies, many of them in the EV and renewable energy space. DeepGreen Metals Inc., Seafloor polymetallic nodule. Source: DeepGreen.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cemvita defines Gold Hydrogen as the biological production of hydrogen in the subsurface through the consumption of trapped or abandoned resources. The subsequent field trial was completed in the Permian basin with a partnering company, where the team successfully measured hydrogen concentrations three orders of magnitude above baseline.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Koura , a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of fluoroproducts and technologies and part of the Orbia community of companies, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silatronix , a specialist in organosilicon (OS) electrolytes ( earlier post ). —Gregg Smith, President of Koura.

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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. Found naturally deep in the Earth, “gold hydrogen” is a resource that is produced biologically and in the subsurface.

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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 12, 2013

Global Bioenergies, an industrial biology company developing light olefin bioproduction processes ( earlier post ), closed its capital increase launched 27 June 2013, raising a final gross value of €23 million (US$30 million). The capital increase originally resulted in a total order for 1.15 The initiation of new programs.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Compatibility of the renewable isobutene produced by Global Bioenergies with commercial bottled butane offers new potential to contribute towards reaching France’s CO 2 emissions reduction target. There is currently no renewable source of butane. Butane, propane and isobutene are also known as LPG (liquefied petroleum gases).

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JANUARY 22, 2021

The 2021 Nissan Rogue is the company’s first global model built using a “closed-loop” recycling system for aluminum parts. It also promotes the use of materials that don’t rely on newly mined resources, as well as the reduction of waste from factories.

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JULY 28, 2020

The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. Chairman of the Board of Management Oliver Zipse announced initial details of this strategic direction in Munich on Monday and presented the targets the company has set itself for the phase up to 2030. degree goal.

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MAY 21, 2015

Global Bioenergies, a developer of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, and Cristal Union, the 4 th largest European beet producer, have formed IBN-One, a joint venture to build and operate the first plant in France converting renewable resources into isobutene.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Oberon Fuels, a producer of ultra-low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel, and SHV Energy, the world’s largest distributor of propane fuel, are partnering to accelerate the use of renewable DME to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation fuel. DME is approved as a renewable fuel under the US.

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JULY 4, 2016

France-based Global Bioenergies announced that its German subsidiary, Global Bioenergies GmbH, secured a €400,000 (US$446,000) grant from the BMBF (the German federal ministry for research and education) to finance a 14-month-project aimed at producing renewable gasoline additives. million tons per year). Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

the global warming potential (GWP) as direct use of fossil-derived jet fuels. If only incremental increases in renewable energy resources are introduced across the grid, electrolytic hydrogen will not become an environmentally sustainable solution. Courtesy Google Maps and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

ABB and Canada-based Hydrogen Optimized have signed an agreement to expand the companies’ existing strategic relationship. KEY), the parent company of HOI, as they seek to accelerate the fast-emerging green hydrogen production segment with unique large-scale architecture. This includes an investment by ABB into Key DH Technologies Inc.

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MAY 16, 2020

Air Products, a leader in industrial gases and megaproject development, and Haldor Topsoe, a leader in high-performance catalysts and proprietary technology for the chemical and refining industries, have signed a global Alliance Agreement.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

what is renewable energy integration ? Renewable energy integration refers to the process of efficiently incorporating renewable energy sources into existing energy systems. Energy Storage: Renewable energy sources are often intermittent, meaning they don’t produce energy consistently.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Thermal Energy Partners (TEP), a developer of geothermal energy projects, and Schlumberger New Energy, a new Schlumberger business, entered into an agreement to create GeoFrame Energy, a geothermal project development company. The new company’s first project is the 10-MW Nevis Geothermal Power Project on the Caribbean island of Nevis.

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MARCH 30, 2018

The British Columbia Government Ministries of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and Jobs, Trade and Technology has awarded ITM Power a grant to undertake a Power-to-Gas (P2G) feasibility study. This positions BC as a strong candidate for production of renewable hydrogen generated via electrolysis. and G&S Budd Consulting Ltd.

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JULY 15, 2022

The challenge of meeting Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 “will be short-circuited and remain out of reach” unless significant new copper supply comes online in a timely way, according to a new study by S&P Global that examines the growing mismatch between available copper supply and future demand resulting from the energy transition.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Global Bioenergies has achieved a yield exceeding 87% of the final target during the complete production phase, at laboratory scale, of its bio-isobutene process. In order to reach this milestone, Global Bioenergies has built new bacterial strains, with an entirely redesigned carbon metabolism.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

XALT Energy, a Freudenberg Sealing Technologies company, is a Midland, Mich.-based Working with the ReCell Center, XALT is providing material resources and proof-of-concept testing to validate a simple separation process that allows for direct recycling of manufacturing scrap electrode materials into new battery electrodes.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

The global geothermal industry surpassed 12,000 MW of geothermal power operational, with about 600 MW of new geothermal power coming online globally, according to a year-end update by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW.

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MAY 16, 2018

Global Bioenergies has been selected in more Horizon 2020 projects funded by the European Union, and will receive for this purpose about €2 million in grants over 4 years. Earlier this week, Global Bioenergies announced it is leading the €19.7-million For that, GBE is receiving funding amounting to €5.7 million (US$7 million).

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Global Bioenergies has succeeded in the production of bio-sourced propylene by direct fermentation. After isobutene in 2010 and butadiene earlier this year, Global Bioenergies has created a proprietary prototype strain able to convert glucose into propylene at laboratory scale.

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