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million) grant under the EU Horizon 2020 Research Programme to increase the scale of its CO 2 -to-methanol technology, marketed under the trademark Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL). CO 2 is available in abundance in high concentration in many industrial processes and thermal power plants (here CRI focusing on geothermal power and waste to energy).

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JUNE 21, 2018

Catalyst produced by PQ has already been used to successfully produce renewable transportation fuel and other products at ENVIA, the first commercial smaller scale gas-to-liquids plant which incorporates Velocys technology. UK waste-to-jet-fuel project. Velocys earlier announced that £4.9 million (US$6.5

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MARCH 30, 2017

SoCalGas) and waste management company CR&R Environmental announced that renewable natural gas from CR&R’s anaerobic digestion facility in Perris, California is now being used to fuel CR&R’s waste-hauling trucks. mile pipeline that will bring the carbon-neutral renewable natural gas into the SoCalGas distribution system.

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MAY 13, 2019

has reached agreement with trucking firms to lease or purchase more than 250 new heavy-duty trucks, fueled by its Redeem RNG (renewable natural gas). Kenan Advantage Group will be deploying its natural gas tractors in the company’s Merchant Gas Group that transports industrial gases. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have transformed CO 2 emissions into ethanol as a part of an ongoing research and development partnership. In Fall 2021, Twelve and LanzaTech also announced plans to develop polypropylene from CO 2 with a grant from Impact Squared.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Aemetis, an advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company formerly known as AE Biofuels, approval to produce ethanol using grain sorghum and biogas at its converted corn ethanol plant to generate D5 Advanced Biofuels Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs).

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APRIL 28, 2022

Oberon Fuels announced commercial availability of a blend of propane and Oberon’s renewable DME (dimethyl ether). the third-largest propane supplier in the US, is the first company to make this more sustainable blended product available to its customers across Southern California. Oberon partner Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.,

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AUGUST 9, 2012

INEOS New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), a joint venture between Ineos Bio and New Planet Energy ( earlier post ), has been granted Parts 79 and 80 registration from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the production and sale of advanced bioethanol from non-food waste materials.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The first phase of the project, which has been completed, delivers renewable compressed natural gas (CNG) through six new dispensers. One of the largest sweeping companies in the nation, Nationwide Environmental Services based in Norwalk, Calif. The company services over 2.5 Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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million grant from the California Energy Commission last summer. The company recently added nine full-time, family-wage jobs to the facility, which is located in Imperial Valley, a county with the highest unemployment rate in the state. Oberon Fuels is in the middle of upgrading its plant in Brawley, Calif. Oberon’s process.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $100,000 Rural Business Enterprise grant to the not-for-profit Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), based in East Hartford, Conn. The grant will be used to help determine the feasibility of alternative fuel plants in north-central Connecticut.

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That’s granting the workers who pocketed great salaries and benefits, while filling our air and water with toxic waste, a free pass from taking any responsibility for their actions. But they fiercely fought any and all attempts to transition to clean renewable. That ain’t justice. None of them are innocent bystanders.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The BioEnergy Center will convert yard, vegetative and household wastes into cellulosic ethanol and renewable power for the local community. The INEOS Bio process can produce ethanol and renewable energy from numerous feedstocks, including construction waste, municipal solid waste and forestry and agricultural waste.

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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) directly allocated to the Company. million (US$5.5 million (US$5.5 million (US$2.5

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

SucreSource, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueFire Renewables, Inc. OTC BB: BFRE.OB), has signed agreements with GS Caltex—a joint venture between GS Holdings and Chevron, and a leading Korea-based petroleum company—to build a cellulose to sugar plant in Korea. BlueFire Renewables, Inc. BlueFire Renewables, Inc.

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As part of the DOE grant, LS9 and HCL CleanTech are combining their proprietary technologies to produce advanced drop-in biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals from wood waste and other agriculture waste. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 20, 2011

million matching grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to accelerate the commercial implementation of its patent-pending, enzyme based, cellulosic ethanol production technology. (AE Keyes), has been awarded a $1.88

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

British Airways will power future flights with sustainable aviation fuel produced from sustainably-sourced ethanol, as part of a new partnership with sustainable jet fuel company LanzaJet. British Airways’ parent company, International Airlines Group, will be investing US$400 million in sustainable aviation fuel over the next 20 years.

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has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)—household garbage—into jet and diesel fuels. For that process, Fulcrum uses a two-stage thermochemical process involving gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) followed by the catalytic conversion of the syngas to ethanol. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 16, 2021

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) and software company Bioledger released a case study on the potential of a blockchain database to support traceability of biofuel and its feedstocks and overcome the vulnerabilities identified in securing the supply of sustainable renewables. Bioledger Ltd.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

California Ethanol + Power (CE+P) is partnering with the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a Bioenergy Research Center of the US Department of Energy (DOE), to develop scalable next-generation renewable energy products using biomass from CE+P’s planned sugarcane ethanol facility in Imperial County, California.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Hyzon Motors , a global supplier of zero-emissions hydrogen and fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, announced that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has certified Hyzon’s Class 8, 7, and 6 Repowers as exempt from emission requirements, enabling the company to sell fuel cell electric trucks in California.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The INEOS Bio waste-to-ethanol process, originally developed by BRI. million) feasibility study, which includes detailed engineering design work for a plant at the company’s Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley, is being supported by a £2.2-million Heat is recovered to generate renewable power. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 23, 2014

A consortium led by the Dearman Engine Company has been awarded £1.86 The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

UK-based ITM Power has been awarded a grant by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to undertake a £100k (US$160k), 12-month engineering feasibility study of producing synthetic methane using carbon dioxide from industrial processes and hydrogen produced by electrolysis.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has selected seven companies as proposed recipients for $26,896,373 in Round 2 of awards from a solicitation released under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) to. Maximum funding available for this grant solicitation, which was issued in January, was $37.69

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $500,000 grant to researchers at NC State University aimed at finding an energy efficient and environmentally friendly method for breaking down lignin into feedstock for the petrochemical industry. Approximately 1.3 It will be a win-win-win situation if we are successful.

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The Indonesian-born Chinese American businessman is better known for founding SHI International Corp, a large private IT company that made him a billionaire. KoGuan is the third largest individual shareholder in the company, but you could argue that he is the biggest Tesla investor as he invested more than anyone in the company: $3.5

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A joint venture between Waste Management, Inc., North America’s largest waste services company, and Linde North America, part of The Linde Group, has begun producing clean, renewable vehicle fuel at its facility located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 26, 2020

Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost. Due to environmental concerns and national as well as international regulations associated with fossil based HFOs, there is a considerable need for cleaner, renewable and economic alternatives for the maritime industry.

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million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE). The gasifier will be integrated with Rentech’s Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) for the production of renewable synthetic fuels from biomass. The Rentech, Inc. and ClearFuels Technology Inc. Earlier post.)

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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. Global Bioenergies’ bio-process for the production of isobutene relies on the use of renewable resources. For that, GBE is receiving funding amounting to €5.7

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

a developer of advanced catalyst materials, high-performance electrode systems, and related process chemistries for portable power and clean-tech applications, has been awarded a research grant from the California Energy Commission to develop a process using nanocatalysts to convert algae biomass into biofuels via gasification.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

To enhance the strategic investment and the strength of the partnership, under the terms of the transaction, Bosch is granted the right to appoint a Non-Executive Director to the board of Ceres Power. Solid oxide electrolysis (SOEC) is essentially the process of reversing fuel cells to produce hydrogen and e-fuels from renewable energy.

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MAY 20, 2009

Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels (EGAB) has successfully completed the necessary environmental regulatory process and has been granted a permit to commence construction of a commercial facility to produce biofuels and green chemicals from sorted municipal solid waste in Edmonton, Alberta. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 20, 2009

The Algal Fuel Consortium (AFC) recently won an A$2.724-million (US$2.259 million) research grant under the Department of Resources Energy and Tourism’s Second Generation Biofuels program in Australia. The grant will support the development of microalgal mass cultivation systems to generate biomass from captured CO 2 emissions.

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million), of which 30% is covered by an investment subsidy granted by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy for biorefineries producing transport biofuels. The Finnish investor, NEB, is an associated company of SOK Corporation and energy company St1 whose purpose is to build biofuel production units.

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