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Rolls-Royce and SOWITEC cooperate on power-to-X projects

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gigawatts of solar and wind projects installed in South America, Europe and Asia, the Baden-Württemberg-based company has extensive experience in developing financeable turnkey renewable energy projects, from concept to implementation, including investor sourcing. With more than 4.2 With more than 4.2

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Ballard and HDF Energy sign development agreement for multi-megawatt fuel cell systems

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The first phase involves the design, build and supply of two next-generation MW-scale containerized stationary PEM fuel cell systems totaling 3-megawatts, based on our new high-durability LCS fuel cell stack [ earlier post ]. Under the Development Agreement, we are planning for two phases of work.

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BlueFire Renewables Signs 15-Year Feedstock Supply Contract for Cellulosic Ethanol Facility

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Coupled with our recently-announced off-take agreement with Tenaska BioFuels, LLC, the key input and output contracts required for financing are now resolved. Smith, one of America’s oldest and largest stevedoring and maritime related firms with operations on all three US coasts and foreign operations in Central and South America.

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TerraStar Energy to license Emerging Fuels Technology’s Fischer-Tropsch and Maxx Jet/Maxx Diesel upgrading technology

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A major benefit of FLEX plants is their smaller size, requiring lower daily feedstock than the competition; smaller plants are thus less susceptible to supply-chain interruptions. Shorter distances between the feedstock supply and the plant also reduce transportation costs.

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EIA: New refineries will increase global refining capacity in 2022 and 2023; China leads

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High-capacity refineries require access to reliable sources of crude oil inputs to maintain higher utilization and to a sufficiently large pool of potential customers to supply. The refinery’s return is likely to decrease petroleum product prices and increase supply, particularly in south and southeast Asian markets.

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Badlands NGL to develop $4B plant in North Dakota to convert ethane from Bakken NGLs into polyethylene

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The value-added manufacturing plant will tap into North Dakota’s abundant supplies of natural gas liquids (NGL) to source ethane. Growth in the United States demand and competitive cost exports will drive significant production capacity (supply) additions of commodity chemicals and polymers. The facility will be able to produce 1.5

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Roskill: record cobalt deals in Q1 2018 show raw material procurement for Li-ion batteries revving up

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There is now a significant wave of interest in battery raw material supply security, mainly from Asia, to underpin the growth of Li-ion battery production over the next decade. The year 2017 saw deals between Great Wall and Pilbara Minerals, and Ganfeng Lithium’s US$172-million financing of Lithium Americas.

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