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Clean Energy to provide LNG to Hawaii Gas; additional agreements in trucking, transit and refuse markets

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has secured a contract to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Hawaii Gas, the State of Hawaii’s only franchised gas utility. Republic Services, an industry leader in US recycling and non-hazardous solid waste, will be switching its California-based fleet to Redeem Renewable Natural Gas. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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DOE Awards $22.6M Grant to Rentech and ClearFuels Integrated Bio-Refinery Project

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million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE). The grant award will be used to manufacture and install at RETC a 20 ton-per-day ClearFuels biomass gasifier designed to produce synthesis gas from various wood waste and sugar cane bagasse feedstocks. The Rentech, Inc. and ClearFuels Technology Inc.

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USDA and DOE award $47M in RD grants for biofuel, bioenergy and biobased product projects

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Grant recipients are required to contribute a minimum of 20% of matching funds for research and development projects and 50% of matching funds for demonstration projects. The following projects have been selected for awards: Cellana LLC , Kailua Kona, Hawaii, $5,521,173. Each award was made through a competitive selection process.

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DOE to award remaining $19.7M to Rentech and ClearFuels integrated bio-refinery project

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million of a $23-million grant to complete construction of a demonstration scale biomass gasifier at Rentech’s Energy Technology Center (RETC) in Colorado, and to integrate and operate it with Rentech’s Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) for the production of renewable synthetic fuels from biomass. Rentech, Inc. and ClearFuels Technology Inc.

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Rentech’s integrated bio-refinery project mechanically complete; cellulosic FT fuels production expected by end of 2011

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This demonstration-scale project is expected to lead to the final design basis for commercial-scale facilities using the combined technologies, including for potential biomass-to-energy projects that are contemplated in the southeastern United States, Hawaii and Canada.

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DOE to Award Honeywells UOP $25M for Pyrolysis Oil to Renewable Fuels Demo Unit

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The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. refinery in Kapolei, Hawaii, is expected to start up in 2014. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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ClearFuels to Develop Co-Located Commercial-Scale Biorefinery for Renewable Jet or Diesel Production in Tennessee

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The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. million conditional grant from the US Department of Energy. This demonstration project is supported by a $22.6

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