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Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

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APRIL 18, 2023

Chevron USA kicked off a road trip across the US Gulf Coast to showcase an innovative new gasoline blend with more than 50% renewable content. During the tour, Chevron representatives will talk with members of the public about the benefits of lower carbon fuels such as biofuels and renewable gasoline blend.

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ENGIE greenlights Australian renewable hydrogen project with Yara

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

ENGIE has taken the Final Investment Decision in the development of one of the world’s first industrial-scale renewable hydrogen projects, to be located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Yuri roadmap. As announced in 2021, the Yuri project is being developed with the support of a $47.5-million

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Renewable Hydrogen Australia Grant

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. GLE and $0.9/GLE. —Ou et al. 1c06561.

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bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

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JANUARY 17, 2022

bp and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman signed a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and a Renewables Data Collection Agreement which will support the potential development of a multiple gigawatt, world-class renewable energy and green hydrogen development in Oman by 2030.

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Oman Renewable Hydrogen Energy

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill. Frontier Energy, Inc.,

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Topsoe selected by World Energy GH2 to supply ammonia loop for Canada’s largest renewable hydrogen plant

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Topsoe has signed an agreement with World Energy GH2 , a net-zero solutions provider, to provide Topsoe’s dynamic ammonia loop technology for Canada’s largest—and one of the world’s first-to-market, renewable hydrogen projects—Project Nujio’qonik. Nujio’qonik is The Mi’kmaw name for Bay St. George) Located in the Bay St.

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IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, because sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to store energy in an accessible and efficient way is crucial. Dabek, P.B., Brandão, R., Patro, E.R., Leal Filho, W., van Ruijven, B.,

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Neste, NuStar expand renewable fuel hub in Northern California

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APRIL 14, 2021

While NuStar has handled conventional jet fuel at its Selby Terminal for decades, the companies are now working together to establish the facility as a hub for low-emission renewable fuels and to make it easier for businesses and cities to access renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel. million trees.

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SHV Energy and LanzaTech partner to develop renewable propane solutions

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MARCH 28, 2022

SHV Energy and LanzaTech are partnering to employ LanzaTech’s Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT) technology to bring renewable propane and other sustainable fuels to the market via existing and novel pathways. Additional plants are under construction globally. —Bram Gräber, SHV Energy CEO.

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PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

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JULY 30, 2020

A new study of the impact of high EV adoption on the Western US power grid by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found that 2028 grid resource adequacy—from generation through transmission—is likely to be sufficient for high EV penetration. million for the WECC.

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Grid Charging Power Grid California

Nornickel presents market review of nickel and platinum group metals

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JUNE 4, 2023

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data. Mt to 3.22 Mt (7% year-on-year growth).

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Controlled Thermal Resources appoints Hargrove to manage construction of its first stage Hell’s Kitchen lithium facilities

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Controlled Thermal Resources Limited has appointed Hargrove Engineers & Constructors as engineering contractor on the company’s $1-billion program to recover lithium sustainably from sub-surface geothermal brine in Imperial County, CA. Earlier post.).

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Houston Renewable Carbon Engine

NERC: high probability of insufficient resources to meet electricity demand as early as Summer 2022 in parts of US

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Findings from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) indicate there is a high probability of insufficient resources and energy to serve electricity demand, as early as Summer 2022, in many parts of the Western Interconnection.

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Trade associations: renewable natural gas accounted for 64% of on-road NGV fuel use in 2021

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MAY 4, 2022

The trade associations Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) announced that 64% of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in the US in calendar year 2021 was renewable natural gas (RNG). Of that, 390 million gallons (GGE) were from renewable source (64%).

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Renewable Gas Fuel Carbon

Global Bioenergies successfully moves its C3 process to demo scale; isopropanol and acetone from renewable resources

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JUNE 27, 2018

Global Bioenergies has reached a new milestone in scaling up its C3 process converting renewable resources into isopropanol and acetone. These two biobased compounds target large markets in the cosmetics and solvent segments. Earlier post.) A first pilot run was successfully conducted in December 2017.

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SOFC-maker Bloom Energy announces initial strategy for hydrogen market entry; partnership with SK

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JULY 20, 2020

Solid-oxide-fuel-cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is entering the commercial hydrogen market by introducing hydrogen-powered fuel cells and electrolyzers that produce renewable hydrogen. The Bloom Energy Servers are a proven market leader in clean, reliable, and resilient on-site power.

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Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

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JULY 6, 2023

Rolls-Royce has approved its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks, based on the mtu Series 4000 and 1600 diesel engines, for use with renewable diesel (HVO/Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and the other synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard.

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Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen.

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UC Irvine analysis finds renewable hydrogen sector could reach price parity with conventional fuel by mid- to late 2020s

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JUNE 6, 2020

The California Energy Commission has released a UC Irvine roadmap for the buildout and deployment of renewable hydrogen production plants in California to support policy decisions and inform stakeholders. The roadmap effort developed several scenarios for the growth in renewable hydrogen demand through 2050.

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Hydrogen Renewable Price Fuel

ICCT report finds expected surge in renewable diesel production could have damaging environmental impacts due to feedstock demand

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JANUARY 19, 2022

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a report prepared by the consultancy Cerulogy that explores the potential market and environmental impacts of increased capacity for renewable diesel produced by hydrotreating oils and fats in the US. —from the report, “Animal, vegetable or mineral (oil)?”.

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Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. Producing hydrogen has traditionally been associated with high carbon emissions, but by using renewable electricity—e.g., The UK has awarded £7.5

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CVR Energy selects Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for revamp of Wynnewood refinery to renewable diesel, naphtha production

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JANUARY 28, 2021

CVR Energy will base a revamp of its Wynnewood, Oklahoma, refinery on Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce approximately 100 million gallons of renewable diesel and more than 6 million gallons of renewable naphtha per year. Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing then sells and distributes the products.

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Renewable Diesel Energy Production

DOE to award $590M to renew four existing Bioenergy Research Centers

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MARCH 18, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $590 million to renew its four existing Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs). This funding will help support the Department’s research into the next generation of sustainable, cost-effective bioproducts and bioenergy from domestic biomass resources.

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Global Bioenergies reports first production of ETBE entirely from renewable resources

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Global Bioenergies announced the production of ETBE—Ethyl tert-butyl ether, an oxygenate additive for gasoline—purely from renewable resources. Conventionally, partially renewable ETBE is obtained by combining a molecule of renewable ethanol with a molecule of fossil isobutene using a simple and proven process.

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Gevo and HCS Group to produce renewable low-carbon chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel in Europe

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MARCH 1, 2021

and HCS Group GmbH, a long-time customer of Gevo, have signed a project memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and to build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germany, which would utilize Gevo’s low-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology: Alcohol-to-Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene.

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Renewable Carbon Europe Fuel

Senators introduce bipartisan bill to boost production, use of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel

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APRIL 10, 2022

Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and John Barrasso (R-WY) led their colleagues in introducing the Renewable Diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel Parity Act of 2022. The bill would require the Department of Energy to track foreign imports and domestic production of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel. Background.

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Renewable Diesel Fuel Production

BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

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JULY 1, 2022

Global benchmarks conceal a range of country-level estimates that vary according to market maturity, resource availability, project characteristics, local financing conditions and labor costs. These cost hikes mark a rough patch for renewables, but not an inflection point.

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Cost Of Renewable Wind Egypt

Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The ultimate aim would be to capture wasted CO 2 using renewable hydrogen gas from biohydrogen—as in this research—or electrolysis powered by renewable electricity, and convert it to formic acid. This is the vision of a truly cyclic bioeconomy where CO 2 is constantly produced, captured and returned to the market.

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Renewable Engine CO2 Fuel

U-Haul buys another million gallons of renewable propane to sell at California stores

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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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Store Renewable California San Diego

Oberon Fuels starts commercial production of renewable dimethyl ether (rDME)

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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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Renewable Commercial Fuel Production

Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

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APRIL 6, 2022

Suncor Energy, a Canadian integrated energy company that is one of the top oil sands producers in the country, will strengthen its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels to accelerate progress towards its objective to be a net-zero company by 2050. In 2002, Suncor partnered with Enbridge to build one of the first renewable.

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NuScale, Shell and partners to assess hydrogen production using SMR

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

NuScale’s flexible SMR technology holds the potential—through hydrogen production—to balance and stabilize power grids dominated by renewable energies. Energy markets present reliability concerns at times when energy demand is high and renewable energy production is low.

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Hydrogen Production Idaho Utah

Cal ISO: California grid battery storage increased nearly 20x since 2019 to 5,000MW; projected to hit 52,000 MW by 2045

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JUNE 1, 2023

Today’s fleet of storage resources can capture enough electricity to power up to 5 million California homes. This amount remains unchanged from 2020 despite the jump in renewables due to drought-related declines in hydroelectric generation. By 2045, capacity is projected to increase another 10 times to 52,000 MW. compared to 2020.

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Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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ExxonMobil increases purchases of renewable diesel from Global Clean Energy Holdings to up to 5M barrels per year

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APRIL 25, 2021

ExxonMobil and Global Clean Energy have expanded their five-year agreement to increase ExxonMobil’s purchase of renewable diesel to up to 5 million barrels per year. The renewable diesel leverages Global Clean Energy’s patented camelina crop, which can significantly reduce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier post.).

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Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Enel X and MGL will provide an innovative electrification planning and analysis solution that will help inform the MBTA’s electrification strategy and has the potential to be applied in other markets. Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global power, gas and renewables markets.

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Ryze Renewables partners with Phillips 66 to build two renewable diesel plants in Nevada; 11,000 BPD combined

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Ryze Renewables announced that construction is underway for two renewable diesel production facilities in Nevada. When completed, the two Ryze Renewables facilities are expected to produce a combined 11,000 barrels per day (BPD) of renewable diesel fuel for Western US and Canadian markets.

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Renewable Las Vegas Nevada Diesel

GM and Shell to offer renewable energy solutions to US homeowners, EV owners and suppliers; Texas first

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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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Gevo and Leaf Resources sign joint development agreement for potential use of cellulosic-derived sugars to convert to hydrocarbon molecules

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

and Leaf Resources , an Australia-based company and one of the world’s leading companies in converting plant biomass into industrial sugars, have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA). We have already been supplying renewable jet fuel to Virgin Australia and see the potential demand in Australia and more broadly in Asia.

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Convert Malaysia Australia Asia

EIA: Renewable diesel increasingly used to meet California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard; 10.1% of total diesel supplied in 2Q18

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Renewable diesel net supply to California’s fuel market has increased since the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program went into effect in 2011, reaching 100 million gallons during the second quarter of 2018, or 10.1% Source: US Energy Information Administration, based on California Air Resources Board.

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Diesel Renewable Carbon Standards

Euro Manganese signs MoU with Statkraft for renewable energy supply for Chvaletice project

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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. Statkraft is Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy.

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Renewable Czech Republic Supplies Energy

Renewable Energy Group launches REG Ultra Clean Diesel; blend of renewable diesel and biodiesel

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MAY 2, 2018

Renewable Energy Group launched REG Ultra Clean Diesel, at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach. REG Ultra Clean Diesel, among the lowest emission diesel fuels on the market today, is a patent-pending fuel made of a proprietary blend of renewable diesel and biodiesel. It also has a low cloud point.

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Renewable Diesel Clean Cleaning

BASF and Sulzer Chemtech sign MoU to collaborate to reduce the carbon intensity of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production

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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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Renewable Diesel Carbon Fuel

Sandia team develops gasoline-like fuel blend with high renewable content that simultaneously increases ?-sensitivity, RON, and octane sensitivity

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

High-performance renewable fuels (HPFs) are an alternative to conventional petroleum fuels that could greatly reduce the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines. Dec (2021) “Experimental Evaluation of a Gasoline-like Fuel Blend with High Renewable Content to Simultaneously Increase ?-Sensitivity, Background. 1c01979.

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Gasoline Renewable Fuel 2019

Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

ENGIE greenlights Australian renewable hydrogen project with Yara

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

Topsoe selected by World Energy GH2 to supply ammonia loop for Canada’s largest renewable hydrogen plant

IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

Neste, NuStar expand renewable fuel hub in Northern California

SHV Energy and LanzaTech partner to develop renewable propane solutions

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

Nornickel presents market review of nickel and platinum group metals

Controlled Thermal Resources appoints Hargrove to manage construction of its first stage Hell’s Kitchen lithium facilities

NERC: high probability of insufficient resources to meet electricity demand as early as Summer 2022 in parts of US

Trade associations: renewable natural gas accounted for 64% of on-road NGV fuel use in 2021

Global Bioenergies successfully moves its C3 process to demo scale; isopropanol and acetone from renewable resources

SOFC-maker Bloom Energy announces initial strategy for hydrogen market entry; partnership with SK

Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

UC Irvine analysis finds renewable hydrogen sector could reach price parity with conventional fuel by mid- to late 2020s

ICCT report finds expected surge in renewable diesel production could have damaging environmental impacts due to feedstock demand

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

CVR Energy selects Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for revamp of Wynnewood refinery to renewable diesel, naphtha production

DOE to award $590M to renew four existing Bioenergy Research Centers

Global Bioenergies reports first production of ETBE entirely from renewable resources

Gevo and HCS Group to produce renewable low-carbon chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel in Europe

Senators introduce bipartisan bill to boost production, use of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel

BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

U-Haul buys another million gallons of renewable propane to sell at California stores

Oberon Fuels starts commercial production of renewable dimethyl ether (rDME)

Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

NuScale, Shell and partners to assess hydrogen production using SMR

Cal ISO: California grid battery storage increased nearly 20x since 2019 to 5,000MW; projected to hit 52,000 MW by 2045

Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

ExxonMobil increases purchases of renewable diesel from Global Clean Energy Holdings to up to 5M barrels per year

Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet

Ryze Renewables partners with Phillips 66 to build two renewable diesel plants in Nevada; 11,000 BPD combined

GM and Shell to offer renewable energy solutions to US homeowners, EV owners and suppliers; Texas first

Gevo and Leaf Resources sign joint development agreement for potential use of cellulosic-derived sugars to convert to hydrocarbon molecules

EIA: Renewable diesel increasingly used to meet California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard; 10.1% of total diesel supplied in 2Q18

Euro Manganese signs MoU with Statkraft for renewable energy supply for Chvaletice project

Renewable Energy Group launches REG Ultra Clean Diesel; blend of renewable diesel and biodiesel

BASF and Sulzer Chemtech sign MoU to collaborate to reduce the carbon intensity of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production

Sandia team develops gasoline-like fuel blend with high renewable content that simultaneously increases ?-sensitivity, RON, and octane sensitivity

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