renewable feedstock News
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Neste Jacobs revamps its strategy, organization, and brand
Neste JacobsPress Release1 March 2010 at 9.00 EETNeste Jacobs revamps its strategy, organization, and brandNeste Jacobs has announced its new strategy today and its goal of being the leading provider of technology, engineering, and project services in selected market areas. Neste Jacobs' extensive experience in the oil, gas, and petrochemicals industries, and expertise in refining renewable ...
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U.S. Senators Join Forces in Bipartisan Bill Supporting Biofuel Producers
On May 21, 2020, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced a bill directing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary to establish a renewable feedstock reimbursement program. Aiming to support biofuel producers that have been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, this bill can be cited as the Renewable Fuel Feedstock Reimbursement Act of 2020. ...
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Hawaii Governor Signs Renewable Fuels Production Tax Credit
On July 6, 2016, Hawaii Governor David Ige signed SB 2652 Related to Taxation -- Locally Produced Renewable Energy. This bill establishes a five-year renewable fuels production tax credit. The tax credit will take effect in2017 and will provide 20 cents per gallon of ethanol (or 76,000 British thermal units (Btu) of renewable fuel) with a cap of $3 million. The tax credit is open to companies ...
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Senator Stabenow Introduces Legislation To Provide Tax Credits For Renewable Chemical Production
On November 10, 2015, Senator Stabenow (D-MI), along with Senators Coons (D-DE) and Franken (D-MN), introduced S. 2271, the Renewable Chemicals Act of 2015 to the Senate. If passed, the bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create short-term tax credits for the production of renewable chemicals and for investments in renewable chemical production facilities. Producing eligible ...
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ZeaChem Welcomes Governor Kitzhaber to Boardman, Ore., Biorefinery
ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today welcomed Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber on a tour of its 250,000 gallon-per-year biorefinery in Boardman, Ore., and announced it has begun construction on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-funded project for the production of ...
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ZeaChem Welcomes Senator Ron Wyden to Boardman, Ore., Biorefinery
ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today welcomed U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to its 250,000 gallon-per-year biorefinery in Boardman, Ore., to see the facility’s progress first-hand and discuss opportunities for the biorefining industry in Oregon. In January 2012, ...
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Biorefinery Development à la Bio4Energy Focus of Umeå Renewable Energy Conference
The Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting—which is in fact an annual conference, held in northern Sweden and traditionally attended mostly by researchers and industry representatives from Europe and the Americas—this year will give an overview of the latest research on biorefinery processes based on woody feedstock or organic waste. This UREM 2015 approach à la Bio4Energy was ...
By Bio4Energy
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Recipients Of $8.8 Million In Advanced Biofuel Payment Program Funding Announced
On May 27, 2016, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an investment of $8.8 million to increase production of advanced biofuels in 39 states. The USDA Advanced Biofuel Payment Program is providing the funding with payments being allocated based on the amount of advanced biofuels produced from non-corn kernel starch renewable biomass. Eligible feedstocks include crop residue, food waste, yard ...
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UREM 2015 Renewable Energy Conference Kicked off March 25 in Sweden
The Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting at Umeå, Sweden, kicked off its first conference day 25 March. Some highlights of the morning session were a talk by Thomas B. Johansson of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University on the role of renewable energy for a sustainable future. Johansson led the Swedish government's official investigation, ...
By Bio4Energy
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First cellulose ethanol demonstration in European vehicles
Untitled Document Bonn, Germany Shell Global Solutions International B.V. and Iogen Corporation, together with Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler, announced today that courtesy vehicles at the International Conference for Renewable Energies (ICRE) will be running on cellulose ethanol blended gasoline. Delegates to the ICRE will have the opportunity to ...
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New Joint Venture: Advanced thermal conversion technology for renewable DME
SHV Energy, a leading global distributor of LPG, and KEW Technology, a pioneering UK sustainable energy solutions company, will form a joint venture called Circular Fuels Ltd. It will develop renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) production plants. This strategic collaboration will demonstrate the viability of converting renewable and recycled carbon feedstock into renewable liquid gas. The ...
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Progress in the Commercialization of Biojet / Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Technologies, potential and challenges
IEA Bioenergy has just published a report entitled, “Progress in Commercialization of Biojet /Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF): Technologies, potential and challenges”. The report was prepared by members of IEA Bioenergy Task 39 (focusing on Conventional and advanced transport biofuels from biomass and other renewable feedstocks). The report provides an extensive analysis of the ...
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Amyris and Michelin Announce Collaboration to Develop and Commercialize Renewable Isoprene
Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRS), a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, and Michelin (EPA: ML), a leading innovator in the tire industry, announced today that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement to collaborate in the development and commercialization of Amyris No Compromise® renewable isoprene, the chemical building block in rubber ...
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Neste Oil to build a Renewable Diesel plant in Singapore
Neste Oil plans to invest approximately €550 million in building a plant in Singapore to produce NExBTL Renewable Diesel. The plant will have a design capacity of 800,000 t/a, making it the largest facility producing diesel fuel from renewable feedstocks anywhere. The investment forms part of Neste Oil’s strategic goal of becoming the world’s leading renewable diesel producer. The use of biofuels ...
By Neste
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Message from the EUBCE Conference General Chairman Prof. André Faaij
The deployment of biomass for production of power, heat, transportation fuels, renewable feedstock and materials has become one of the most complex, promising, politicized and debated options we have at our disposal to combat climate change and to create a sustainable energy system. State-of-the-art analysis strongly confirms the necessity of large scale biomass deployment to meet the maximum ...
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Neste and PetroCard establish partnership to expand access to renewable diesel in the Pacific Northwest region of the US
As part of its commitment to help businesses and cities reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector effectively, Neste today announced a new partnership with PetroCard, a premier commercial fleet fuel management solutions provider, to grow the accessibility of Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. This partnership expands ...
By Neste
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Step forward for proposed world-leading ethanol refinery in Canada
Iogen Corporation's application for funding for Canada's first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol production facility has progressed to the due diligence phase, Canada's Environment Minister John Baird has announced. 'This is a good day for Canadians and our environment,' said Minister Baird. 'Thanks to our Government's allocation of $500 million for next generation biofuels, Canada is one ...
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Honeywell and AliphaJet Commit to Commercialize Renewable Drop-in Jet Biofuels at a Dinner Hosted by Former President Jimmy Carter
At a dinner hosted by President Jimmy Carter with Jack Oswald, CEO of AliphaJet Inc. (www.AliphaJet.com), and Tracey Haslam, Americas vice president, Honeywell Process Solutions (NYSE:HON) (www.honeywellprocess.com), the former President endorsed the collaboration of large and small business to commercialize renewable drop-in biofuels. “I am optimistic ...
By Honeywell
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Neste Oil`s Interim Report for January-June 2011
Neste Oil CorporationStock Exchange Release28 July 2011 at 9.00 am (EET) Neste Oil's Interim Report for January-June 2011 The second-quarter comparable operating profit was EUR 32 million (Q2/2010: 5 million, which was negatively impacted by a major maintenance turnaround at the Porvoo refinery) The refining market weakened towards the end of the quarter due to concerns over ...
By Neste
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NREL Refines Method to Convert Lignin to Nylon Precursor
A new study from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrates the conversion of lignin-derived compounds to adipic acid, an important industrial dicarboxylic acid produced for its use as a precursor to nylon, plasticizers, lubricants, polyesters, and other popular products and chemicals. The demonstration is an important step toward the goal of garnering more ...
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