From Australia comes news via our friends at Bioenergy Australia of the Australian Federal Government’s Future Made in Australia initiative. An investment has been outlined of $1.7 billion over the next decade in the Future Made in Australia Innovation Fund, to support the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to commercialize net zero innovations including low-carbon liquid […]
Myself, I first landed on Governors Island in New York Harbor in the spring of 1968 when my parents dumped my sister and myself in the Coast Guard nursery for a couple of days, while the folks made official and personal visits. However, the first European settlers arrived at Governors Island on May 20, 1624, […]
By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest Go ahead, blend any amount of ethanol you want. And here’s why. Has the E15 Saga come to an end? At least the beginning of the end? Or the end of the beginning so that we can get to the end? The […]
From Sweden comes news that Bright Renewables has won the technical tender from Tekniska verken, a major Swedish multi-utility energy company, for the supply of CO2 liquefaction technology. The system will be installed at Tekniska verken’s biogas plant Svensk Biogas in Linköping to purify and liquefy carbon dioxide (CO2) from the biogas production. The facility, […]
From Massachusetts, New York and Texas, we received news that the Carbon to Value Initiative, a partnership of the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (UFL), Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA has opened the door for applications from startups developing carbontech solutions for the fourth cohort of the accelerator — now through […]
By Pete Rocha, LEC Partners Special to The Digest The aviation industry produces 2-3% of all CO2 emissions globally. This percentage will likely grow over time as the developing world becomes richer and the demand for air transportation increases. In the graphic below, we see that in passenger travel demand is expected to increase by […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released guidance on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act. The Treasury Department’s guidance provides important clarity around eligibility for the SAF Credit. The credit incentivizes the production of SAF that achieves a lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions reduction of […]
In Florida, the Daily Digest announced that the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Projects & Technologies, ABLC NEXT 2024, will take place at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, October 23-25, 2024, as the industry undertakes more Networking for Net Zero. More than 600 delegates and 100 speakers are expected from more than 400 […]
The Turin Joint Statement on Sustainable Biofuels has now been released, and is here. WHAT THE TURIN JOINT STATEMENT (TJS) IS The Turin Joint Statement seeks to focus attention on G7 Ministers (and be extension heads of state) regarding the need for sustainable biofuels to achieve climate goals such as Net Zero by 2050. The […]
Turin, Italy — 28 April 2024 To Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, and European Commission We the undersigned, noting that, despite efforts to diversify energy sources, fossil fuels still meet 95% of the overall energy needs of the transport sector, which currently accounts for 26% of global final energy consumption and […]
