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By California Ethanol & Power

August 24, 2023

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Sugar Valley Energy, a subsidiary of California Ethanol & Power LLC, and STARS Technology Corp. are collaborating to delploy hydrogen production technology at SVE's planned, fully permitted biorefinery in California.

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Port of Tyne and Drax Group plc have signed a new four-year agreement that aims to ensure an uninterrupted supply of sustainably sourced biomass pellets to Drax Power Station, a biomass-fired power plant in the U.K.

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Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC, a joint venture partnership between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and a subsidiary of Brightmark LLC has announced the delivery of the first renewable natural gas (RNG) from its Larson Project in Okeechobee County, Florida.

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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on Aug. 18 vetoed HB 142, a bill that aims to support future operations at Burgess BioPower, a 75-megawatt (MW) biomass-fired power plant located in Berlin, New Hampshire.

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From the forest to the sea, a NIU professor is researching the possibility of building the world's first biomass pipeline, an idea with revolutionary potential for the future of biomass transportation. Throughout the years, transportation of large and consistent feedstock has been a limiting factor to biomass’ ability to replace fossil fuels. Mahdi Vaezi, associate professor at Northern Illinois University, has an innovative solution to this problem: hydro-transport of biomass, such as wood chips, wheat straw and sawdust, via pipeline. Now, he and his team are researching what it would take to make the world’s first biomass pipeline a reality.

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The Surface Transportation Board is soliciting nominations to fill six vacancies on its Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee. One of those vacancies is to be filled by a biofuel producer or feedstock provider.

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Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, and eight colleagues on Aug. 14 sent a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan urging the agency to finalize long-stalled regulatory provisions to allow eligible biobased electricity to participate in the RFS.

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Opal Fuels Inc. released second quarter financial results on Aug. 9, reporting renewable natural gas (RNG) production was up 20 percent when compared to the same period of last year. RNG sold as transportation fuel was up 53 percent.

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Montauk Renewables Inc. on Aug. 9 announced it has signed a REC agreement with Duke Energy for a proposed waste-to-energy facility in North Carolina. The following day the company provided an update on various projects during a Q2 earnings call.

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Renewables are expected to account for 22 percent of U.S. electricity generation this year, expanding to 25 percent next year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Aug. 8.

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The U.K. government on Aug. 10 released its Biomass Strategy, which describes the steps the government intends to take to strengthen biomass sustainability. It also disucsses how sustainable biomass can be used to meet the U.K.'s net-zero goals.

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The U.S. DOE's Bioenergy Technologies Office awarded $2.18 million in funding to three projects as part of the 2023 Cooperative Research and Development Agreement call by the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium.

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Vision RNG has announced that its landfill gas (LFG) to renewable natural gas (RNG) project at Meridian Waste's Eagle Ridge Landfill in Bowling Green, Missouri is now fully operational. The project produces 375,000 MMBtu of RNG annually.

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Synthica Energy LLC, a developer of RNG projects, announced on Aug. 7 that it has closed on a large equity investment from the Infrastructure Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Global sustainable energy producer EDL and key project stakeholders Republic Services, NW Natural Renewables and Pennant Midwest have commenced operations at a renewable natural gas facility (RNG) near Youngstown, Ohio.

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Waga Energy has signed a commercial agreement with the Waste Commission of Scott County and Linwood Mining and Minerals Corp. to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) at the Scott Area landfill in Davenport, Iowa.

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Hamilton RNG Holdings LLC has broken ground on its new food waste digester project, which will produce RNG. The digester is expected to be completed in late 2024 and will process approximately 190,000 tons of food waste annually.

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The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) on July 31 announced that North America now has 300 operational renewable natural gas (RING) facilities, up from just over 30 facilities in 2011 when the RNG Coalition was founded.

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The DOE's BETO often requires FOA award recipients to comply with technical and economic validation of their novel technologies. The agency has released a new set of web resources to help awardees and applicants under the process.

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Drax Group plc on July 27 announced its pellet plants produced approximately 1.9 million metric tons of wood pellets during the first half of 2023, down slightly when compared to the 2 million metric tons of production reported for Q2 2022.

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Enerdyne Power Systems, a Landfill Group Company based in Charlotte, has commenced operation of a project collecting and upgrading landfill gas into pipeline quality RNG at the Twin Chimneys Landfill in Honea Path, South Carolina.

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West Biofuels LLC announced $1.5 million in grant funding from the USDA, including $1.2 million that will support the Burney, California-based Hat Creek Bioenergy Facility and $300,000 for a planned bioenergy facility in Mariposa, California.

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Babcock & Wilcox has been awarded a contract by NorthStar Clean Energy to conduct a BECCS engineering study to convert a coal-fired power plant in Michigan to use biomass fuel and retrofit the plant with B&W's SolveBright CO2 capture process.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on July 20 introduced the Biomanufacturing and Jobs Act, which aims to strengthen the USDA's BioPreferred Program. Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., are cosponsoring the bill.

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The U.S. DOE's BETO on will host a Bioenergy Cybersecurity Workshop on Sept. 11. The virtual event will focus on the identification of cybersecurity risks in biofuel and bioproduct manufacturing as well as ways to address those risks.

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Drax has issued a formal response to “BECCS Done Well: Conditions for Success for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage,� an independent report completed by Forum for Future in 2022 at the request of Drax.

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The USDA is making $21.25 million in technical assistance grants available through the REAP to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses access federal funds for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements.

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Clean Energy Technologies Inc. has entered into a fixed-price engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract with Vermont Renewable Gas LLC for the the proposed Lyndonville biogas to power facility.

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The USDA will invest $300 million through President Biden's Investing in America agenda to improve measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification of GHG emissions and carbon sequestration in climate-smart agriculture and forestry.

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Renewables are currently expects to account for 23 percent of U.S. electricity generation this year, increasing to 25 percent next year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released July 11.

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