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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.

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.

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.

The United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund, which aims to increase the supply of SAF through the support of start-ups, has increased its investment power to nearly $200 million and added eight new corporate partners.

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.

Reps. Mike Flood, R-Neb., and Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., on July 25 introduced the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Accuracy Act of 2023, a bipartisan bill that aims to identify the standards required to meet the definition of SAF at the FAA.

Advanced Refining Technologies LLC, a joint venture of Chevron and W. R. Grace & Co. has launched ENDEAVOR, a hydroprocessing catalyst solution to produce renewable diesel and SAF from 10 percent renewable sources.

Gevo Inc. has entered into a master services agreement with a subsidiary of McDermott International Ltd. to provide front end engineering and early planning services for Gevo’s development of multiple SAF facilities in North America.

More than 2.04 billion RINs were generated under the RFS in June, up from 1.86 billion generated during the same month of last year, according to data released by the U.S. EPA. Total RIN generation for the first half of 2023 reached 11.39 billion.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released data showing U.S. manufacturers produced approximately 860,000 tons of densified biomass fuel in April, with sales reaching 610,000 tons.

International Airlines Group has announced an investment into Nova Pangaea Technologies, an U.K.-based cleantech company whose technology converts agricultural waste and wood residue into ethanol that can be processed into SAF.

Washington state is investing $22 million in dairy digesters, part of the 2023-2025 budget for the state’s Climate Commitment Act. Based on a new report, they’re currently considered one of […] The post Tribes and dairy farmers made a model renewable energy program. It’s about to get even better appeared first on American Biogas Council.