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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is encouraging innovators, researchers and manufacturers to partner with the DOE’s national laboratories to accelerate wood heater innovation.

Montana Renewables completed ramp up of unit operations and delivered the successful startup of a feedstock pretreatment unit during the second quarter of 2023. The Great Falls, Montana-based facility produces renewable diesel and SAF.

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.

The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service have announced $4 billion in tax credits for projects that expand clean energy, critical materials manufacturing, or recycling.

SAF Magazine and the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) announced the preliminary agenda for the North American SAF Conference & Expo taking place Aug. 29-30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The USDA maintained its forecast for 2023-’24 soybean oil use in biofuel in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, released July 12. The outlook for 2023-’24 soybean production was reduced.

Yosemite Clean Energy LLC has been awarded a $5 million grant from the California Energy Commission. The funding will support the development of YCE's cutting-edge biomass-to-hydrogen production plant in Oroville, California.

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.

Louis Dreyfus Company and Global Clean Energy Holdings Inc. have agreed to jointly promote the sustainable cultivation of Camelina sativa (camelina) in South America, including the countries of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Musser Biomass and Wood Products will invest $7.5 million to expand operations and more than double its production of dried hardwood chips and sawdust. A portion of that material is supplied to wood pellet companies.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration increased its forecast for 2023 renewable diesel production in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released July 11. The forecast for 2024 renewable diesel production, however, was reduced.

The U.S. DOE on July 10 awarded a $2.5 million grant to the University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center to help advance a CCUS project at Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s renewable diesel plant in Dickinson, North Dakota.