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Companies Commit to Development of Carbon Capture at Biomass Plants

Ørsted, Aker Carbon Capture, and Microsoft have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore ways to support the development of carbon capture and storage at biomass-fired heat and power plants in Denmark.

Clean Energy and Total Sign JV to Develop Carbon-Negative Fuel and Infrastructure

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and its largest shareholder, Total SE, have announced a 50/50 joint venture to develop carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) production facilities in the United States, as well as credit support to build additional downstream RNG fueling infrastructure.

Neste’s Acquisition of Bunge's Refinery Plant in Rotterdam Completed

On November 3, 2020, Neste announced that it would acquire Bunge Loders Croklaan's refinery plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The refinery plant is located next to Neste’s existing biorefinery and it consists of a pretreatment facility, tank farm, jetties and has a pipeline connection to Neste’s site. 

Nova Pangaea Technologies achieves technological validation of SARP (steam assisted rapid pyrolysis) technology

Nova Pangaea Technologies, based in Redcar, has reached a significant milestone in the development of its first-of-a-kind process to sustainably convert forestry and agricultural residues into sustainable biochemicals and biopolymers and drop-in products for advanced biofuels.

Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron, and Microsoft Collaborate on Carbon Negative Bioenergy

Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corporation, Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced plans to develop a ground-breaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce carbon negative power in Mendota, California.

Sustainable Water Management Key to Scaling up Bioenergy Production

Bioenergy is frequently considered one of the options to reduce greenhouse gases for achieving the Paris climate goals, especially if combined with capturing the CO2 from biomass power plants and storing it underground. Growing large-scale bioenergy plantations worldwide, however, does not just require land, but also considerable amounts of freshwater for irrigation – which can be at odds with respecting Earth’s Planetary Boundaries. An international team of scientists has used their most detailed computer simulations to date to calculate how much additional water stress could result for people worldwide in a scenario of conventional irrigation and one of sustainable freshwater use.

Enegix Energy to Build $5.4 Billion Green Hydrogen Facility in Brazil

Enegix Energy Pte Ltd has unveiled the Base One green hydrogen project in cooperation with the State Government of Ceará, an investment of $5.4 billion. Under the terms of the MoU signed on February 19 with the state governor Camilo Santana, Enegix will set up a  green hydrogen plant that will produce over 600 million kg of green hydrogen per year from already contracted 3.4GW of combined baseload wind and solar power through a partnership with Enerwind.

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