Automotive and hybrid fuel systems and technologies developer U.S. Energy Initiatives Corp. Inc. and California-based Promethean Biofuels signed a biodiesel production agreement that will bring Promethean’s facility to its maximum capacity starting in a couple of weeks. Biodiesel Magazine reports Promethean could produce 2.1 to 3 MMgy, and the two companies could split the revenues which could top $6 million …
Rise in Alt Fuels Prompts Training Network
Several of the top alternative fuel experts in the U.S. have joined forces to form the Alternative Fuel Training Network, launched this month on the website AFVtraining.net. With a rise in alternative fuel vehicles on the road coupled with a rise in biofuels and alternative fuels at the pump, a need has been created for professional alternative fuel fleet training. …
Biodiesel Keeps U.S. Tallow at Home
The world is seeing less of American tallow as biodiesel makers turn more of the animal grease into the green fuel. This article from Bloomberg says U.S. tallow exports are expected to fall nearly 4 percent because the biodiesel market is squeezing the supply and keeping the price up: Tallow shipments from the U.S. may decline to 680,000 metric tons …
Former EPA Official Joins Biodiesel Board DC Office
A new face will oversee the National Biodiesel Board’s regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C. The NBB has hired Lindsay Fitzgerald, who comes from the EPA, where she served as a specialist in the Office of Transportation and Air Quality working on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): “We are excited to hire someone of Lindsay’s skills and experience and to be …
Following the Future of Biodiesel
An analysis of where the biodiesel industry is headed is optimistic. Of course, the report comes from a company intimately involved in the green fuel. This article posted on Stockhouse.com from biodiesel producer FutureFuel Corp. looks at where some of the best prospects for biodiesel are – in particular how biodiesel demand is projected to grow, the biodiesel supply appears …
Atlanta Biodieseler Celebrates One Year
A Georgia-based biodiesel maker is celebrating its first year in business for its retail station. Atlanta’s Clean Energy Biofuels, which touts its biodiesel as the only in the country that is made using 100 percent solar power, threw a party for the one-year anniversary of the opening of their retail biodiesel station by hosting Atlanta Green Drinks, a monthly networking …
CRFA: Gov’t Inflating Renewable Diesel Numbers
The Canadian government says imports are flooding its renewable diesel mandate, but a group that works for renewable diesel and biodiesel says those numbers are being overblown in an attempt to hurt that mandate. This article in The Western Producer says the government believes the country’s renewable fuel content will consist of 90 percent imports, buoyed by imported soybean and …
Report Shows Biodiesel, Natural Gas Promise
Biodiesel and its close cousin, renewable diesel, along with natural gas show the most promise in the alternative fuels arena… that’s according to a report from the California Electric Transportation Coalition (CalETC). The report says the alternative fuels sector in California has developed faster than expected, and recent developments indicate the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and its goal …
Texas Company to Recycle Tires into Biodiesel
A city on Texas will be turning old tires into biodiesel. KGBT-TV reports that the City of Harlingen will send the old tires to The Tire Recycling and Processing LLC facility where they’ll be turned into the green fuel: “This effort will result in fewer tires being disposed of in landfills effectively decreasing the volume of debris in our landfills,” …
Pacific Biodiesel Taps Millington as CEO
Pacific Biodiesel Technologies has tapped Samuel Millington as CEO for the Hawaiin biodiesel maker. This company news release says the long-time Hawaii resident joins PBT as the company ramps up at Big Island Biodiesel, a state-of-the art, 5.5 MMgy facility: “I’m thrilled to be a part of the Pacific Biodiesel family of companies,” said Millington. “I’m also humbled. Pacific Biodiesel …