Energy Commission Releases 2013-2014 ARFVT Investment Plan
The California Energy Commission’s latest Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology investment plan “provides a solid foundation for the continued transformation of California’s transportation sector,” agency chair Robert Weisenmiller said Wednesday.
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Market Trends & Fleets Emphasized at Three-Day Conclave in Washington
Fleets & Fuels publisher and Alternative Clean Transportation Expo organizer Gladstein, Neandross and Associates has released the full agenda and speaker line-up for the 2013 conference taking place June 24-27 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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With Low Carbon Fuels Standard, Biodiesel Begins to Pay in California
The Iowa-based Renewable Energy Group is coming off of its best-ever quarter, with volumes up 14% and net income better than tripled, and sees even better times ahead as LCFS, California’s low carbon fuels standard, takes full effect.
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More than 35% of Transit Buses Used Alt Fuels or Hybrid Drives
“Public transportation is leading the way in green vehicles,” says the American Public Transportation Association, which says that more than 35% of U.S. public transportation buses employed alternative fuels or hybrid technology, as of January 1, 2011.
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Biofuels Outlet Features Locally Produced Biodiesel and Ethanol
Propel Fuels opened a “Clean Mobility Center” biofuels outlet in Fresno, Calif. today, emphasizing that it’s not only a first for the city, but that the renewable fuels offered are produced locally.
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Pipeline Connection Makes for ‘the Most Efficient Logistics Possible’
Hamilton, Ont.-based Biox Corp has an agreement to supply biodiesel to Shell Canada to satisfy a 2% federal renewables requirement. The two companies will share the cost of a pipeline to connect the Biox facility in Hamilton to Shell’s immediately adjacent distribution terminal by late this year.
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‘Continuous Cultivation and Crude Oil Production in New Mexico
San Diego-based Sapphire Energy is talking up a commercial agreement with Tesoro Refining and Marketing for San Antonio-based Tesoro to purchase algae-based crude oil from Sapphire’s “Green Crude Farm” in Columbus, N.M. Sapphire further reports that it recently achieved “continuous cultivation and crude oil production” there.
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Mississippi Facility Uses Pine Wood Chips – No Food
Pasadena, Texas-based Kior, Inc. reports initial shipments of the world’s first cellulosic biodiesel from its first commercial-scale facility in Columbus, Miss. Kior uses pine wood chips previously that previously fed a now-shuttered Columbus paper mill. Kior’s gasoline and diesel are “the first renewable hydrocarbon fuels in the U.S. manufactured at commercial scale and derived solely from non-food feedstocks to avoid competition with human food needs,” the company says.
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Rates Are Low and Coverage Broad in Washington in June
Organizers of the 2013 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo have released the conference agenda, promising a compelling program for transportation professionals looking to invest in alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies. Both vendors and fleet colleagues will discuss how best successfully navigate the transition to clean alternative fuels.
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Study Likens Damage to Deforestation in Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia,
RFA Issues a Rebuttal Citing ‘Crop Switching, Not Cropland Expansion’
A study by researchers at South Dakota State University has raised alarm about the impact of biofuels industry growth on grasslands in five upper Midwest states comprising the WCB, or western corn belt.
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