Sentences with phrase «in renewable diesel»
Drop - in renewable diesel or bio-jet are essentially indistinguishable from conventional diesel and jet fuel and can be blended at almost any level, making it an attractive option for military or airline use.
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The province requires 5 % renewable - fuel content in gasoline and 2 % in diesel, which amounts to 400 million litres a year.
As a clean, renewable alternative to dirty kerosene lamps and diesel generators, Matthews, now the founder of Uncharted Play based in Harlem in New York City, invented a groundbreaking rotational energy harnessing and generating soccer ball, simply called SOCCKET — all at the age of 19.
In coastal markets with an attractive wave climate, we are less expensive than diesel and can often out - compete other renewables — including solar and wind — on price.
«In an effort to improve our air quality, my company is in the process of implementing a significant project to replace these carbon based diesel generators with solar - powered alternatives which will run off the sun's pure renewable energIn an effort to improve our air quality, my company is in the process of implementing a significant project to replace these carbon based diesel generators with solar - powered alternatives which will run off the sun's pure renewable energin the process of implementing a significant project to replace these carbon based diesel generators with solar - powered alternatives which will run off the sun's pure renewable energy.
New York City has invested in some 900,000 gallons of renewable diesel — made mostly from animal fat and vegetable oil instead of petroleum.
At tests at a giant seawater tank in New Jersey called Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility, the Oleo Sponge successfully collected diesel and crude oil from both below and on the water surface.
In August that hole was plugged: The fuel Appel makes, known officially as renewable diesel, received a subsidy of $ 1 per gallon from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which took effect in JanuarIn August that hole was plugged: The fuel Appel makes, known officially as renewable diesel, received a subsidy of $ 1 per gallon from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which took effect in Januarin January.
This is an accounting trick of sorts so the island generates as much energy from renewables as it consumes in nonrenewable diesel and gasoline.
The project, which will co-produce full replacement renewable jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and Bioplus nanocellulose from woody biomass in an integrated biorefinery at AVAPCO's site in Thomaston, Georgia, has received a...
Neste, currently largest producer of renewable drop - in fuels (primarily diesel) with its NEXBTL platform (earlier post), has filed a patent (US20150144087) on a gasoline composition (and the method for making it) comprising up to 20 vol % (preferably from about 10 - 15 vol.
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) staff has released for public comment four new Tier 2 renewable diesel (RD) pathways using soy oil, used cooking oil, tallow, and corn oil at the Diamond Green facility in St. Charles, Louisiana.
He did his postdoctoral work in the lab of Jay Keasling, a pioneer of engineering microbes that consume renewable feedstock and spit out useful chemicals like diesel fuel or fragrance molecules for the cosmetics industry.
And in Los Angeles, the ground service equipment for eight airlines will now be fueled with renewable diesel — made from grass clippings and other organic waste — because of the FAA's Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative.
Liquid fuel providers — producing and selling diesel fuel, gasoline, or biofuels — and electricity providers — «fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete for the transportation dollar.
Similarly, the Energy Commission's Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) is providing approximately $ 36 million in cost - share support for projects that receive awards through DOE solicitations covering alternative transportation fuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development acRenewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) is providing approximately $ 36 million in cost - share support for projects that receive awards through DOE solicitations covering alternative transportation fuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development acrenewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development activities.
The regulation has been softened since but still operates to push renewable projects to more remote areas where they can compete with high - cost fuel like diesel, and makes them uncompetitive in areas like Java where they compete with low - cost, abundant coal.
He called on Canada's national government to provide more financial help for climate change mitigation, particularly in renewable power, to reduce the costs of importing diesel.
The intent of this solicitation is to encourage production of alternative and renewable transportation fuels such as biomethane, renewable gasoline and diesel substitutes in California that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and petroleum fuel demand, and stimulate economic development in the state.
According to a landmark plan, India aims to install 275 GW of renewable energy by 2027 — as a point of reference, total installed electrical capacity in 2016 hovered around the 300 GW mark, 70 percent being derived from coal gas and diesel.
In addition to the renewable diesel (green diesel) the process produces a liquid petroleum gas vapor stream (LPG vapor); a liquid petroleum liquid stream (naphtha LPG); a purge gas stream; and a waste steam stream.
They use backup generation capacity from factories (often diesel generators) to match supply to demand in periods of low renewable power generation.
The realistic opportunities for increasing supply of transportation fuel soon suggest that government policies should encourage the commercialization of alternative fuels that can be used in the existing infrastructure: cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel / renewable diesel.
In November 2012, EPA received two petitions for a reconsideration of the September 27, 2012 rulemaking entitled «Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 2013 Biomass - Based Diesel Renewable Fuel Volume» which established a volume requirement of 1.28 billion gallons for biomass - based diesel in 2013 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) prograIn November 2012, EPA received two petitions for a reconsideration of the September 27, 2012 rulemaking entitled «Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 2013 Biomass - Based Diesel Renewable Fuel Volume» which established a volume requirement of 1.28 billion gallons for biomass - based diesel in 2013 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) prograin 2013 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
Created at a time of energy dependence and domestic energy scarcity, [the Renewable Fuel Standard] has outlived its usefulness, and could create serious fuel supply disruptions and by some estimates a rise in the cost of gasoline by as much as 30 percent and diesel fuel by as much as 300 percent.
EPA established the volume requirements and associated percentage standards that apply under the RFS2 program in calendar year 2013 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass - based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel.
In addition to purchasing renewable electricity and green natural gas for the event, GHG emissions associated with the use of diesel generators and event vehicles (i.e. shuttle buses and courtesy vehicles) will be neutralized through the purchase and retirement of high quality carbon offsets, helping to ensure event operations are carbon neutral.
After a fire destroyed the previous diesel - fired power plant in 2004, the island set a goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2015.
Therefore, intermittent renewables are not a suitable source of power for pumped hydro, except in a few special, extraordinary cases --(such as El Heiro island where they have a 700 m high extinct volcano crater providing a large upper reservoir, good wind resource and are replacing high - cost diesel generation.)
Geothermal and Wind Energy Projects 9 St. Lucia Energy Week n December 6th to 10 th, 2004 — Theme: A Vision for St. Lucias Energy Future u Minister of Energy's address on Television and Radio u Energy Supplement Placed In the Local Newspapers u Energy Exhibition and School Project Competition — 50 participants, 10 projects u Seminar On National And Regional Energy Initiatives n Energy / n Renewables supply 25 % of all energy needs and cost less than diesel u Geothermal — from the volcano u Small hydropower /
Industrials can install or procure renewable energy; however, they may have requirements in terms of the quality of supply and load profile that could require connection to the grid or other technologies, such as storage and back - up diesel generation.
The Renewable Remote Power Generation Program, which began in July 2000, provides financial support for the conversion of diesel - based generators to generators dependent upon renewable energy resources and techRenewable Remote Power Generation Program, which began in July 2000, provides financial support for the conversion of diesel - based generators to generators dependent upon renewable energy resources and techrenewable energy resources and technologies.
As of October 2014, Mongolia's total installed capacity for power generation from all sources stood at 1.09 GW, 90 % of it in CHP (combined heat and power) coal - fired plants, with 2 % in hydroelectric, 2 % in diesel, and 6 % in non-hydro renewables, mostly wind.
Two other projects are afoot in the middle of the country, including one that is already producing renewable diesel that can be blended into jet fuel at a ratio of one part in 10 as soon as ASTM gives the green light.
These are easily the first access markets for storage and with the penetration of renewable or gas - plus - storage and diesel or a combination of multiple green power sources with some fossil power mixed in; that's a sweet spot to focus on, while helping these nations alleviate environmental concerns.
Renewable diesel and bio-jet are commonly called «drop - in fuels.»
A team of researchers from Colorado State University's Energy Institute has received a $ 1.2 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to look at making natural gas engines as efficient as diesel engines in the same class.
Already sourcing over 80 % of its global electricity consumption from renewable sources, the company aims to reach 100 % by investing in solar and wind energy and converting diesel generators into lithium storage batteries for maximising its use of renewable power.
Though not exclusively an energy bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided for more than four billion dollars in federal tax credits to homeowners for energy efficiency improvements, authorized additional renewable energy and efficiency research and development, and called for reductions in diesel engine emissions.
«According to the EPA's Renewable Fuel Standards Program Regulatory Impact Analysis, released in February 2010, biodiesel from soy oil results, on average, in a 57 % reduction in greenhouse gases compared to fossil diesel, and biodiesel produced from waste grease results in an 86 % reduction»
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) staff has released for public comment four new Tier 2 renewable diesel (RD) pathways using soy oil, used cooking oil, tallow, and corn oil at the Diamond Green facility in St. Charles, Louisiana.
We're talking about a world where California gets more than 50 percent of its electricity from renewables in 2030 (up from 25 percent today), where zero - emissions vehicles are 25 percent of the fleet by 2035 (up from about 1 percent today), where high - speed rail is displacing car travel, where biofuels have replaced a significant chunk of diesel in heavy - duty trucks, where pastures are getting converted to forests, where electricity replaces natural gas in heating, and on and on.
They are going from near 100 % diesel - generated power to 50 % renewables in a matter of a few months!
Well, in my opinion, it means we need to treat our liquid fuels (with high - energy density) as very precious resources as we have yet to prove that we can create a renewable liquid fuel even nearly equivalent to gasoline (petrol) or diesel.