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DECEMBER 28, 2018

Dairies produce about 25% of California’s methane emissions and have become targets of carbon regulations aimed to reduce climate change. Our 60 million gallon ethanol plant is capable of using biogas to replace petroleum natural gas to produce a lower carbon biofuel and generate additional Low Carbon Fuel Standard credits.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

ExxonMobil’s majority-owned affiliate Imperial Oil will invest about $720 million (US$560 million) to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in the country. Imperial also intends to use renewable diesel in operations as part of the company’s emission reduction plans. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

KGaA (SHS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the viability of transforming iron ore pellets into low-carbon hot briquetted iron (HBI) (a form of Direct Reduced Iron, DRI), a steel feedstock ( earlier post ) using green hydrogen generated from hydro-electricity in Canada. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 10, 2021

Industrial gases leader Air Products, and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex. The company’s technologies are used in over 1.5

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This shows an upward trend in the low-carbon hydrogen market development, which could be decisive in achieving over 111 million tons per annum (mtpa) capacity worldwide by 2030. mtpa low-carbon hydrogen capacity was announced in the US, Denmark, Egypt, Canada, Portugal, and other countries. million to over $3,001.1

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Imperial is moving forward with plans to construct a major renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta—the largest refinery in western Canada. The blue hydrogen and biofeedstock will be combined with a proprietary catalyst to produce premium low-carbon diesel fuel. Strathcona refinery.

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JULY 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. Image credit: Roksana Rashid, McGill University.

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JULY 8, 2010

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) awarded C$40 million (US$38.4 Included in the awards are $5 million to Electrovaya in support of battery development for plug-in hybrid applications; an award to Phostec Lithium for Li-ion cathode material development; an award to Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd. Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

a nationwide distributor of propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity, is purchasing a 39% stake in Oberon Fuels, a San Diego, CA-based development-stage producer of low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel. Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.,

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JULY 5, 2022

Canada will publish the final Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) in the Canada Gazette Part II on 6 July 2022. The CFR set increasingly stringent requirements on producers and importers to reduce the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel. In 2022 the carbon intensity reduction requirement will start at 2.4 gCO 2 e/MJ.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

U-Haul has purchased its first million gallons of renewable propane, which is available to customers at U-Haul autogas facilities across Southern California. Suburban Propane also recently invested in renewable DME provider Oberon Fuels. Today, U-Haul safely supplies propane to thousands of customers daily across the US and Canada.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Canada can succeed economically while meeting targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to an economic modelling study commissioned by the Pembina Institute and the David Suzuki Foundation. The study indicates that Canada can implement much stronger climate policies than the US and still prosper economically.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, and Ola Borten Moe, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, signed a joint statement on cooperation in the energy sector. The statement outlines four main priorities for cooperation between Norway and Canada in the energy sector: General. Renewable energy.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

U-Haul—the largest US retailer of propane—has purchased one million gallons of renewable propane to sell at its company-owned and -operated stores across California for the second year in row. No cost increase is passed on to U-Haul customers as a result of the renewable propane initiative. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Hyzon Motors, a leading supplier of heavy-duty hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles, announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Transform Materials, a provider of renewable hydrogen through its proprietary microwave reactor technology ( earlier post ). —David Soane, Transform Materials’ founder and CEO.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

million gallons of its renewable natural gas (RNG) to fuel the US’ largest transit bus fleet. Metro is committed to ensuring a seamless path towards a carbon-neutral future. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has signed a new agreement with Clean Energy Fuels for an estimated 47.5

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JUNE 18, 2021

Canada-based Covenant Energy Ltd. has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from vegetable oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit will be built in Saskatchewan, Canada, and is scheduled to go into operation early in 2024.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rio Tinto is investing US$87 million to increase its low-carbon aluminum production in Canada with 16 new smelting cells at its AP60 smelter, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Québec. It produces some of the world’s lowest carbon aluminum with renewable hydropower here in Québec.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), a US-based vertical integrator of nuclear technologies and services, Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C are teaming up to conduct research and development for carbon-free hydrogen production. The company is also pursuing a project to convert green hydrogen into ammonia or methanol.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The Blueprint provides a view of high impact energy technologies along with a set of implementation strategies as a roadmap to a low-carbon and more sustainable energy future. The low-Carbon Electricity Ecosystem. The Equinox Blueprint is a report from the Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 held in June 2011 in Canada. Source: WGSI.

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JULY 14, 2016

The Governments of Canada and Québec will provide $76.5 million in funding to AE Côte-Nord Canada Bioenergy Inc. for the production of renewable fuel oil (RFO) from forest residues. million gallons US) of renewable fuel oil per year. Production of renewable fuel oil is set to begin in 2017. million investment.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

ABB and Canada-based Hydrogen Optimized have signed an agreement to expand the companies’ existing strategic relationship. Hydrogen produced with low-to-zero carbon dioxide emissions is widely recognized as essential to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This includes an investment by ABB into Key DH Technologies Inc.

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MAY 23, 2022

Canada-based Nutrien Ltd. Building on the company’s expertise in low-carbon ammonia production, clean ammonia will be manufactured using innovative technology to achieve at least a 90% reduction in CO 2 emissions. Geismar makes two grades of ammonia—conventional “gray ammonia” and low-carbon blue ammonia. Source: Nutrien.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Canada-based Snow Lake Lithium has outlined plans to develop the first all-electric hard-rock lithium mine in Manitoba, Canada, thereby developing a domestic supply of this critical resource to the North America electric vehicle industry. The lithium mineralization occurs as spodumene, a coarse-grained mineral rich in lithium.

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JUNE 8, 2012

MHI), the government of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro, Red River College and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC has been completed and was recently unveiled in Manitoba, Canada. An all-electric, battery-powered prototype demonstration bus under joint development by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 15, 2014

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted five new and one revised Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications to the LCFS public comment website. The new pathways include two renewable diesel pathways; two biodiesel pathways, and one corn ethanol pathway. Methes Energies Canada Inc. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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MAY 16, 2014

Canada-based Petrostar Petroleum Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture with US-based Maverick Synfuels to facilitate the development and operation of GTL (gas-to-liquids technology) in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Suncor Energy, a Canadian integrated energy company that is one of the top oil sands producers in the country, will strengthen its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels to accelerate progress towards its objective to be a net-zero company by 2050. In 2002, Suncor partnered with Enbridge to build one of the first renewable.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AltAir Fuels LLC ( earlier post ) will receive $5 million to expand production of renewable diesel fuels at its Paramount facility in Los Angeles County from 30 million gallons per year to 40 million gallons per year, and allow for processing of additional feedstocks. Renewable diesel. ARV-14-021 ).

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JULY 10, 2021

BC is the first province in Canada to release a comprehensive hydrogen strategy. Establishing ambitious carbon-intensity targets and a regulatory framework for carbon capture and storage. British Columbia (BC) has the resources to produce both green and blue hydrogen with low carbon intensity.

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MARCH 6, 2018

in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. —Belkhir and Elmeligi (2018).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The MSG process, under license from Idaho National Laboratory, uses a combination of molten sodium salts (sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide) to convert a carbon feedstock and water into hydrogen. The MSG process occurs in a single high-pressure reactor in which a carbon-based feedstock and water react with a molten salt bath.

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MAY 6, 2011

The Province of Ontario (Canada) has selected Rentech’s proposed Olympiad Renewable Energy Centre (Olympiad Project) in The Township of White River (White River), Ontario, for a proposed supply of up to 1.1 The project will also produce 43 million liters (13 million gallons) annually of renewable naphtha, a chemical feedstock.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

GWP processing routes using both grid-mix electricity and renewable electricity were evaluated in-line with LCA best-practice and Global Battery Alliance requirements for the battery passport. HPMSM produced via EMM dissolution has a carbon footprint 59% lower at Chvaletice compared to HPMSM produced in China.

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APRIL 26, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), and Cap Clean Energy, a clean energy development company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop biofuels facilities in Canada to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) for the heavy duty transport sector.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

stake in the capital of Canada-based Hydrogenics Corporation , a leader in electrolytic hydrogen production equipment and fuel cells. million, reaffirms its long-term commitment to the hydrogen energy markets and its ambition to be a major player in the supply of carbon-free hydrogen, particularly for industry and mobility markets.

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APRIL 16, 2021

Topsoe has signed a contract with Tidewater for the delivery of Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology ( earlier post ) in Canada. The technology will be utilized in a new 3,000 barrels per day renewable diesel facility that will be constructed at the site of Tidewater’s existing Prince George refinery in British Columbia, Canada.

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