LanzaJet's Freedom Pines Fuel plant located in Soperton, GA is the world’s first alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant. It is expected to be completed by the end of 2022 and begin producing 10 million gallons of SAF and renewable diesel per year from sustainable ethanol, including from waste-based feedstocks in 2023.
Today North Coast Strategies joined the SME Climate Hub. The SME Climate Hub is an initiative founded by the International Chamber of Commerce, the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, the We Mean Business coalition, and the United Nations Race to Zero campaign, intending to support small and medium-sized businesses to build business resilience.
The Prix Voltaire is an award given to an individual who makes a difference through substantial relevance to society and has a clear innovative identity.
Awarded by the Nyenrode Business University, the award is based on the 17 sustainable development goals. Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, LanzaTech CEO, was the recipient of the 2021 Prix Voltaire International and received the distinguished award at a ceremony at the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, earlier this month.
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) proved successful in powering New Lab's 5G Studio, in Brooklyn, using Verizon's 5G network. The results were announced today during a virtual demo day. Fermata Energy installed a bidirectional charger and used their proprietary V2X energy management software to perform V2X activities with a Nissan LEAF using 5G technology. With the charger connected to Newlab's building energy load, their testing compared peak shaving and load balancing operations of the electric grid between 4G and 5G, proving 5G's ability to react to changes in the grid based on real-time data and with very low latency.
Who would have thought that steel mill off-gas would someday become apparel? Through LanzaTech's technology, they can turn pollution into practically anything we use today.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awarded $35 million to 15 research projects that aim to advance new technologies to decarbonize biorefinery processes used across the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors, including $4.1M to Skokie-based LanzaTech, to enhance existing technology to create everyday products from pollution.
Today, LanzaTech announced that it secured its 1,000th patent. A leader in the production of climate-friendly and sustainable products, through its disruptive and patented technology, LanzaTech captures waste carbon emissions (such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide produced in steel manufacturing) and converts it into fuels, chemicals and everyday goods, that would otherwise come from fossil resources. For a company that was established just 16 years ago, securing 1,000 patents is a notable achievement.
British Airways today announced a new partnership with sustainable jet fuel company LanzaJet, which will see the airlines power a number of aircraft with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from sustainable ethanol, produced in Soperton, GA starting in late 2022.
For the governments and utilities to be meet their goals of transitioning to renewable energy and electric vehicles, massive battery storage is needed to scale. They can do that through the use of vehicle-to-grid equipped electric vehicles and the V2G system to help transfer the power from the vehicle to the building.
Companies are facing a number of crises, a global pandemic, a recession, systemic racism, and the climate crisis. For business leaders today facing a global challenges and the impacts of climate change, Sustainability Leadership: A Swedish Approach to changing Your Company, Your Industry, and the World (Palgrave), by Henrick Henriksson, CEO of Scania and Elaine-Weidman Grunewald, co-founder of the AI Sustainability Center and former Chief Sustainability Officer at Ericcson is a must read.
