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Covestro signs first major renewable energy agreement for its U.S. operations

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has signed a 90 megawatt (MW) virtual power purchase agreement (vPPA) with Ørsted, a clean energy leader in the U.S. market, headquartered in Denmark. With various agreements in place, Covestro fosters the growth of renewable energy…

Neste supports Rio Tinto U.S. Borax mining site to transition to renewable diesel

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has partnered with Rio Tinto (London, U.K.) to help the company transition all of its heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable diesel at the U.S. Borax mine in Boron, California. The partnership helps Rio Tinto…

Pembina and Marubeni announce low-carbon ammonia project in Alberta

Pembina Pipeline Corp. (Calgary, Canada) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Marubeni Corporation to progress an end-to-end, low-carbon ammonia supply chain from Western Canada to Japan and other Asian markets. The Project includes the joint development of a world-scale,…

Brightmark, Chevron partnership plans five new RNG projects in Michigan

Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC is positioned to expand renewable natural gas (RNG) production with five new anaerobic digestion dairy farm projects in western Michigan, designed to convert animal waste to renewable fuels. Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC is a joint venture between…

Ohmium and NTPC to partner on largest-ever deal for PEM electrolyzers in India

Green hydrogen company Ohmium International, a manufacturer of advanced Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers,  announced that its India-based subsidiary has been selected as the PEM electrolyzer partner of NTPC Renewable Energy Limited (REL), the renewable energy subsidiary of NTPC, India’s…

TotalEnergies and TES to jointly develop a large-scale e-natural gas production unit

TotalEnergies (Paris) is joining forces with Tree Energy Solutions (TES) to study and develop a large-scale production unit in the United States for e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic gas produced from renewable hydrogen and CO2. The project, which is expected…

ExxonMobil signs carbon capture agreement with iron manufacturer Nucor

ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced that it will capture, transport and store up to 800,000 metric tons per year of CO2 from Nucor’s manufacturing site in Convent, Louisiana. The site produces direct reduced iron (DRI), a raw material used to make…

Toray announces breakthrough in PPS resin recycling process

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that its marketing & sales subsidiary, Toray Resins Europe GmbH (TREU) has established a recycling process for glass-fiber-reinforced polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin waste from injection molding processes. TREU created its process by leveraging proprietary compounding…

LyondellBasell pursues new electric furnace technology; collaborates with Technip Energies and Chevron Phillips Chemical

 LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Technip Energies (Paris) and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) to potentially design, construct and operate a demonstration unit using Technip Energies'…

Braven Environmental and Koch Project Solutions to collaborate on advanced recycling project

Braven Environmental LLC (Braven), a pioneering provider in the advanced plastics recycling sector, announced the execution of a strategic framework agreement with Koch Project Solutions (KPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, to provide project management contracting services (PMC) for Braven’s…