Global Clean Energy Holdings (OTC:GCEH) is a

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-based

renewable energy Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...

company with interests in the production and commercialization of non-food-based

feedstock A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials that are feedstock for future finished products. As feedst ...

s used for the production of biofuels, biomass, and renewable chemicals. It was founded in 2007.

History

In 2008, GCEH purchased approximately 5,000 acres of farmland in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The farm is a joint venture with

Stewart A. Resnick Stewart Allen Resnick (born December 24, 1936) is an American billionaire businessman. In 2018, Resnick was the wealthiest farmer in the United States. Resnick and his wife, Lynda Resnick, bought The Franklin Mint in 1986 and sold it in 2006. Sin ...

and

Selim Zilkha Selim Zilkha (born 1927) is an Iraqi-born British entrepreneur, who founded Mothercare, one of the UK's largest retail chains until it was put into administration in 2019. Early life Zilkha was born in 1927 in Baghdad to an Iraqi Jewish family, t ...

, two entrepreneurs with agricultural & alternative energy companies. The company currently owns and manages two

Jatropha ''Jatropha'' is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. The name is derived from the Greek words ἰατρός (''iatros''), meaning "physician", and τροφή (''trophe''), meaning "nutrition", hence the common name ...

farms in the Yucatán, the larger of the two, located in the county of Tizimin, is nearly 9000 acres. The other is a small, research-based farm located near the city of Mérida. On April 1, Interjet completed the first Jatropha-based biofuel test flight in

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. The fuel was manufactured by

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’s UOP LLC from oil produced by three Mexican Jatropha producers including Globales Energia Renovables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Clean Energy Holdings. In mid-2011, GCEH, Emerald Biofuels, and Honeywell's UOP LLC submitted a joint Renewable Fuel Standard pathway application to the U.S. EPA for Jatropha. A pathway is necessary for Jatropha-based renewable fuels to qualify for generating

Renewable Identification Number A Renewable Identification Number (or RIN) is a serial number assigned to a batch of biofuel for the purpose of tracking its production, use, and trading as required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard (R ...

s (RINS) under the

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. Two weeks after the U.S. EPA approved Camelina for RIN (

) generation under RFS2, Global Clean Energy announced its purchase of

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, LLC, in Camelina production and genetics. Completed on February 13, 2013, the acquisition was trumpeted by Honeywell's UOP LLC,

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, and other public and private bio-energy stakeholders.

Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Certification

In November 2012, GCEH became the first company based in North America and the only biodiesel feedstock producer to achieve Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) certification. Richard Palmer, CEO of GCEH, is a former member of the RSB Board of Directors.

Center for Sustainable Energy Farming

In November 2010, GCEH formed the Center for Sustainable Energy Farming (CFSEF), a non-profit research institution dedicated to advancing the quality of plant-based feedstocks for

biofuel Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (E ...

production. It is fueled by socially responsible clean energy produced from

. The Center‘s mission is to perform plant science research in

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breeding Breeding is sexual reproduction that produces offspring, usually animals or plants. It can only occur between a male and a female animal or plant. Breeding may refer to: * Animal husbandry, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rab ...

and

horticulture Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

, and further develop technologies to allow for the economic commercialization and sustainability of energy farms. The Center provides a common research platform to foster communication and cooperation among various national and international research institutions and organizations in the biofuel sector. From global economics, environmental and social perspective, this collaboration hope to contribute to the development of more productive energy farms capable of supplying large quantities of plant-based (non-food) oils to replace the use of

fossil fuels A fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of dead plants and animals that is extracted and burned as a fuel. The main fossil fuels are coal, oil, and natural gas. Fossil fuels ...

. The goals of this initiative are to create jobs in the

agri-business Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy, in which case it is also called bio-business or bio-enterprise. The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit w ...

and

alternative energy Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a Orders of magnitude (time), human timescale. It includes sources such as Solar power, sunlight, wind power, wind, the movement of Hydropo ...

industries, expand the use of non-productive land, reduce global dependency on oil reserves, and contribute to the reduction of

carbon emissions Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities strengthen the greenhouse effect, contributing to climate change. Most is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. The largest emitters include coal in China and larg ...

. The Center is focused on developing high-yielding commercial varieties of

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through interdisciplinary research cooperation across multiple scientific disciplines.Biodiesel Magazine
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References

External links

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