Media Coverage

We are fortunate to work with great people working on important issues. This week we thought we would share a little bit of the media coverage they have received this week and continue to celebrate the collaborations they are a part of and the work they are doing.

LanzaTech

LanzaTech harnesses the power of biology and big data to create climate-safe materials and fuels. With expertise in Synthetic biology, bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning coupled with engineering, LanzaTech has created a platform that converts waste carbon into new everyday products that would otherwise come from virgin fossil resources. LanzaTech’s first commercial-scale gas fermentation plant has produced over 20M gallons of ethanol which is the equivalent of keeping over 120,000 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Additional plants are under construction globally. LanzaTech is based in Illinois, USA, and employs more than 200 people. This week LanzaTech was named among other companies, that were shortlisted for funding through The Department for Transport Green Fuels, Green Skies competition, in the United Kingdom, to advance the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Announced as part of the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan, the Green Fuels, Green Skies (GFGS) competition will support eight companies as they pioneer new technologies, converting materials such as household waste, alcohol, carbon from the atmosphere, and sewage into SAF offering emissions savings of more than 70% compared to the use of conventional fossil jet fuel. LanzaTech also received additional media attention from an announcement with lululemon.  

DfT Announcement

 

lululemon Announcement

 Other mentions


LanzaJet

Launched in June 2020, by a carbon recycling company, LanzaTech (another North Coast Strategies client); LanzaJet, Inc., will produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for a sector requiring climate-friendly fuel options as it starts to recover from the impacts of COVID-19. With its approach to the commercialization of SAF, LanzaJet is creating regional jobs while enabling global decarbonization of the aviation sector. The LanzaJet process can use any source of sustainable ethanol for jet fuel production, including, but not limited to, ethanol made from recycled pollution, the core application of LanzaTech’s carbon recycling platform. Commercialization of this process, called Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) has been years in the making, starting with the partnership between LanzaTech and the U.S Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL developed a unique catalytic process to upgrade ethanol to alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) which LanzaTech took from the laboratory to pilot scale. The first ATJ plant (38M liters per year) will be located in Soperton Georgia, USA, and is planned for start-up in 2022. This week LanzaJet, along with British Airways and Nova Pangaea Technologies, was awarded funds from the UK's Department for Transport Green Fuels, Green Skies competition for Project Speedbird, to develop the first SAF production facility in the UK, converting wood waste to sustainable aviation fuel.

Fermata Energy

Fermata Energy’s turnkey V2X system makes it possible for EVs to combat climate change, increase energy resilience, and reduce energy costs. This week we announced that Marty Weiner Marty Weiner, a founding architect, and engineer of Pinterest and first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Reddit, has joined the Advisory Board of Fermata Energy. We also announced Scott Brierley has joined Fermata as Director of Automotive and Strategic Partnerships. Most recently, Scott led Nissan’s V2X bidirectional charging initiative in North America. Verizon also announced results from Fermata’s participation in Newlab which the media was catching up to and the City of Boulder was celebrating winning the Smart Cities Award in part due to Fermata Energy’s V2G technology and hardware.

Daniel Cherrin

DANIEL CHERRIN |served the City of Detroit as its Communications Director and the Press Secretary to Detroit Mayor, Ken Cockrel, Jr. He is a public relations + affairs specialist who just happens to be a lawyer, with 20 years of experience providing senior public relations and government relations’ counsel to organizations on state and federal regulatory and legislative matters, as well as issues affecting corporate and individual reputation, crisis management and the media. Daniel is the founder of NORTH COAST STRATEGIES (Est. 2005) an independent public relations consultancy that combines the best of a big agency with hands-on executive-level experience and support. As a signatory company to the United Nations Global Compact, we are dedicated to addressing issues around human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption. We are also focused on redefining your brand and changing the conversation to create an impact.