Mar 15, 2021
Sustainable aviation fuel taking off
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Mar 9, 2021
Craig Willis, the senior vice president for global markets at Growth Energy and the Climate Ethanol Alliance, said President Joe Biden has promised to open a new chapter in US trade talks around the world, which will be a boost for the biofuels sector.
He said: “The goal is to ease tensions and return to a more multilateral approach to opening new markets for US exports.... [Read More]
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Mar 8, 2021
Carbon reduction cannot wait – this is a statement that Renewable Energy Group (REG) has always lived by.
The world is facing many carbon reduction scenarios right now, and two of these options are to wait until technology comes to fruition, or take advantage of the technology that is available today.
While REG supports all initiatives to reduce carbon, it recognises... [Read More]
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Mar 8, 2021
At approximately 2.8 million tonnes, the incorporation of biofuels in diesel fuel blends reached its highest level in the past year since the quota regime was introduced in 2007.
The diesel fuel standard DIN EN 590 limits the incorporation rate of fatty acid methyl ester (biodiesel) to a maximum of 7% by volume.
According to the standard, HVO can be blended at up to... [Read More]
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Mar 4, 2021
Pat Gruber, CEO of Gevo, has expressed his views to Biofuels International about what the next 12 months will bring.
He said: “We appear to be in the midst of a great ‘awakening’. We can do something about GHGs, reduce them, and not break the bank while doing it. “The great issue is that roughly 73% of GHG emissions come from energy. It turns out that roughly... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2021
William Tebbitt, CEO of Green Biofuels, looks closer at the energy transition strategy announcements from major companies that may come in the next 12 months.
He added that he hoped we would see not only infrastructure and construction projects committing to the use of alternative and transition fuels to usher in that change, but other sectors, such as supermarkets announcing... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2021
The rising presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not a new problem and it is widely known.
In 2019, a new record amount of carbon dioxide was recorded in the atmosphere at around 409 ppm, and it will be increasing every year if past trends continue.
Carbon dioxide emissions have also been increasing every year with an increase of approximately 12 billion... [Read More]
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Feb 26, 2021
The CEO of Velocys Henrik Wareborn describes how the 12 months ahead looks set to be crucial for the development of the UK’s SAF industry.
He said: “Over the last year, significant progress was made by both industry and government, including a major project milestone for Altalto, Europe’s first wasteto- jet-fuel facility being developed by Velocys and our co-investor... [Read More]
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Feb 25, 2021
The CEO of GoodFuels has outlined how the company will be “building back from COVID-19” in the 12 months ahead with “sustainability in its sights”.
He said: “In 2020, many experts predicted that decarbonisation efforts would be delayed, suspended or entirely abandoned as the entire shipping sector faced one of its biggest challenges in history – the coronavirus... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2021
The secretary general at ePURE has outlined the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead for the organisation in the next 12 months.
Emmanuel Desplechin said if 2020 saw the EU setting ambitious new goals in the fight against climate change, this year would be the year in which policymakers figured out how to realise those goals.
He continued: “It won’t be easy.... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2021
Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.
With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, the company is driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry.... [Read More]
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Feb 22, 2021
Angel Alvarez Alberdi, the secretary general, EWABA, a leading biofuel industry figure discusses the opportunities and challenges for the year ahead.
He said: "If there was ever a perfect regulatory storm for the biofuels sector, this is it. This year the industry at large will face different waves of entwined new laws of essential importance for the sector.
"Take a... [Read More]
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Feb 22, 2021
In a recent interview Biofuels International spoke with Whitefox’s CEO Gillian Harrison about what trends they experienced during COVID-19 and how the company saw this impacting the ethanol sector going forward.
“One of the impressive things we have seen is how quickly some technologies have leapt forward more than five years in their natural evolution, in particular... [Read More]
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Feb 9, 2021
A Liquid Gas UK (LGUK) report has outlined the route to decarbonising non-domestic off-grid businesses using bioLPG.
The report found that LPG and bioLPG have the potential to replace one third of all the coal and oil currently used to heat non-domestic buildings as well as for industrial processing, saving 3.5million tones of CO2 - equivalent of taking over 240,000... [Read More]
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Jan 26, 2021
“Sustainable aviation fuel is not necessarily the same as biofuel. The fact that something is made from organic raw materials, does not necessarily imply that it is sustainable. This led to some confusion,” explained Karel Bockstael, vice president of Sustainability at KLM.
“For KLM, the term SAF better describes the alternative we use instead of fossil fuel. The... [Read More]