Mar 4, 2026
Scotland’s Celtic Renewables secures investment for facility at Grangemouth
Bioethanol News
Mar 4, 2026
A leading US biofuels association is calling for permanent, nationwide access to E15 petrol as a means of easing the sharp rise in fuel prices triggered by escalating conflict in the Middle East.
The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) has urged Congress to authorise uninterrupted, year‑round sales of the 15% ethanol blend, arguing that the current oil price spike highlights... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Mar 2, 2026
The European Commission’s decision to circumvent the democratic process by provisionally applying the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is yet another sign that the deal is a bad one for Europe, argued ePURE.
This is especially for the strategically important EU renewable ethanol industry and the European agricultural sector, the organisation added.
In addition to ignoring... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 16, 2026
NASCAR has announced a landmark partnership with POET, the world’s largest producer of biofuels, naming the company as its official bioethanol partner.
Under the agreement, NASCAR will become the first major motorsport series to use zero-carbon bioethanol in combination with its existing fuel partner, Sunoco.
Starting this season, POET will sponsor the “POET... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 9, 2026
Cemvita and Radix has made progress in front-end engineering for a circular bio-oil project in Brazil focused on converting crude glycerin, a biodiesel byproduct, into ultra-low carbon intensity bio-oil for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other advanced biofuels.
Brazil has historically been a global leader in biofuel, primarily through bioethanol.
Cemvita’s... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 3, 2026
Brazil is accelerating its leadership in renewable energy with the expansion of second-generation ethanol (E2G) production, marked by the development of new advanced biofuel plants across the country.
These facilities convert sugarcane bagasse and agricultural residues into low-carbon ethanol, significantly increasing fuel output while reducing greenhouse gas emissions... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 20, 2026
Rapid policy shifts, sustainability targets, and process-level innovations have fundamentally reshaped the global biofuel landscape over the past three years, writes Dr Raj Shah, Diogo Moscato and Mathew Stephen Roshan.
This review examines recent technological, regulatory, and market-driven developments in corn- and sugarcane-based ethanol production, with emphasis on... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 20, 2026
Gevo has been awarded US Patent No. 12,486,207 B2 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The patent broadens protections for different catalyst combinations and explicitly protects the use of ethanol-to-olefins (ETO) technology to produce fuels.
Gevo is developing ETO with partners LG Chem to deploy Gevo’s next-generation ETO process for renewable... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 19, 2026
Whitefox Technologies has successfully installed its Whitefox ICE Plus membrane dehydration system at Redfield Energy, marking the first ICE Plus installation in the United States.
The new system enables Redfield Energy to increase ethanol production while using fewer resources, advancing its goal of lowering carbon emissions.
“The Whitefox system has significantly... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 16, 2026
The conversion of methanol and ethanol to hydrocarbon fuels has been done for many years. The two dominant pathways are methanol to gasoline (MTG) and ethanol to jet (ETJ), which is also known as ethanol to kerosene (ETK), writes Stephen B. Harrison, Managing Director at sbh4 consulting, Germany.
The smaller methanol molecule is ideal to produce the lighter gasoline... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 12, 2026
POET, the world’s largest producer of biofuels, has unveiled ambitious plans to double ethanol production at its Shelbyville, Indiana bioprocessing plant.
The expansion will see output at the facility increase from 98 million to 193 million gallons of bioethanol annually, boosting the production of key coproducts such as dried distillers grains and corn oil. Construction... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jan 7, 2026
Gevo has announced a strategic leadership transition designed to position the company for continued growth and innovation.
Dr Paul Bloom has been appointed president of Gevo and a director on Gevo’s board of directors.
Gevo’s long-standing chief executive officer and board member, Dr Patrick Gruber, has assumed the role of executive chair of the board.
As part of... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 22, 2025
XCF Global, Southern Energy Renewables and DevvStream have announced a non-binding tripartite memorandum of understanding to jointly explore the potential development of a next-generation low-carbon fuels platform designed to accelerate SAF adoption and expand domestic capacity.
The collaboration would seek to increase long-term SAF supply across multiple production pathways... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 17, 2025
ePURE, the European Renewable Ethanol Association, has responded to the European Parliament’s vote on enhanced safeguard measures in the context of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.
The European Parliament voted in favour of stricter safeguards to protect EU agricultural producers by lowering the threshold for triggering investigations into imports from Mercosur countries... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 15, 2025
VTTI and Connex, partners in the development of the Greenstock Pretreatment Facility (GPF) at VTTI’s terminal in Amsterdam (ETA), have announced that the project has entered the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) phase.
This milestone marks a significant step towards the facility’s planned operational launch in 2029, reinforcing both companies’ shared commitment... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 11, 2025
Celtic Renewables has secured £6.23 million (€7.1 million) in new funding from the Scottish Government to scale its business producing green chemicals made from by-products and waste from the food and drink industry.
Celtic Renewables will put the funding towards the planning and construction of a new £120 million (€137 million) industrial-scale biorefinery at... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 10, 2025
MOL Group has completed a successful production test of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its Slovnaft refinery in Bratislava, marking a significant step in the company’s energy-transition strategy.
During the trial, HVO was produced by co-processing vegetable-origin feedstock — specifically cashew nut shell oil — with crude... [Read More]
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