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Growth Energy has urged the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to include the ethanol industry in its effort to reach the Biden administration’s goals for the expanded use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The administration’s SAF Grand Challenge pledges to reach 3 billion gallons of SAF production per year by 2030 and 35 billion gallons per year by 2050.
“To meet these goals, it will…
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A homegrown sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry could help decarbonise the hard-to-abate aviation sector and create thousands of regional jobs with grants backed by the government.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will invest $30 million (€18 million) to support development of domestic SAF production from agricultural feedstocks.
The global air transport industry is…
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bp ventures committed $10 million (€9 million) in WasteFuel - a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels.
Globally, solid waste production totals about 2 billion metric tons annually and is expected to increase to 3.4 billion metric tons by 2050.
bp is working to establish…
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Cathay Pacific continues to make progress towards achieving its goal of using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for 10% of its total fuel use by 2030 by uplifting SAF onto its commercial flights for the very first time outside its Hong Kong hub.
Blended and supplied by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific, this batch of SAF was refuelled at Singapore Changi Airport on to four Cathay Pacific cargo flights.…
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Neste is partnering with Biofuel Express to sell Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ in Denmark.
Biofuel Express will distribute and sell Neste MY Renewable Diesel, while Neste will ensure sufficient volumes of the fuel.
The fuel has been available in the Danish market since April when Neste entered the market.
“We are delighted to deepen our partnership with Neste,” said Martin Sebastian…
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Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil) and Praj Industries have signed a term sheet to advance plans to strengthen biofuels production capacities in India.
Various biofuels covered under this MoU include sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), ethanol, compressed biogas (CBG), biodiesel and bio-bitumen among others.
Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, chairman, IndianOil, said: "The collaboration with an Indian…
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Victor and Neste are celebrating one year of a successful partnership together. They have now called for commercial airlines to consider replicating their working blueprint - which they believe could significantly accelerate SAF demand globally.
Since June 2022, when Victor and Neste launched this first direct-to-consumer SAF blueprint.
The average percentage of fossil fuel voluntarily…
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Airbus and LanzaJet have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to address the needs of the aviation sector through the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The MoU establishes a relationship between Airbus and LanzaJet to advance building SAF facilities which will use LanzaJet’s Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology. This agreement also aims to accelerate the certification and…
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Syclus will build and operate a plant for the production of renewable ethylene from sustainable ethanol in Chemelot Industrial Park, Geleen, the Netherlands.
With an annual production capacity in the range of 100,000 tonnes, this renewable ethanol-to-ethylene production plant would be a first in Europe, paving the way for a more sustainable way of producing plastics.
The facility will rely on…
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Twelve and Washington Governor Jay Inslee have announced plans to scale the production of E-Jet® fuel, Twelve’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from CO2 and renewable energy.
A commercial-scale production facility is planned to be built in Moses Lake. The announcement was made during a press conference held at the Washington State exhibit at the 2023 Paris Air Show in Le Bourget,…
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Korean Air has partnered with GS Caltex to conduct test flights using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The test flights using SAF will be analyzed and the results will be used by the Korean government to establish SAF quality standards and accelerate commercialisation.
The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on June 29 to cooperate on a series of test flights using SAF.…
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India’s first commercial passenger flight was flown using a blend of indigenously produced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on May 19.
Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) in partnership with Praj supplied a blend of SAF to AirAsia India flight i5-767, which took off from Pune bound for New Delhi.
In New Delhi, the Minister of the Union Hardeep Singh Puri received this special flight.
Mr Puri…
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) will launch the IATA World Sustainability Symposium (WSS) in Madrid, Spain on 3-4 October.
With governments now aligned with the industry’s commitment to decarbonise aviation by 2050, this symposium will facilitate critical discussions, in seven key areas:
• The overall strategy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, including sustainable…
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it will open quarterly application windows for the remaining $450 million (€411 million) provided in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for the Department’s Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) starting on July 1.
The programme provides grants to pay up to 75% of the cost of equipment for station owners who add or upgrade…
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New legislation to tackle waste by improving recycling rates and increasing reuse has been published by the Scottish Government.
The Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill was introduced by Lorna Slater MSP, the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity.
The ambition of a circular economy is to generate a society where products are used and re-used for as long as possible,…
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