May 5, 2023
Repsol and Ryanair sign agreement to promote use of renewable fuels
Bioethanol News
May 4, 2023
Shell expects sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be delivered from its 820,000 mt/year biofuels plant in Rotterdam from 2025.
The Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam plant is using HEFA to produce its biofuels -- a technology Shell called "proven and mature" – by refining vegetable oils, waste oils or fats using hydrogen.
The company said it will continue to... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 3, 2023
Jet2 plans a major investment into a new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant to be constructed in the North West of England – one of the first such deals in UK aviation.
The agreement will see Jet2 invest an equity stake in the plant and expect to receive more than 200 million litres of SAF over a 15-year period - which would be one of the longest SAF supply... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 2, 2023
Gadot Belgium operates a privately owned, 23 hectare multimodal terminal in the heart of Europe at the North Sea Port Ghent in Belgium.
With its extensive network of facilities and reliable partners, Gadot offers a wide range of sophisticated international supply chain and logistical chemical solutions.
The company is part of the international Gadot Group, with its... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 2, 2023
North Sea Port is one of Europe’s premier facilities located in Belgium and the Netherlands in north-west Europe.
Five years ago, Zeeland Sea Ports (Vlissingen and Terneuzen) in the Netherlands and the Flemish/Belgian Port of Ghent merged to form a single entity.
North Sea Port became the new brand name of the 60-kilometre-long cross-border Dutch-Flemish facility.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 27, 2023
Delta is making another multi-million-dollar commitment in sustainable aviation fuel on its quest to scale what is widely considered the airline industry’s largest proven decarbonisation lever.
Delta will purchase up to 10 million gallons of neat SAF from Shell Aviation over a two-year period for use at its hub at Los Angeles International Airport. This will increase... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 27, 2023
Danish technology company Kvasir Technologies has raised an investment round of €2.15 million from lead investor VÅR Ventures with participation from Maersk Growth.
Kvasir Technologies has raised a total of around €7 million this past year, including a €2.5 million non-dilutive grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) and various other project grants.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 25, 2023
Neste and Air Canada are expanding their collaboration with an additional supply of 2.5 million gallons (9.5 million litres) of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
The sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supplied to Air Canada will be blended with conventional jet fuel and used to power the airline’s flights from the San Francisco International Airport.
Air Canada has... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 25, 2023
XFuel has engaged DORIS, a leader in energy engineering, advisory and project management, to provide front end engineering and design support for its modular energy conversion facilities.
DORIS will support XFuel’s in-house engineering team to scale up facilities that use its unique modular mechanical carbon conversion technology (MECC).
These facilities will produce... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 24, 2023
Wizz Air has announced a £5 million (€5.65 million) investment in Firefly - a UK-based biofuel company.
This is the airline’s first equity investment in the research and development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The announcement supports Wizz Air’s broader sustainability strategy, which includes an ambitious fleet renewal programme.
The partnership with... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 21, 2023
UK industry body Sustainable Aviation said the cost of decarbonising air travel was likely to push up ticket prices and put some off flying.
Measures such as moving to higher-cost sustainable aviation fuel will "inevitably reduce passenger demand", the group said.
However it added that people will "still want to fly" despite "slightly higher costs", the BBC reported.
Annual... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 21, 2023
A new British Department for Transport document that highlighted policy scenarios for the UK’s 2025 sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) law has warned that unless a cap is placed on green jet fuel, carbon emissions may rise in other transport sectors.
In a Euractiv piece, it highlighted in the report that SAF made from used cooking oil and animal fats should be restricted... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 18, 2023
Apical has established a joint venture with Cepsa to produce second generation (2G) biofuels by constructing the largest plant in southern Europe.
This will be done through its renewable energy subsidiary Bio-Oils located in Huelva, Spain.
The joint venture will entail an investment of up to €1 billion, one of the largest private investments in the history of the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 17, 2023
EWABA has highlighted the ‘important’ issue of falsely certified biofuels which has become an issue in Germany.
The German federal environment ministry (BMUV) has announced it was aware of falsely certified biofuels circulating domestically, Argus Media has reported.
European biodiesel producers have been highlighting that fuel imported into the EU from China has... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 17, 2023
Crown is opening the doors to its recently completed liquids pilot plant.
The firm is offering customers access to a state-of-the-art continuous process environment for testing, validating, scaling and commercialising of renewable diesel/HVO, SAF and biodiesel.
Unique features of the Liquids Pilot Plant include Crown’s RD ReadyTM Pretreatment System that doubles... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 14, 2023
Neste and Ryanair have expanded their collaboration to enable the airline to power its full schedule of flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with a 40% blend of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
This significant increase in SAF usage represents the latest milestone towards Ryanair’s ambitious goal of operating 12.5% of flights with SAF by 2030 and further supports... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 13, 2023
Axens has acquired a stake in the BioTJet project to build and operate the largest European sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production unit using the Fischer-Tropsch process and BioTfueL® technology.
This unit will be built in France and will be started up by 2027.
BioTfueL® is an advanced biofuel production technology using the thermochemical route, developed and... [Read More]
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