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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 passenger numbers…
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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 on environmental grounds,…
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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 southern Spanish region of…
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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 been falsely certified as…
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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 hydrotreater catalyst life,…
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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 Ryanair’s “Pathway…
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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 proven within the…
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Growth Energy, the US Grains Council and the Renewable Fuels Association jointly issued a statement after Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) finalised a rule that will allow producers more access to the Japanese biofuel market.
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor, US Grains Council President and CEO Ryan LeGrand, and Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper…
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Wizz Air has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cepsa for the supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from 2025.
The MoU gives Wizz Air the opportunity to purchase SAF from Cepsa to supply the airline’s route network across Spain.
Cepsa’s SAF will be produced from organic waste, such as used cooking oils or agricultural waste, among others.
The partnership follows an…
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Cathay Pacific has teamed up with the State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) to drive the further development of the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply chain in China.
SPIC is one of the largest state-owned energy companies in the Chinese mainland and a company with the world’s largest solar power installed capacity.
SPIC and Cathay Pacific have recently signed a Memorandum of…
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Vistara, India’s full-service carrier and a joint venture with Tata group and Singapore Airlines, has become the country’s first carrier to operate a wide-body aircraft using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a long-haul route.
The ground-breaking flight from Charleston International Airport, South Carolina, to Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, was operated in partnership with…
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Neste plans to start commercial production at its renewable fuels expansion project in Singapore in the coming weeks following trial runs, a senior company executive revealed.
The Finnish biofuel producer plans to inaugurate the 1.3 million tonne per year (tpy) plant in May, executive vice-president Carl Nyberg told Reuters.
The plant will boost Neste's sustainable aviation fuel capacity by up…
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The crop forecast for Argentina has been lowered again considerably, which has also reduced consumption and export estimates.
In its latest report, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) expects the global soybean crop in 2022/23 to reach around 375 million tonnes.
This would be down just under 8 million tonnes from the February forecast, but up 17 million tonnes on 2021/2022.
The decrease…
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German oil mills processed less rapeseed, sunflower seed and fewer soybeans in the first half of the running marketing year 2022/23 compared with the same period a year earlier.
According to information published by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), oil mills in Germany processed just under 4.5 million tonnes of rapeseed in the period July through December last year.…
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All Nippon Airways (ANA) has for the first time agreed to use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) that was blended in Japan under a public-private initiative led by the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).
ANA will procure the blended SAF from ITOCHU Corporation, and will use the fuel on ANA's international and domestic flights from Haneda and…
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