
Mar 25, 2022
Ryanair’s pathway to net zero includes greater SAF usage
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Mar 25, 2022
Gevo has signed an agreement with Delta Air Lines to supply 75 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) per year for seven years.
Gevo estimates that the agreement should generate approximately $2.8 billion (€2.5 billion) of revenue over the seven-year term of the agreement.
The Agreement replaces the existing agreement signed with Delta in 2019 to purchase... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2022
Clariant has announced that it has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI).
The aim of the RCI is to support and accelerate the transition from the use of fossil carbon to the use of renewable carbon in the chemical industry. Switching to renewable carbon sources prevents additional fossil carbon entering the atmosphere and thus addresses a core problem of climate... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2022
Velocys has announced that its subsidiary Altalto Immingham has sold its 100% interest in Rula Developments (RDIL) as planned.
Rula owns the site for the proposed Altalto waste-to-sustainable-fuel project, which is being developed in collaboration with British Airways.
Rula has been sold to funds managed by Foresight Group for £9.75 million (€11.7 million) with a... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2022
AECOM has signed a strategic agreement with Genifuel Corporation to scale production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and biogas from wild algae and biosolids.
The partnership employs a patent-pending process developed by AECOM to harvest wild algae and a patented process developed by Genifuel and the US Department of Energy to convert algae and wastewater biosolids... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2022
A group of researchers from the Bioprocessing Separations Consortium have been developing separation processes and technology needed for the conversion of biomass to biofuel.
The researchers from six national laboratories are part of the team that was established in 2016 by DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
“There... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2022
Rolls-Royce has signed an agreement with Air bp that will reduce lifecycle carbon emissions for gas turbine tests carried out at three sites and support one of the organisation’s key sustainability commitments.
It ensures that all of the aviation fuel supplied for engine testing at Rolls-Royce facilities in Derby and Bristol, UK and Dahlewitz, Germany, will be a 10%... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2022
ICM and Agribrasil have signed an agreement to develop a greenfield dry-mill grain ethanol production facility near Canarana in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
The facility will utilise ICM’s proprietary process technologies, including Base Tricanter System™ (BTS™) for corn oil recovery, patented Selective Milling Technology™ (SMT™) for milling optimisation,... [Read More]
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Mar 21, 2022
DHL Express and Neste have announced a significant step towards decarbonising aviation logistics by expanding their existing cooperation with a new strategic collaboration.
In the next five years, Neste will supply DHL with approximately 320,000 tonnes (400 million litres) of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
The agreement is Neste’s largest for Sustainable Aviation... [Read More]
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Mar 21, 2022
one world Alliance and Gevo have announced that certain members plan to purchase up to 200 million gallons per year of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from the firm.
The delivery of the SAF is expected to commence in 2027, for a five-year term.
Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Japan Airlines and Qatar Airways expect to utilise Gevo’s SAF... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2022
Green Fuels is expanding its bioethanol facility in Zimbabwe.
The expansion in Chisumbanje will help to increase electricity generation and create job opportunities in Manicaland province.
The ethanol producer once put its expansion programme on hold in 2017 with insiders citing the economic environment as not favourable for the scale of investment.
The ethanol production... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2022
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor sent a letter to US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm calling on the department to address the most recent inaccurate and misleading study by Tyler Lark and others that claims to have been partially funded by the department.
The study directly contradicts conclusions from DoE’s own Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions,... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2022
The UK Government has awarded alfanar £2.4 million (€2.8 million) to develop its site in Tees Valley that will process household and commercial waste and turn it into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The funding from Department for Transport (DfT) will help the project, called Lighthouse Green Fuels (LGF), to start the “front-end engineering and design” (FEED)... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2022
British Airways will use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced on a commercial scale in the UK after signing a multi-year agreement with Phillips 66 Limited.
Thousands of tonnes of SAF will be produced for the first time in the UK at the Phillips 66 Humber Refinery, near Immingham, and will be supplied to British Airways to power a number of its flights from this year.
The... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2022
Aemetis announced that an offtake agreement with Qantas Group for 35 MMg of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be delivered over the seven-year term of the agreement.
The value of the contract including incentives is approximately $250 million (€227 million).
The blended SAF to be supplied under this agreement is 40% SAF and 60% Petroleum Jet A to meet international... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2022
Three Scottish companies have joined forces to accelerate the launch of new biofuel technology.
The companies are Ardnamurchan Distillery, Woodlands Renewables and Scotland’s first bio refinery, Celtic Renewables, based in Grangemnouth.
Celtic Renewables has already attracted £43million (€51 million) of investment and the new biorefinery will be able to produce... [Read More]
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Mar 14, 2022
TotalEnergies' Normandy platform has successfully started production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
This new site complements the biojet fuel production capacities of La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Oudalle plant (Seine-Maritime).
This move enables TotalEnergies to meet demand from its customers and respond to French legislation, which calls for... [Read More]