Bioethanol News

The German Bioethanol Industry Association (BDBe) has criticised the Federal Minister’s claim that food and fuel are in competition with one another. The Federal Minister of Food an Agriculture , Cem Özdemir, has led calls to abandon biofuels from cultivated biomass. “Since the animal feed grain used for domestic bioethanol production is not qualitatively suitable for human consumption,…
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Repsol and ASAJA, the largest professional agricultural organisation in Spain that represents more than 200,000 farmers, have signed a collaboration agreement to promote projects that focus on the circular economy. Repsol will analyse the potential of waste and by-products as new raw materials for the manufacture of renewable fuels and circular materials in its industrial complexes. The company…
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US ethanol exports declined 3% to a three-month low of 81.4 million gallons (mg) - about 40% less than the volume shipped a year ago, according to the Renewable Fuels Association. All exported US ethanol landed in just 10 countries in November. Canada secured its place as the US’s top customer for the 20th consecutive month as shipments to Canada increased 8% to 47.9 mg—an unprecedented…
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Gulfstream Aerospace took to the skies in one of its jets powered by 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The flight took place on a Gulfstream G650 from its headquarters in Savannah. “At Gulfstream, leading our industry closer to decarbonisation is a long-standing priority, and testing, evaluating and promoting new developments in SAF takes us another step closer to that goal,” said Mark…
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its Renewables 2022 Analysis at the end of last year. Renewables 2022 included analysis on the renewable energy sector, including developments and trends for transportation, including increasingly ambitious energy targets in the European Union (EU), growth in ethanol consumption in Brazil, biofuel blending in India and global feedstock…
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Liege Airport is the first Belgian airport to distribute sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to its airline customers. The Belgian airport announced that its aviation fuel installations, as well as its fuelling staff are ready to receive, store and distribute SAF. Throughout the last few months, its fuel storage facilities have been audited and the fuel receipt, storage…
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Brussels Airlines has started the new year by receiving a delivery of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel using the NATO Central European Pipeline System (CEPS). The SAF is supplied by CEPS to commercial airports in Europe and these airports can also receive SAF via the pipeline system. The flag carrier of Belgium which is part of the Lufthansa Group has ambitious sustainability goals including…
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Plans for the world’s first commercial-scale factory to transform waste gases into sustainable jet fuel (SAF) have moved a step closer today. LanzaTech UK has announced that its DRAGON facility project has received a £25 miilion (€31 miilion) grant from the UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund Competition. Project DRAGON, which stands for Decarbonising…
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The UK Government has confirmed the results of the Advanced Fuels Fund competition where Velocys has been awarded £29.5 million (€33.6 million). Velocys, the sustainable fuels technology company, announced on 12 December that it had received the grant of from the Department for Transport (DfT) Advanced Fuels Fund competition for the Altalto Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) project. This is…
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Rolls-Royce has finished building its UltraFan demonstrator engine that will help improve aircraft fuel efficiency by up to 10% while running on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The motor boasts a 12ft (fan system, the largest in the world, and it has now been moved from the workshop and into Testbed 80 - a £90 million (€102 million) facility in Derby, UK. The British company now hopes to…
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Demand for renewable ethanol in the EU will increase by 13% from now until 2030, according to a new report from the European Commission. The EU Agricultural Outlook for Markets, Income and Environment 2022-2032, published by the Commission’s DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, forecasts that demand for renewable ethanol will increase to 7.7 billion litres per year in 2030 before…
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The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and its partners from across the port community are testing various low- and zero-emission fuels and technologies. This is part of the port authority’s efforts to phase out all port-related emissions by 2050 in support of the Government of Canada’s goal to achieve net-zero emissions.  Through the Low-Emission Technology Initiative, a joint initiative…
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