May 28, 2021
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo welcomes Dutch partners to its SAF programme
Bioethanol News
May 28, 2021
New legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives, intended to drive the production and uptake of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The Sustainable Skies Act brought forward by Congressman Brad Schneider, along with Congressman Dan Kildee and Congresswoman Julia Brownley, establishes a $1.50 (€1.23) – $2 (€1.64 ) per gallon blender’s tax credit... [Read More]
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May 27, 2021
Rolls-Royce has officially opened Testbed 80 - the world’s largest and smartest indoor aerospace testing facility in the UK.
The completion of the project is a major milestone after almost three years of construction and a £90 million (€100 million) investment.
With an internal area of 7,500m2, making it larger than a Premiership football pitch, Testbed 80 was... [Read More]
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May 26, 2021
Shell Aviation and American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) have announced they will collaborate on an alliance for making sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) available.
The parties will design a model aimed at increasing the supply and use of SAF and accelerating the aviation industry’s pathway towards net-zero emissions (NZE).
This collaboration combines the buying... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 25, 2021
Growth Energy is highlighted the benefits of biofuels with a new campaign.
The US organisation has unveiled a new consumer initiative to raise awareness of biofuels’ positive environmental benefits and encourage consumers to choose higher biofuel blends like E15 at the pump.
Through a series of targeted digital content, advertising, and digital media, the Get Biofuel... [Read More]
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May 25, 2021
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has announced it will commit to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The airline that also runs Scoot and SIA Cargo, will invest in new-generation aircraft and adopt low-carbon technology such as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
SIA Group has pursued multiple projects in support of its sustainability goals even amid the COVID-19 pandemic.... [Read More]
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May 21, 2021
British Airways is to power future flights with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) - part of a new partnership with sustainable jet fuel company LanzaJet.
The partnership will see British Airways invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia, US, and acquire cleaner burning SAF from the plant. It expects the fuel to be available to... [Read More]
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May 20, 2021
Essar hosted a visit to Stanlow Refinery by Andrew Stephenson – the UK Minister of State at the Department for Transport.
The Minister met senior company representatives and discussed plans to create a new facility to convert non-recyclable household waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for use by airlines operating at UK airports.
The project involves Essar... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 20, 2021
Vivergo Fuels site in Hull will be re-opening following an announcement by the Department for Transport that E10 petrol will be introduced at pumps across the UK from September.
Established in 2012, the site was the only dedicated bioethanol plant in the UK and represented the second largest infrastructure project after the Olympics. However, in September 2018 the decision... [Read More]
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May 19, 2021
Air France-KLM, Total, Groupe ADP and Airbus have joined forces to carry out the first long-haul flight powered by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) produced in France.
Air France flight 342 took off from Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport's Terminal 2E for Montreal with its tanks filled for the first time with SAF produced in Total's French plants.
The biofuel used for... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 19, 2021
CropEnergies generated revenues of €833 million in the 2020/21 financial year and an operating profit of €107 million, despite the challenging market environment.
This compared with revenues of €899 million and an operating profit of €104 million in the previous 12 months.
Despite the extended maintenance shutdown in Wanze at the beginning of the 2020/21 financial... [Read More]
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May 18, 2021
London Oxford Airport has embarked on a major infrastructure development project that will include a new fuel farm that will quadruple the storage capacity of the original facility.
This will also provide future storage space for sustainable aviation fuel.
A centrally located fire station is under construction as well, while the centerpiece will be the airport's 15th... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 17, 2021
Lakeview Energy which owns Three Rivers Energy said the biorefinery was set to reopen later this summer.
Three Rivers Energy started as the Coshocton ethanol plant in 2008, but it shutdown after 10 months.
CE Acquisitions, a partnership of Lakeview Energy and Crestwood Energy of Illinois, acquired the biofuels refinery in 2013.
It previously produced ethanol, distillers... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 17, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is awarding $35 million (€29 million) to 15 research projects through the Energy and Carbon Optimised Synthesis for the Bioeconomy (ECOSynBio) programme to decarbonise biorefining processes across the transportation and agriculture sectors.
Many biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel and other products derived from organic material... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 17, 2021
Fuel retailers in Brazil have asked the government to reduce the amount of ethanol required to be blended into petrol.
They argue that a smaller production in the current season has reduced the biofuel’s supply and increased prices.
Fecombustiveis, an association representing around 40,000 petrol stations in Brazil, asked for the ethanol blend to be reduced from 27%... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 14, 2021
Estimates show that as many as 600,000 cars on UK’s roads will not be compatible with E10.
According to the RAC, vehicles like the 2-2 litre direct petrol injection engines in the Vectra, Signum and Zafira will not be able to use E10 efficiently.
Current petrol grades in the UK contain 5% bioethanol and this will increase to 10% from September.
The motoring organisation... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 14, 2021
POET, the largest biofuels producer in the US, is in discussions with Flint Hills Resources to acquire the entirety of its ethanol assets.
A spokesman for POET said the deal will increase capacity for ethanol by more than a third to 3 billion gallons per year.
That could help the company tap into potential growth in the biofuels market as the Biden administration considers... [Read More]
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