Bioethanol News

The Iowa state legislature introduced new legislation to move the US state to overall higher biofuel blends. This includes offering E15 statewide by 2025 and updating the E15 promotion tax credit to $0.03 per gallon year-round. It is estimated that over the first five years, the legislation would increase ethanol demand by over 117 million gallons. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor welcomed the…
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A new facility that will convert non-recyclable household waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for use by airlines operating at UK airports is to be built. Essar Oil is joining forces with Fulcrum BioEnergy and Essar’s subsidiary company Stanlow Terminals Limited in the project. Plans for Fulcrum NorthPoint are expected to be complete at the end of this year and subject to planning…
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Repsol has successfully produced the first batch of biofuel for aviation at its industrial complex in Tarragona in Spain. Production of this biojet fuel took place at the Repsol Industrial Complex and more batches of biofuel for aviation will be manufactured at the group’s other industrial complexes in Spain. The batch manufactured consists of 10,000 tonnes of aviation fuel — equivalent…
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Europe’s aviation sector has unveiled its new sustainability initiative Destination 2050 – A Route to Net Zero European Aviation. The new plan provides a vision and path for meaningful CO2 emission reduction efforts in Europe and globally. According to the report, there is an opportunity to reach net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 through a combination of four key measures, aligning European…
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Growth Energy has welcomed the introduction of legislation to fast-track infrastructure investments designed to open new markets for higher ethanol blends like E15. The Renewable Fuel Infrastructure Investment and Market Expansion Act would authorise $500 million (€411 million) over five years for infrastructure grants, building on successful programmes like the US Department of…
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Finnish company Fintoil plans to build a €100 million biorefinery in Hamina. The plant has recently been granted environmental and construction permits, with construction work starting this month. This will lead to the erection of the world’s third largest crude tall oil (CTO) refinery. Fintoil is due to start its commercial operations in the summer of next year. The plant will refine a…
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Neste’s renewable products helped customers in several geographic markets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 million tonnes. The company said the method used to calculate emission reduction complied with the EU Renewable Energy Directive. This amount equalled the annual carbon footprint of 1.5 million average EU citizens, or the removal of 3.7 million passenger cars from the roads for…
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released the latest information regarding ethanol exports for the last 12 months. The USDA revealed that 1.334 billion gallons were exported in 2020 - down 9.8% from 2019 and hovering around 2017 levels. Canada took over as the top export market for US ethanol, with 326.4 million gallons (mg) for the year. The country continues to be a global…
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British Airways (BA) has revealed it will operate transatlantic flights partially powered by sustainable fuels as early as next year. BA is investing in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology provider and SAF producer LanzaJet as the company builds its first commercial scale plant in Georgia, US. BA will purchase SAF from LanzaJet’s US plant to power a number of the airline’s flights…
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Biofuels firm Raízen has signed a commercial agreement to incorporate the assets of Biosev - a Brazilian subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Holding. The deal includes nine production units strategically located in Brazil with a total installed sugarcane processing capacity of up to 32 million tonnes. The agreement also includes power cogeneration, with an export capacity of up to 1.3 GWh of…
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Velocys has signed an agreement with Toyo Engineering Corporation to start the development of their commercial projects to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and other renewable fuels in Japan. The agreement follows on from the successful work already conducted last year between the two at the biomass-to-jet-fuel demonstration facility in Japan. This included the provision of technical…
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The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Act legislation to incentivise the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and help the aviation sector reduce carbon emissions has been introduced in the US. The bill would create a new blender’s tax credit for SAF, linked to carbon reductions, as well as an Investment Tax Credit to help finance new SAF facilities and infrastructure. It would also…
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Neste’s renewable products helped customers in several geographic markets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 million tonnes altogether last year. According to the company, this amounted to the annual carbon footprint of 1.5 million average EU citizens or the removal of 3.7 million passenger cars from the roads for a full year. “We are committed to help customers reduce greenhouse gas…
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A new report published by the Environmental Research Letters found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than petroleum - up from 39% done by previous modelling. The report, led by David MacIntosh, Chief Science Officer of Environmental Health & Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, and consulted by…
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