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Clean Fuels Alliance America has filed formal comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Renewable Fuel Standards for 2023–2025. After sending signals supporting growth for biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels in June 2022, EPA reverted to the pattern of flatlined volumes common in previous years. Clean Fuels has asked the agency to significantly increase the volumes…
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Shell Oil subsidiary Equilon Enterprises and agricultural company S&W Seed are developing plant genetics for oil seed cover crops as feedstocks for biofuel production. The JV company, named Vision Bioenergy Oilseeds, will be jointly owned and aims to develop camelina and other oilseed species from which oil and meal can be extracted for future processing into animal feed, biofuels and other…
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Carlos Rodríguez Gaya, head of product management and technical service, purification EMEA, outlines the year ahead for the company. Over the past year multiple new investment projects to produce hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) and/or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) were announced. The main driver associated with this wave of investments are legislative proposals of the EU Fit for 55 package…
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Six international businesses have launched a new consortium to bring zero-emission aviation to life in New Zealand. The Hydrogen Consortium’s vision is to support the country to pioneer the commercial deployment of green hydrogen-powered aircraft. The partners are international aerospace leader Airbus, global green energy company Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), leading world airline Air…
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Indian Oil Corporation has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with LanzaJet to explore the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in India. This partnership will strengthen India’s transition to cleaner fuels and help achieve the country’s carbon reduction goal. The agreement was signed by Santanu Gupta, executive director and Jimmy Samartzis, CEO LanzaJet…
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Jersey's government has switched more than 37% of its vehicles to run on vegetable oil-based fuel to reduce its carbon emissions. A total of 252 government cars have been running on second generation biodiesel with the move beginning in May 2022. It said the switch, alongside the use of electric vehicles, had removed 500 tonnes of CO2 emissions between May and November 2022. Minister for…
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France’s Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) has carried out the first test flight of an NH90 helicopter with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). During the flight on February 3 from the DGA test centre at Essais en vol in Istres, one of the helicopter’s two RTM322 engines was run on 100% SAF. The flight was made without any engine modification and the fuel was previously validated…
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Neste enabled its customers to reduce their GHG emissions globally by 11.1 million tons last year. This amount equals the annual carbon footprint of 1.8 million average EU citizens or the removal of four million passenger cars from the roads for a full year. “We are on track towards reaching our commitment of helping our customers to reduce their GHG emissions by at least 20 million tons of…
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UK biofuel supplier Green Biofuels (GBF) has launched Ireland’s first renewable biofuel terminal in a built facility in Cork Harbour. The facility took its first cargo delivery on 11 January. Through its Irish business Green D Project Limited, the new terminal is a major commitment by GBF to Ireland’s cleaner energy infrastructure for transport and generator power, further accelerating the…
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ExxonMobil’s majority-owned affiliate Imperial Oil will invest about $560 million (€524 million) in the construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in Canada. The project at Imperial’s Strathcona refinery is expected to produce 20,000 barrels of renewable diesel per day primarily from locally sourced feedstocks and could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Canadian…
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The US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded $118 million (€110 million) in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels for America’s transportation and manufacturing needs. The selected projects, located at universities and private companies, will drive the domestic production of biofuels and bioproducts. Funding for this opportunity supports President…
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EWABA has welcomed the newly established Union Database for Biofuels (UDB) which has been open for economic operators’ registration since mid-January. In a year of major regulatory developments with the expected conclusion of important legislative procedures within the fit for 55 package, the introduction of the UDB as a key part of the regulatory framework underpinned by the Renewable Energy…
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Neste and Scania are piloting a digital solution that enables easy follow-up and verification of each truck's usage of renewable fuels. Combining data from Scania Fleet Management Portal enriched with Neste's fuel emission data, the solution provides Scania’s fleet management customers with accurate, up-to-date data for their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reporting and sustainability…
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PRIO has announced a new partnership in which it supplied B30 marine biofuel to Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in collaboration with World Fuel Services. This new fuel, ECO Bunkers B30, is a 30% blend of advanced biofuel from waste feedstocks, produced at PRIO's biodiesel plant and blended at PRIO's tank terminal in Aveiro. With the support of World Fuel Services, two Norwegian Cruise Line…
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