Gevo and Scandinavian Airlines System have signed an amendment to increase its minimum purchase of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to 5,000,000 gallons per year. Gevo and SAS signed the original fuel sales agreement in October 2019. Gevo expects to supply SAS with SAF at the beginning of 2024 from Gevo’s Net-Zero 2 Project. The value of the deal is estimated at... [Read More]

The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it now backs the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling on small refinery exemptions (SREs). This conclusion, prompted by a detailed review by the Supreme Court, represented a change in EPA’s position. Representatives from the US biofuels industry welcomed the decision. Congress created the Renewable... [Read More]

Airbus, Bureau Veritas and PSA International have joined the Coalition for the Energy of the Future. Launched in late 2019, the Coalition aims to accelerate the development of future energies and technologies to sustain new green mobility models and reduce the impact of transport and logistics on climate change. This year the Coalition’s will be focusing on seven... [Read More]

The secretary general at ePURE has outlined the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead for the organisation in the next 12 months. Emmanuel Desplechin said if 2020 saw the EU setting ambitious new goals in the fight against climate change, this year would be the year in which policymakers figured out how to realise those goals. He continued: “It won’t be easy.... [Read More]

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, the company is driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry.... [Read More]

Agroforestry and research company Investancia has signed a 30-year offtake deal with ECB Group for 300,000 tonnes of ‘reforestation oil’ from the pongamia tree. The Investancia tree propagation and R&D centre, located near Carmelo Peralta, Alto Paraguay, is the world’s largest dedicated elite pongamia tree production site. Its current annual production capacity... [Read More]

Angel Alvarez Alberdi, the secretary general, EWABA, a leading biofuel industry figure discusses the opportunities and challenges for the year ahead. He said: "If there was ever a perfect regulatory storm for the biofuels sector, this is it. This year the industry at large will face different waves of entwined new laws of essential importance for the sector. "Take a... [Read More]

In a recent interview Biofuels International spoke with Whitefox’s CEO Gillian Harrison about what trends they experienced during COVID-19 and how the company saw this impacting the ethanol sector going forward. “One of the impressive things we have seen is how quickly some technologies have leapt forward more than five years in their natural evolution, in particular... [Read More]

A leading provider of low carbon biodiesel to the California market hosted a ribbon cutting event for its newly expanded facility in Barrio Logan. New Leaf Biofuel collects used cooking oil from more than 2,000 local area restaurants and converts it into biodiesel - an ecofriendly alternative to petroleum diesel. The new facility more than doubles the output of biofuel,... [Read More]

The US Grains Council conducted a virtual ethanol workshop to show North African stakeholders ethanol-blended fuel’s benefits in emissions reduction, environmental impacts and improving health outcomes. Representatives from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco took part in the event. Speakers focused on blending, handling and transportation and included Dr Steffen... [Read More]

Vopak is investing in the Port of Rotterdam for the storage of waste-based feedstocks for the production of biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel. The market for energy from renewable sources in Europe is rising as a result of the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive II. A total of 16 new tanks with a combined capacity of 64,000 cubic metres will be built... [Read More]

The rapeseed harvest in the EU-27 was slightly larger in 2020 than in 2019, according to information published by the EU Commission. It was pegged at 16.1 million tonnes, which translates to a rise of just less than 5% compared to 2019. According to investigations conducted by Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft, the increase was a result of harvest increases in Germany,... [Read More]

Heathrow has secured over £100 million (€115 million) in government funding as it aims to be one of the world’s first major carbon neutral aviation hubs. This news follows a commitment from the UK aviation industry to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 through working with governments around the world and through the UN. Heathrow will be rolling out an action... [Read More]

The Summit Agricultural Group has announced the creation of Summit Carbon Solutions - a new business platform that will address the global challenge of decarbonisation. This will be done by developing the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project. In doing so, Summit Carbon Solutions will dramatically lower the carbon footprint of biorefineries and other carbon... [Read More]

Agri-tech company Green Plains recorded a fourth quarter 2020 loss of $49.6 million (€40 million). CEO and president Todd Becker described the past year as “full of challenging events” as the COVID-19 pandemic hit petroleum prices and demand. Among the developments in the past 12 months included the sale of its ethanol plant in Hereford, Texas, for $39 million... [Read More]

Further research is under way to look into expanding E15 ethanol use in California. Tests will be carried out to determine what long-term use in California will bring and if west coast ethanol will be US corn-based or Brazilian sugarcane-based ethanol. Sugarcane-based ethanol has an advantage as it generates more carbon credits than corn-based ethanol under California’s... [Read More]