
Sep 9, 2024
Bioethanol refineries produced more food than fuel, ePURE reveals
Biodiesel News
Sep 6, 2024
Cepsa has undertaken its first direct supply of second-generation biofuels for the cruise industry at the Port of Barcelona.
Further supplies have been confirmed for the coming months, with biofuels available on a regular basis from the Ports of Barcelona and Algeciras.
The supplied fuel contains a 24% sustainable component, which will prevent the emission of approximately... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 6, 2024
Iberia Maintenance will use 5% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in its engine test bench at the La Muñoza facilities, near the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport.
The use of this type of fuel will allow for a reduction of 115 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
Iberia Maintenance thus becomes the first Spanish aeronautical maintenance provider to use continuously this... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 5, 2024
Formula 1 has announced a multi-year partnership with Aggreko to deliver innovative low-carbon energy generation systems at all European Grands Prix from the 2025 season. As part of the deal, Aggreko will become an official provider of F1.
Aggreko and Formula 1 have been working on this system together since 2023 when they first piloted a centralised power generation... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 5, 2024
LanzaTech and Lanzajet have announced a new project with Australia’s Wagner Sustainable Fuels to evaluate equipping Wagner’s Brisbane SAF Refinery with the CirculAir™ platform.
The CirculAir platform is LanzaTech and LanzaJet’s joint technology solution that converts waste carbon and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
In addition to securing... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 4, 2024
Avflight Mesa, in partnership with leading aviation fuel supplier, Avfuel Corporation, has announced it now offers an emission-reducing fuel option - sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The first truckload of SAF arrived on August 28.
Located at Arizona’s Falcon Field, Avflight Mesa is the first of Avflight’s 26 locations to offer SAF.
It also marks Avfuel’s 30th... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 4, 2024
Nova Pangaea Technologies has welcomed Jonathan Wood as Chief Commercial Officer.
Wood has extensive c-suite level experience in renewable fuels and the energy industry.
He has a track record of developing and transforming international businesses, acquisitions, and investments in assets and new technologies.
Prior to joining Nova Pangaea Technologies as Chief... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 3, 2024
Southeast Asia’s feedstocks can supply approximately 12% of global sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) demand to meet the commercial aviation industry’s net-zero goal by 2050, according to a report developed by Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) and supported by Boeing.
The sustainable feedstock assessment, encompassing 11 countries across Southeast Asia, found... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Sep 3, 2024
Gevo has announced a purchase agreement for its low-carbon intensity fuel blendstock with Shell Global Solutions Deutschland for use in motorsports. Gevo’s renewable blendstock is suitable for premium motorsport fuels, demonstrating that sustainability and peak performance belong together.
Beginning with performance, Gevo’s low-carbon intensity fuel blendstock is... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 2, 2024
A business aviation coalition has called on the Biden administration to follow the approach the government uses for existing biofuel programmes when it develops rules to quantify and verify greenhouse gas emissions from various feedstocks for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Those rules will determine the level of Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives available... [Read More]
Features
Sep 2, 2024
The corn-based ethanol industry is about to get a much-needed boost. New breakthroughs in corn dry fractionation are going to provide a tremendous boost to yields and the bottom line.
Cereal Process Technologies (CPT) uses dry fractionation technology prior to the ethanol process to separate components without liquids.
The technology is operational in four commercial... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 30, 2024
Enerkem recently announce the appointment of Michel Chornet as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Dominique Boies in this role.
This announcement follows a series of important changes to prepare for the next phase of the company’s growth.
Michel Chornet, already an integral part of Enerkem’s leadership team for many years, assumes the role of CEO with immediate... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 30, 2024
Indonesia president-elect Prabowo Subianto is aiming to implement mandatory 50% palm oil-based biodiesel blending by early 2025, which he said would cut fuel imports by $20 billion (€17.9 billion) per year.
Indonesia said it planned to raise the blending to 40% in January 2025, from 35% now, in an effort to reduce fuel imports and lower emission from fossil fuels.
Prabowo... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 29, 2024
Alleima has been awarded with a gold medal by EcoVadis - a leading provider of corporate sustainability ratings.
This prestigious recognition of sustainable business practices places Alleima in the top 5% among the more than 130,000 companies assessed worldwide.
EcoVadis is one of the world’s most trusted providers of business sustainability ratings, intelligence,... [Read More]
Features
Aug 29, 2024
Following the European elections, several high-profile MEPs and politicians have publicly stated that renewable fuels like biofuels will have a major role to play in reducing road GHG emissions in the coming decades, arguing against the ban on the sale of new petrol or diesel cars in the EU from 2035 onwards.
The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the most recent... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 28, 2024
bp has invested €44.4 million in Zhejiang Jiaao Enprotech’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) unit - marking the first alliance in China’s emerging green aviation fuel sector.
The investment grants BP a 15% stake in Lianyungang Jiaao Enproenergy Co, a subsidiary of Jiaao, focused on the development of a major SAF plant in the eastern coastal city of Lianyungang.
The... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 28, 2024
Growth Energy, the nation's largest biofuel trade association, submitted new comments to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) criticising the board's latest updates to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for unfairly singling out American biofuels in a way that will make it hard for them to generate credits.
Specifically, Growth Energy objected to a proposed... [Read More]