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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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Shell has set out its strategy to accelerate its transformation into a provider of net zero emissions energy products and services. The global oil company confirmed that its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 and oil production peaked in 2019. “Our accelerated strategy will drive down carbon emissions and will deliver value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society,” said…
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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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The US exported a total of 472,889.3 metric tonnes of biodiesel and biodiesel blends of B30 or greater last year. This figure was up from 384,894 metric tonnes in 2019, according to the latest figures released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Exports of biodiesel and blends of B30 or greater totalled 9,088.1 metric tonnes in December. This was a reduction from both 10,262.3 metric…
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A Liquid Gas UK (LGUK) report has outlined the route to decarbonising non-domestic off-grid businesses using bioLPG. The report found that LPG and bioLPG have the potential to replace one third of all the coal and oil currently used to heat non-domestic buildings as well as for industrial processing, saving 3.5million tones of CO2 - equivalent of taking over 240,000 cars off the road. George…
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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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