Feb 15, 2023
New consortium to enable zero emission aviation to take off
Bioethanol News
Feb 15, 2023
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... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 14, 2023
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... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 14, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 14, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 13, 2023
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,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 13, 2023
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... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 13, 2023
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... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 10, 2023
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... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 10, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 10, 2023
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,... [Read More]
Features
Feb 9, 2023
Today’s aviation industry finds itself in a paradoxical position. On the one hand, it is a force for good, connecting people, places, economies, and cultures. It also plays a key role in shipping goods around the world (including vaccines during the recent global pandemic) and delivering humanitarian aid where and when it is needed most.
On the other hand, aviation... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 9, 2023
Velocys, the sustainable fuels technology company, has secured an agreement with Bechtel, one of the world’s most respected engineering companies.
The agreement sets out a route map for the parties to collaborate with each other with the objective of developing an EPC execution model for the company’s sustainable fuels projects.
This collaboration will initially... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 9, 2023
Stolthaven Dagenham has allocated land to Olleco to build a new facility that processes used cooking oil (UCO) collected from restaurants and food production sites.
The UCO will then be transferred to Stolthaven Dagenham's storage tanks before it is converted into renewable, low-carbon biodiesel fuel.
Stolthaven Dagenham is the closest storage terminal to central London... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 8, 2023
Brazil’s Foreign Trade Chamber has reinstated the 18% import tariff on ethanol resulting in US imports becoming less price competitive in the country.
The recent zero percent import tariff wasput in place last year by Brazil’s former president to help fight rising inflation. The current administration let the zero percent tariff expire on February 1.
The government... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Feb 8, 2023
Nippon Paper Industries, Sumitomo Corporation and Green Earth Institute have agreed to begin trilateral trials for the commercial production of cellulosic bioethanol.
Bioethanol is currently attracting attention in countries worldwide striving for carbon-neutral societies as a renewable energy source and as feedstock for biofuels such as SAF and chemicals with low environmental... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Feb 8, 2023
TotalEnergies Marine Fuels has completed its first refuelling of a Hapag-Lloyd container vessel in Singapore with used cooking oil methyl ester-based marine biofuel (UCOME).
This inaugural bunker operation marks the start of a term supply agreement between the two companies, which commits TotalEnergies to provide very low sulphur fuel oil blended with 24% second-generation,... [Read More]
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