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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 Commercial Officer,…
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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 that the region’s…
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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 expected to meet the robust…
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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 to SAF…
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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 facilities, including a…
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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 takes over in…
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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 effect. Michel…
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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, and collaborative…
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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 to say that the ban makes…
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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 company is building a…
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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 "sustainability…
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EcoCeres has delivered its first vessel with 10 million litres of a sustainable blending component for jet fuel (neat HEFA-SPK) to the Evos Ghent terminal. This marks the start of a new relationship between Evos and EcoCeres. Evos Ghent is the first European storage partner for EcoCeres. Evos Ghent has a long history in the storage and handling of jet fuel. On January 1, 2023, the terminal…
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Whistl has launched a Fuel Carbon Calculator enabling its bulk mail customers to reduce their carbon footprint by opting to use Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) rather than diesel for the collection and trunking of their bulk mail. Through using the calculator customers can establish the number of litres of fuel used to transport their mail and then calculate what CO2 could be saved by using HVO…
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