Dec 12, 2022
£27m award for Altalto Immingham SAF project
Bioethanol News
Dec 12, 2022
Clariant has announced a financial impairment of its sunliquid® plant in Podari, Romania, amounting to about CHF 225 million (€228 million).
As previously reported, the sunliquid® plant began production in the second quarter of this, though it has not yet achieved the targeted yields and other operational parameters on an industrial scale.
Clariant has completed... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 12, 2022
Bertschi Group has doubled its terminal capacity at the ValuePark Terneuzen while all the on-site terminal machines will be fuelled by hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) or biodiesel.
The Swiss chemical logistics company’s switch to biofuels for these machines saves 90% of emissions per litre and is equivalent to a CO2 savings of several hundred tons per year.
The expansion... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 9, 2022
This year’s harvest of sunflower seed came in considerably lower than 2021 due to extreme dry weather conditions within the EU-27.
It was also short of the long-term average.
According to the latest EU Commission's estimate, 9.3 million tonnes of sunflower seed were harvested in the European Union in 2022.
This was around 10% less than in 2021. In other words, both... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 9, 2022
GoodFuels has delivered 140 mt of 100% biofuel to AIDAprima and enhanced its partnership with Carnival Corporation’s AIDA Cruises brand.
The Hyperion-class cruise ship was refuelled with GoodFuels’ sustainable biofuels during its 8 December port call to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
This first bunkering of 100% biofuels for AIDAprima marks another important step... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 9, 2022
Ground handling vehicles operating at Schiphol will refuel using renewable HVO100 fuel resulting in a 98% reduction in CO2 emissions.
The renewable diesel will be used as an intermediate solution until all vehicles run on electricity or hydrogen and are emission free. Parties in the aviation sector continue to work on reaching that goal by 2030.
Neste will be the supplier... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 8, 2022
The European Commission has asked to hear views on the long-awaited update of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) Annex IX.
This draft act is open for feedback for four weeks until January 2.
This feedback will then be taken into account for finalising this initiative. The Commission added that the feedback received will also be published on its website and must... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 8, 2022
CropEnergies is set to build a plant for the production of renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol.
The plant will be built in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park, Elsteraue, Germany.
The supervisory board of CropEnergies has given the green light to the investment into what will be the first production plant in the new biobased chemicals business.
The total... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 8, 2022
Global Bioenergies has delivered a 200-litre batch of sustainable aviation fuel for tests commissioned as part of the GENOPTAIRE project funded by the French government defence procurement and technology agency (DGA).
The project, which forms part of the ministry’s defence energy strategy, seeks to promote technological advances in the design and use of military platforms... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 7, 2022
Virgin Atlantic will purchase 10 million gallons per annum of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced by Gevo.
The fuel will be supplied by Virgin Atlantic’s joint venture partner, Delta Air Lines. The agreement with Delta builds on the existing long-term partnership between Delta and Gevo and increases the use of SAF from the US West Coast.
SAF produced by Gevo will... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 7, 2022
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production will reach at least 300 million litres by the end of the year — a 200% increase on last year’s production of 100 million litres.
More optimistic calculations estimate total production in 2022 could reach 450 million litres. Both scenarios position the SAF industry... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 7, 2022
Biodiesel, renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producers are headed for a feedstock supply crunch during 2022-2027 if current trends do not change, the International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed.
In its main case, demand for vegetable oil, waste and residue oils and fats increases 56% to 79 million tonnes over the forecast period.
Fuels made from wastes... [Read More]
Features
Dec 6, 2022
This is rapidly developing into a decade of uncertainty with the global recovery from COVID-19 now being joined by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The severe physical costs of the pandemic, coupled with the horrific aggression of the Kremlin’s war on its neighbour, have inevitably thrown the world into a human, economic and industrial crisis which shows no early sign... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 6, 2022
MEPs have reached a preliminary deal with EU governments on a new law on deforestation-free products.
This will make it obligatory for companies to verify and issue a so-called “due diligence” statement that goods placed on the EU market have not led to deforestation and forest degradation anywhere in the world after 31 December 2020.
According to the agreed text,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 6, 2022
JetBlue and Fidelis New Energy announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide the airline with at least 92 million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
This will be delivered from Fidelis’ Grön Fuels GigaSystem™ at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge in Louisiana, US. This SAF is expected to be delivered over the five-year term with a targeted... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Dec 5, 2022
TotalEnergies and Air France-KLM have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the delivery of more than 1 million cubic metres or 800,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) over the 10-year period.
The SAF will be produced by TotalEnergies at its biorefineries and will be made available to Air France-KLM Group’s airlines for flights departing from France... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Dec 5, 2022
The U.S. Canola Association (USCA) has welcomed the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ruling that canola oil-derived renewable diesel now qualifies as advanced biofuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) programme.
This is good news for canola growers, renewable fuel producers, consumers, and the environment.
“The EPA’s approval of these new pathways... [Read More]
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