Aemetis announced that an offtake agreement with Qantas Group for 35 MMg of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be delivered over the seven-year term of the agreement. The value of the contract including incentives is approximately $250 million (€227 million). The blended SAF to be supplied under this agreement is 40% SAF and 60% Petroleum Jet A to meet international... [Read More]

Carnarvon Energy Limited has announce its renewable diesel business as FutureEnergy Australia (FEA). This is a 50:50 joint venture arrangement with Frontier Impact Group. Carnarvon announced last year it would invest in seed capital towards an initial renewable diesel project which was the first step in an overall strategy to actively reduce the carbon intensity of its... [Read More]

The new biodiesel plant built by Austrian process engineering company BDI-BioEnergy International and operated by Rossi Biofuel will make an important contribution to sustainable circular economy in Hungary. For Rossi Biofuel, building the new plant is a commitment to sustainable innovation and profitability and will result in 150,000t annual CO2 savings. Rossi is a... [Read More]

Three Scottish companies have joined forces to accelerate the launch of new biofuel technology. The companies are Ardnamurchan Distillery, Woodlands Renewables and Scotland’s first bio refinery, Celtic Renewables, based in Grangemnouth. Celtic Renewables has already attracted £43million (€51 million) of investment and the new biorefinery will be able to produce... [Read More]

Leonidas Kanonis, director for communications and analysis at the European Waste-based and Advanced Association (EWABA), highlights why he finds the policy side of this energy sector so fascinating  What was your first job? My first experience was when I was a teenager in Athens, Greece, following around my father who was a civil engineer and was often visiting construction... [Read More]

TotalEnergies' Normandy platform has successfully started production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). This new site complements the biojet fuel production capacities of La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Oudalle plant (Seine-Maritime). This move enables TotalEnergies to meet demand from its customers and respond to French legislation, which calls for... [Read More]

EWABA has welcomed the adoption of more stringent standards for EU certification schemes as part of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) implementation. The organisation said it was confident that the implementation act on revised standards would strengthen and further enhance transparency in the biofuels sector by providing full traceability across the supply... [Read More]

Growth Energy submitted new comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) further supporting EPA’s proposal to deny 65 pending small refinery exemptions (SREs). In its supplemental submission, Growth Energy reinforced the EPA’s analysis of the economics of RFS compliance and supported the agency’s standard for showing disproportionate economic hardship... [Read More]

Verde Bio Holdings has announced that it has terminated an agreement to purchase two biodiesel facilities, which the company first announced in December 2021. The Texas-based company has been engaged in the acquisition and development of revenue producing assets in premier US basins. Verde currently owns producing mineral, royalty and over-riding royalty interests in... [Read More]

A new biofuel plant built by Rossi Biofuel and MOL Group has started operations in Hungary. Work on the €45 million brownfield plant facility began in June 2020 and the plant in Komárom will significantly increase the biofuel production volume in the country. The advanced biodiesel plant will raise the company’s annual production capacity to 50,000 tonnes per year. The... [Read More]

The Net Zero Technology Centre has announced the launch of its 2022 Open Innovation Programme aimed at developing and deploying technologies that will reduce emissions, accelerate clean energy production and enable delivery of the UK’s net zero ambitions. The 2022 programme will feature two funding competitions - the first opening on 16th March and the second scheduled... [Read More]

Korean Air will use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on its route between Paris and Seoul Incheon. The airline said this would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80%. This is a first step towards “greener” aviation for Korean Air, which is adopting SAF on its Paris Charles de Gaulle – Seoul Incheon route. The South Korean company wants to reduce its greenhouse... [Read More]

The shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon fuels is accelerating at such a pace that even global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic cannot slow it down. Dozens of low-carbon fuel projects have been announced, aiming at decarbonising transport such as road vehicles, aircraft and ships. In a previous article for Biofuels International, experts covered our view on the... [Read More]

The European Commission’s RePowerEU proposal to boost EU energy security is an important step to reducing dependence on imported crude oil and ensuring stable domestic production of fuel and food, while continuing the drive to carbon-neutrality. As a proven, domestically sourced technology for reducing emissions from road transport – renewable ethanol from ePURE members... [Read More]

Sulzer Chemtech will provide a BioFlux® technology package to support the creation of the Sabah Maju Jaya Renewable Energy Industrial Complex (SMJREIC) in Malaysia. This new facility will produce sustainable fuels with limited greenhouse gases emissions by using locally-sourced, renewable feedstock. By leveraging Sulzer Chemtech’s leading expertise in innovative... [Read More]

Union Pacific Railroad will begin using a higher biodiesel blend in locomotives it acquired from Wabtec. The new collaboration helps Union Pacific as it works to increase the percentage of low-carbon fuels consumed to 10% of its total diesel consumption by 2025 and 20% by 2030. "Increasing the use of renewable diesels and biofuels currently represents the most promising... [Read More]