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May 28, 2021
Total becomes TotalEnergies in clean energy shift
Bioethanol News
May 28, 2021
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) has signed agreements with two leading Dutch freight forwarders – Best Global Logistics and Fast Forward Freight.
The agreement will see the two firms participate in AFKLMP’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) programme.
Best Global Logistics (BGL) has joined the AFKLMP SAF programme for its 2021 marine logistics shipments (ship... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 27, 2021
Rolls-Royce has officially opened Testbed 80 - the world’s largest and smartest indoor aerospace testing facility in the UK.
The completion of the project is a major milestone after almost three years of construction and a £90 million (€100 million) investment.
With an internal area of 7,500m2, making it larger than a Premiership football pitch, Testbed 80 was... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 27, 2021
Malaysia backs the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries’ (CPOC) move to submit an objection to Belgium, which is planning to ban the use of palm oil as a biofuel next year.
CPOPC has made its objection through a letter to Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. Malaysia is one of the founding members of CPOPC.
Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin said Belgium’s... [Read More]
Policy News
May 27, 2021
Five EU countries have demanded the European Commission establish a framework for stricter supervision of the use of biofuels in the bloc in the wake of a number of cases of fraud relating the sale of used cooking oil (UCO) of unsustainable origin as transport fuel.
EURACTIV reported that the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg issued a joint statement... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 26, 2021
Topsoe and Preem have successfully revamped the latter’s Gothenburg refinery.
This is the second revamp of the hydrotreater, following work in 2010 that upgraded the unit to co-process 30% renewable feedstock using Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology. The unit was one of the first in the world capable of processing renewable feedstock.
With the second revamp, Preem and... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 26, 2021
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) expects increases in rapeseed harvests for the most important rapeseed-producing countries this year.
According to an initial USDA assessment, the supply situation in the global rapeseed market will likely remain tense in the 2021/22 marketing year.
Rapeseed output is anticipated to increase 2.5% to 73.2 million tonnes. However,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 26, 2021
Shell Aviation and American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) have announced they will collaborate on an alliance for making sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) available.
The parties will design a model aimed at increasing the supply and use of SAF and accelerating the aviation industry’s pathway towards net-zero emissions (NZE).
This collaboration combines the buying... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 25, 2021
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has announced it will commit to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The airline that also runs Scoot and SIA Cargo, will invest in new-generation aircraft and adopt low-carbon technology such as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
SIA Group has pursued multiple projects in support of its sustainability goals even amid the COVID-19 pandemic.... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 25, 2021
Eurotank Amsterdam (ETA) is investing in the conversion of its gas oil tanks, making them suitable for storing biofuels, mixed biofuels and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).
This follows a successful pilot project by the storage company which is part of VTTI.
The project will allow for storage capacity of 75,000 cubic metres and the first phase will be commissioned... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 25, 2021
Growth Energy is highlighted the benefits of biofuels with a new campaign.
The US organisation has unveiled a new consumer initiative to raise awareness of biofuels’ positive environmental benefits and encourage consumers to choose higher biofuel blends like E15 at the pump.
Through a series of targeted digital content, advertising, and digital media, the Get Biofuel... [Read More]
Features
May 24, 2021
Civil aviation is at an inflection point. COVID-19 grounded global passenger air traffic just as new science revealed that aviation’s total global warming impact is more than double that of its CO2 emissions.
Airlines’ largest corporate customers are demanding a transformation to net zero climate impact, and they have learned to do business virtually and remotely,... [Read More]
Policy News
May 21, 2021
The Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) has welcomed the German Bundestag's decision to increase the greenhouse gas reduction obligation for fuels.
The law provides for an increase from 6% today to 7% in 2022 and to 25% in 2030.
UFOP has repeatedly called for a more ambitious GHG quota system.
The aim is to give domestic agriculture and the biofuel... [Read More]
Features
May 21, 2021
Until now, there have been no commercial drop-in solutions for replacing fossil petrol to reduce high amounts of greenhouse gas emissions from conventional petrol cars, without investing into new vehicles or modifying the old ones.
Neste, a producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) may be the first to have developed a renewable petrol for such commercial... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 21, 2021
British Airways is to power future flights with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) - part of a new partnership with sustainable jet fuel company LanzaJet.
The partnership will see British Airways invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia, US, and acquire cleaner burning SAF from the plant. It expects the fuel to be available to... [Read More]
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