Information published by the German Federal Statistical Office revealed the area of land devoted to growing field beans for this year’s harvest amounted to 56,500 hectares. This translated to a 15% increase year-on-year and sets a new record as the field bean area has more than tripled over the past 10 years. The largest area is found in North Rhine-Westphalia, as... [Read More]

Velocys, the sustainable fuels technology company, has raised £20 million (€22 million) following the issuing of new shares. The company revealed in May that planning permission has been given to Altalto Immingham - the UK’s first commercial waste-to-jet-fuel plant. North East Lincolnshire Council has given the green light to the sustainable fuels technology company... [Read More]

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor submitted comments to the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hearing on the Growing Climate Solutions Act. The new act aims to accelerate innovations in climate-friendly farming. “With many states and localities increasingly exploring public policy options to lower carbon emissions, the use of biofuels can immediately... [Read More]

Production and use of renewable ethanol from ePURE members delivered an average of more than 72% greenhouse gas savings compared to fossil fuels in 2019, according new data. This record-high average performance continues an eight-year trend of annual improvements to the climate-change-fighting potential of EU ethanol. “Every year, renewable ethanol increases its greenhouse-gas... [Read More]

Clariant is making good progress in building a new commercial-scale plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues based on its sunliquid technology. Paolo Corvo, Clariant’s head of sales and marketing, business line biofuels and derivatives, gave an update on the project during a webinar on how Europe can develop a market for advanced renewable... [Read More]

Neste, McDonald’s Netherlands and HAVI have joined forces to create a circular economic partnership. The collaboration will see McDonald’s restaurants in the Netherlands recycling the used cooking oil from french fries into Neste MY Renewable Diesel. The fuel will be used in HAVI trucks that deliver goods to McDonald’s. The renewable diesel enables customers... [Read More]

A group of engineers and researchers were able to achieve the chemical storage of wind power into a liquid for the first time. BSE Engineering and the Institute for Regenerative Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have successfully demonstrated this conversion of wind power to methanol after the plant operation was launched for converting... [Read More]

Georgia-based Attis Industries plans to invest up to €80 million (£72 million) in a new biofuels factory in northern Serbia. The Kula city government has said the new plant could be operational in two years after the green light for the project was given. Vanessa Bageto, a representative of Attis Industries, signed a memorandum of understanding with the city government... [Read More]

The EU’s transition to climate-neutrality will require every sustainable emissions-reduction tool we have. Renewable ethanol – produced sustainably from crops and agricultural wastes and residues – is a decarbonisation solution that is already making a positive impact in the climate fight. Renewable ethanol production opens new markets for Europe’s farmers and... [Read More]

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is reminding pesticide applicators of the restriction for the use of the herbicide dicamba on dicamba-tolerant soybeans for this year’s growing season. The product cannot be applied in Minnesota after June 20. The Minnesota restriction is in addition to those established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).... [Read More]

Brazilian ethanol stocks added 4.63 billion litres at the end of May, the latest information released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock showed. The volume was the record high for any end of May since S&P Global Platts started to track this data back in 2010. In the producing region of Central-South Brazil the total ethanol stocks were at 4.46 billion litres,... [Read More]

COVID-19 has affected many companies in the ethanol industry around the world as production has been hit by the drop in demand. However, this is not the case for Bulgarian company Essentica, which is the largest and one of the most high-tech companies in Southeastern Europe concerned with the production of bioethanol. Since the beginning of the crisis, the company has... [Read More]

Neste has launched a new research project which aims to develop sustainable and globally scalable raw materials and technology solutions for transportation fuels and the production of chemicals and polymers. These new solutions will decrease the use of crude oil and tackle climate change and the new technologies will be based on scalable renewable and circular raw materials... [Read More]

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor has thanked two US senators for introducing legislation to reduce Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delays in the approval of applications to produce advanced biofuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). “We applaud Senators John Thune and Jeanne Shaheen for working on a bipartisan basis to break the regulatory logjam holding back... [Read More]