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Jun 22, 2020
Fuelling Europe’s future – A vision for how renewable ethanol can help drive the EU Green Deal
Biodiesel News
Jun 22, 2020
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]
Bioethanol News
Jun 19, 2020
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]
Features
Jun 19, 2020
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]
Policy News
Jun 18, 2020
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]
Biodiesel News
Jun 18, 2020
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]
Bioethanol News
Jun 17, 2020
Soybean production in the EU-27 more than doubled over the past 10 years, according to new figures published by the EU Commission.
The area planted with soybeans in 2020 is reported to amount to almost 1 million hectares. This is up around 11% year-on-year.
Italy, with a soybean area of presumably 306,000 hectares and a 12% increase in area, is likely to remain by... [Read More]
Features
Jun 17, 2020
The EU’s new Farm to Fork Strategy aims to build a more sustainable European agriculture and food system.
Importantly, it highlights the potential for a truly circular, bio-based economy in which advanced biorefineries produce bioenergy, protein feed for animals, sustainable fertilisers and bio-chemicals in “the transition to a climate-neutral European economy and... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 16, 2020
The Renewable Fuels Association has called on President Trump to reject attempts to grant the oil industry more waivers from renewable fuel obligations.
The letter coincided with the President’s anniversary visit at an Iowa ethanol plant last year.
“One year ago today, you visited Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy in Council Bluffs to join us in celebrating a monumental... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 16, 2020
Posti will begin to use renewable Neste MY diesel in its light delivery fleet in line with its continued efforts to develop its emission-free e-commerce logistics.
The volume of parcels delivered by Posti has increased sharply in the last few years, with millions of parcels delivered every week this spring. Posti’s own fleet covers roughly 40% of the parcel deliveries... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 15, 2020
US ethanol producer Flint Hills Resources will not resume production at its 120 million gallon a year ethanol plant in Camilla, Georgia.
The plant has been idle since May as the COVID-19 pandemic hit fuel ethanol demand as the world went into shutdown.
Demand for fuel ethanol has since shown some signs of recovering, but it still remains about 20-30% lower when compared... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 15, 2020
The sustainable fuels technology company Velocys has welcomed the announcement from UK Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, on the formation of a new Jet Zero Council.
Shapps used his appearance at the daily coronavirus press conference last week to announce the moves, which he said would support the government's vision of a “greener transport future”.
During... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Jun 12, 2020
Figures published by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) revealed oil mills processed more rapeseed in March compared with the previous month.
The total is reported at 737,000 tonnes, up approximately 10,000 tonnes from the previous month. However, it is not so much the tonnage as the origin of rapeseed processed that is noteworthy. According to... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 12, 2020
Velocys, the sustainable fuels technology company, has revealed it has secured a further £500,000 (€557,000) grant funding for the Altalto waste-to-fuels project from the Department for Transport (DfT).
The proposed Altalto Immingham plant is planned to convert hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year of residual waste into sustainable fuels - mainly aviation fuel.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jun 12, 2020
Five trainloads of US petrol pre-blended at an E10 rate arrived in Guadalajara in May – a direct success of the Grains Council’s (USGC’s) collaboration with the Mexican Association of Service Station Providers (AMPES).
The 14,500 gallons of ethanol (5,300 bushels in corn equivalent) helped to demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of increased ethanol... [Read More]
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