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May 23, 2019
US ag industry calls on Congress to extend biodiesel tax credit
Bioethanol News
May 23, 2019
Federated Cooperatives Limited (FCL) has agreed to acquire Terra Grain Fuels’ (TGF) 150 million litre per year ethanol plant, located near Belle Plaine in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
This will enable co-ops in Western Canada to continue to offer transportation fuels to members so they can meet existing renewable fuel standards and prepare for the upcoming... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 23, 2019
The German Association of Biodiesel Producers (Verband der Deutschen Biokraftstoffindustrie, VDB) has released its 2018 biodiesel production figures, with 3.2 million tonnes of biodiesel produced by German companies throughout the year.
Of this total, rapeseed and used cooking oil accounted for the highest proportion of raw materials in biodiesel production.
According... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 28, 2019
Last week, Chairman of the US House Committee on Agriculture, Collin Peterson, together with Representatives Dusty Johnson, Dave Loebsack, Rodney Davis and Roger Marshall introduced the bipartisan Renewable Fuel Standard Integrity Act of 2019.
The legislation aims to bring transparency to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) small refinery exemption (SRE)... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 28, 2019
Amsterdam-based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producer SkyNRG has selected Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex™ technology for its planned renewable diesel and jet fuel facility at Delfzijl in the Netherlands.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has committed to purchase 75,000 tonnes of SAJ per year over a ten-year peiod. The fuel will be supplied directly to aircraft at a local... [Read More]
Other News
May 28, 2019
BASF, The Estée Lauder Companies and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) have teamed up with civil society organisation Solidaridad to promote sustainable palm oil production in Lampung, Indonesia.
The project, which is based in the Waykanan district of Lampung, supports independent Indonesian smallholder farmers to improve their production of palm oil... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 29, 2019
Advanced biofuels producer NEXT Renewable Fuels (NEXT) has entered into a long-term feedstock supply agreement with BP Products North America (BP).
Under the agreement, NEXT will purchase approximately 2 million metric tons of renewable feedstocks annually for NEXT’s planned renewable diesel facility in Port Westward, Oregon, US.
Feedstock supplied by BP will include... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 29, 2019
New data from the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) programme has revealed that biodiesel and renewable diesel have delivered the largest-ever reduction in transport-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the state.
According to the figures for 2018, California’s use of biodiesel and renewable diesel reduced carbon dioxide... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 30, 2019
The US Grains Council (USGC) has revealed that non-beverage ethanol has taken the top spot as the fastest growing US agricultural export over the past 10 years.
Last year, exports totalled over 6.5 billion litres of US ethanol, worth $2.7 billion (€2.4 billion).
Analysis of trade data from the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA... [Read More]
Features
Apr 25, 2019
With the entry into force of the revision of the renewable energy directive (REDII) in December 2018, following months of intense negotiations, the European Union (EU) biofuels industry at large entered a no less important phase in which Member States have to put in place the necessary national REDII implementing legislation ahead of the 31 June 2021 transposition deadline.... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 26, 2019
Freight and passenger ferry operator DFDS has announced its investment in start-up biofuels producer Mash Energy.
Mash Energy produces biofuel from agricultural waste, which it currently sources from the by-product of nut processing in Tanzania and India.
The two companies will work to develop a commercially viable alternative shipping fuel to currently used fossil fuels,... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 29, 2019
Biofuels producer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has announced first quarter net earnings of $233 million (approximately €209 million) after extreme weather and flooding in the US Midwest negatively impacted earnings.
The company announced plans to spin off its ethanol business after disappointing biofuel margins and flooding in the Midwest caused ADM’s profits... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Apr 30, 2019
US-based KATZEN International has agreed to design a corn-based fuel ethanol plant in Brazil for Ethanol S. A. Bioenergia.
The plant, which will be located in the Nova Mutum, Mato Grosso region of the South American country, broke ground earlier this month.
The Ethanol S. A. Bioenergia facility is a joint venture project between Grupo O+ Participações and... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Apr 30, 2019
Valero Energy has released its first quarter 2019 results, announcing net income of $141 million (€126 million) for the first three months of the year.
This was down from $469 million for the same quarter last year.
“Investments to increase our system’s flexibility and the team’s relentless focus on safety enabled us to capture good margins in an... [Read More]
Features
Apr 30, 2019
The EU is committed to carbon neutrality by the middle of the century, but long-term objectives require ambitious action today. The clean energy and climate package, including a set of legislations to ensure the EU is on track to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 40% by 2030, have now all been adopted. An important legislation is the Effort Sharing Regulation... [Read More]
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