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Aug 9, 2024
Rising to the challenge
Bioethanol News
Aug 7, 2024
Yvonne Moynihan, corporate and ESG officer of Wizz Air, describes why the airline is adopting new strategies to become cleaner and greener
Can you introduce yourself and outline to our readers your role within the company?
As the corporate and ESG officer of Wizz Air, along with leading legal, regulatory, corporate and government affairs areas, I oversee Wizz Air’s... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
Aug 7, 2024
Independent US refiner Delek has announced its decision to 'temporary idle' its Crossett, Arkansas, Cleburne, Texas and New Albany, Mississippi biodiesel facilities, while it explores 'viable and sustainable alternatives'.
The organisation's Q2 results stated that Delek's decision to idle the facilities was 'driven by the decline in the overall biodiesel market and aligns... [Read More]
Features
Aug 6, 2024
The urgency of the climate crisis requires a meaningful transition to cleaner sources of energy, even as energy demand is sure to rise.
Biofuels will be essential in our energy shift – especially in challenging areas, like jet fuel decarbonisation.
With the United States alone consuming more than 20 billion gallons of jet fuel annually, biofuels must undergo unprecedented... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 6, 2024
According to a new report from the USDA the production of renewable diesel in the US has grown from 40 million gallons in the 2010/11 marketing year to 2.3 billion gallons in 2022/23 - surpassing biodiesel production for the first time.
This increase is led in part by renewable diesel producer Neste, a leading renewable diesel provider both in the U.S and globally.
This... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 5, 2024
Argent Energy is pleased to announce that Dickon Posnett, the company’s Corporate Affairs Director, has recently been re-elected as president of the European Biodiesel Board (EBB).
The EBB has recently had great success in their drive to stop the dumping of biodiesel into the EU after successfully obtaining provisional anti-dumping duties in its trade case against Chinese... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 5, 2024
International Airlines Group (IAG) has reached an agreement with the multi-energy company Repsol for the purchase and supply during the next six months of more than 28,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The SAF provided by Repsol will be used by the IAG airlines flying from Spanish airports, including Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Iberia Express and... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 2, 2024
Gunvor Group will join VARO Energy in building a large-scale SAF manufacturing facility at the Gunvor Energy Rotterdam site through a proposed joint venture.
Since VARO announced on September 7, 2023 its intention to build a large scale SAF facility as a sole owner with total feedstock capacity of 350 kt pa, the project has made good progress.
Under the terms of the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 2, 2024
PETRONAS, Enilive and Euglena have made a final investment decision to develop a biorefinery at PETRONAS’ Pengerang Integrated Complex in Johor, Malaysia.
Set to be operational by the second half of 2028, the biorefinery will produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and other biofuels.
The facility will process about 650,000 tonnes of raw materials annually, leveraging... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 1, 2024
Trafigura Group has completed the acquisition of Greenergy’s European and Canadian supply businesses from Brookfield Asset Management and its listed affiliate Brookfield Business Partners.
Founded in 1992 to supply diesel with lower emissions, Greenergy is today one of Europe’s largest suppliers of biofuels with manufacturing plants in the UK and the Netherlands and... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Aug 1, 2024
Neste has commissioned terminal capacity at ONEOK’s terminal in Houston, Texas for blending and storing Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™.
This is a major step in further expanding the availability of Neste’s SAF to airlines also operating from airports east of the Rocky Mountains all the way to the East Coast.
The new capacity at ONEOK’s terminal in Houston... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 31, 2024
Holland America Line announced the start of a biofuel test on its flagship, Rotterdam, leveraging 100% low carbon intensity biofuel while sailing within the Norwegian World Heritage Fjords.
The ship bunkered the biofuel before leaving the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on April 27 and will operate one of its four engines using low carbon intensity oil derived from... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 31, 2024
For Mazda’s 35th anniversary of the MX-5 Celtic Renewables welcomed the team and four car models to its biorefinery in Grangemouth.
The cars had embarked on a 1,000-mile journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats using 100% biofuel from SUSTAIN Fuel - derived from agricultural waste.
Mazda and SUSTAIN Fuel chose Celtic Renewables as one of their stops to... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 30, 2024
Neste reported its first net loss since 2014 in the second quarter of this year, as the Finnish refiner grappled with a downturn in the global biofuels market and prolonged outages at its Porvoo refinery.
In a July 25 earnings statement, Neste announced a net loss of €144 million for Q2, marking its first negative profit since Q4 2014 and the largest loss in over a... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
Jul 30, 2024
Air New Zealand has dropped a 2030 emissions reduction target - blaming delivery delays of fuel-efficient aircraft and high sustainable aviation fuel prices.
However, the carrier said it was committed to an industry-wide target of net-zero emissions by 2050.
Aviation is deemed responsible for about 2% of the world's emissions but is considered one of the hardest sectors... [Read More]
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