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May 29, 2019
Biodiesel, renewable diesel fuel largest-ever reductions in California’s transport GHG emissions
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]
Biodiesel News
May 3, 2019
Biofuels producer VERBIO Diesel Canada has agreed to purchase a biodiesel plant in Canada from Atlantic Biodiesel.
The plant, which has an annual production capacity of 150,000 tonnes of biodiesel and 18,000 tonnes of raw glycerin, is located in Dain City, Ontario.
The deal is expected to close by the middle of 2019, pending certain conditions.
According to VERBIO, the... [Read More]
Bioethanol News
May 3, 2019
According to a release from industry association Growth Energy, the US state of New Mexico has become the 31st state to offer consumers the E15 ethanol fuel blend at fuel stations.
The Murphy USA station in Albuquerque has joined the nearly 1,800 locations across the US that offer the fuel, which is blended with 15% renewable ethanol.
Known to consumers as Unleaded 88,... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 7, 2019
Biofuel producer Aemetis has announced that its Indian subsidiary, Universal Biofuels India, has won a biodiesel supply contract with three government-owned oil marketing companies.
Awarded under a public tender process, the contract covers the ongoing supply of biodiesel to a number of locations, totalling no more than $23 million (€20.5 million) during 2019.
According... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 7, 2019
Biodiesel producer Renewable Energy Group (REG) has entered a partnership with Broco Oil Company to provide clean fuel options to heating oil dealers in the northeast of the US.
Under the partnership, the two companies will collaborate on a biodiesel blending facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with a biofuels producer like REG... [Read More]
Biodiesel News
May 8, 2019
Renewable diesel producer Neste has announced that its MY Renewable Jet Fuel has been recognised for its role in reducing black carbon emissions.
The fuel was crowned winner in the category for solutions reducing black carbon emissions, as part of a competition designed to find effective ways to reduce black carbon emissions.
According to the release, the competition was... [Read More]
Policy News
May 8, 2019
A group of 35 members of the US House of Representatives has written to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Andrew Wheeler to request the agency stop granting small refinery exemptions (SREs) for large or unqualified refiners under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The bipartisan letter, which was authored by Representatives Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) and... [Read More]
Other News
May 8, 2019
Lecturers from Loughborough University in the UK have been awarded £200,000 from the Department for Transport (DfT) for research into the development of sustainable bioenergy systems.
The grant has been granted to Dr Jin Xuan, senior lecturer in low carbon processes, Dr Tanja Radu, lecturer in water engineering, and Dr Jonathan Wagner, lecturer in chemical engineering.
It... [Read More]
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Global biofuel demand is expected to surge, with the IEA projecting a 23% increase by 2028. Renewable diesel and ethanol are expected to account for two thirds of this growth with new regulations such as FuelEU stimulating uptake.
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