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Swedish furniture group Ikea announced that it has invested into a pilot programme to bring biofuels to the shipping industry.
Ikea’s Transport & Logistics Services division revealed that it will be investing in the ‘first-ever’ fuelling of a container vessel with biofuel oil.
“Our long-term ambition at IKEA Transport & Logistics Services is to reduce greenhouse…
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A wheat-based biofuels facility in Alberta, Canada has received CAD$5 million in funding from Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) in an effort to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the province, ERA has announced.
Known as Project Wheatland, the CAD$285 million biofuels plant is being developed by Carbon Clean Energy (CCE) and will produce low carbon intensity ethanol in line with…
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that sustainable jet fuel made from plants could offer a competitive alternative to fossil fuels, if current scale-up continues.
In a report titled ‘Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle greenhouse gas mitigation cost of five routes to bio-jet blendstocks’, published in…
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Dutch biofuel producer GoodFuels has fuelled the first inland vessel from Combined Cargo Terminals (CCT) with 100% sustainable biofuel, the company has announced.
Together with partner REINPLUS FIWADO Bunker, GoodFuels has demonstrated up to a 90% reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, compared to fossil fuels, on the ‘For Ever’ vessel for Dutch beer company Heineken.
The fuel…
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Brazil-based GranBio announced that it has completed the acquisition of 100% equity in US biotechnology company American Process and affiliate companies, for an undisclosed sum.
Assets acquired by GranBio include the Alpena Biorefinery in Michigan, the Thomaston Biorefinery and research and development (R&D) centre in Georgia, in addition to employees and an intellectual property portfolio…
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A recent study commissioned by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) has found that biofuels contribute over $5 billion (€4.38 million) to Iowa’s GDP, equivalent to 3%.
The ‘Contribution of the renewable fuels industry to the economy of Iowa’ report, authored by John Urbanchuck, managing partner at ABF Economics, revealed that the biofuels industry supports over…
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Gulfstream Aerospace has made its first sale of sustainable alternative jet fuel (SAJF) to a US-based Gulfstream operator.
The customer bought 20,000 pounds of Gulfstream’s bio-jet fuel from its facility in Long Beach, California for its Gulfstream G550 aircraft.
“This sale is a direct result of our efforts to increase the visibility and availability of sustainable alternative jet…
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Political party, Australia-first are trialling the use of 100% renewable diesel to fuel a Scania test engine, with support from the Palaszczuk Government’s Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund.
Southern Oil’s Advanced Biofuels Pilot Plant at Yarwun, near Gladstone, is pioneering the refining of renewable diesel fuel made from waste plastic, old tyres, agricultural and forestry…
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German ethanol producer CropEnergies revealed that in a board meeting, the company has decided to resume ethanol production at its UK plant in Wilton at the beginning of March 2019.
Biofuels International reported on the initial 'pause' of production at the facility in October 2018 which was due to what the company cited as 'difficult market conditions'.
According to a release, the company…
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US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would ‘very likely’ complete a policy change allowing year-long sales of 15% ethanol blend gasoline (E15) in time for the summertime driving season, Reuters reports.
“Today he told me he thought it was very likely that they could get it done and would do so if at all possible,”…
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Colorado-headquartered advanced biofuel producer Gevo announced that it has entered into a long-term renewable isooctane purchase and sale agreement with chemical manufacturing group HCS.
Gevo claims that the agreement is an important step forward in its strategy to build out its advanced biofuels production facility in Luverne, Minnesota to increase the production of renewable isobutanol,…
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The Local has reported that an investigator appointed by the Swedish government is to propose requiring airlines to use carbon neutral biofuels, but only expects a reduction of 1 to 5% by 2025.
Former Green Party leader, Maria Wetterstrand was tasked with investigating measures in order to promote biofuels in flights. Wetterstrand states that the report will suggest that the planned biofuels…
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon have introduced bipartisan legislation to retroactively extend tax provisions that expired at the end of 2017 and 2018. The legislation will also provide disaster tax relief benefits to individuals and businesses affected by major disasters occurring in 2018.
In March of 2018 the biodiesel tax credit…
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