In Brazil, Datamar News reported that Brazil soybean exports are expected to reach 7.74 million metric tons in September, about 760,000 tons more than in the same month last year, according to the first monthly shipment forecast released by grain exporters’ association Anec. Brazilian corn exports, by contrast, are expected to post another year-on-year decline […]
In Argentina, Agro Latam reported that China bought about 1 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans this week, according to traders familiar with the transactions, accelerating purchases ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s expected visit to Washington later this month. The buying matters for American agriculture because it brings China close to halfway toward its […]
In Bulgaria, Renewables Now reported that Germany’s RWE has agreed to supply up to 75 GWh of renewable electricity annually to Air Products to feed the US industrial gases company’s existing hydrogen plants as well as a new hydrogen liquefaction facility currently under construction in Rotterdam. Under the long-term power purchase agreement (PPA), the electricity […]
In Belgium, the Hydrogen Council said its Global Hydrogen Compass 2026 stated that the committed investment in clean hydrogen has surpassed $130 billion, corresponding to 6.9 Mtpa of committed capacity across more than 570 projects worldwide, 90% of which are under construction or already operational. “Shifting geopolitical priorities are strengthening hydrogen’s role as a strategic […]
In Bulgaria, Renewables Now reported that the municipal utility of Poland’s city of Koszalin has signed a $81 million contract with local engineering company AB Industry for the construction of a plant for recovery of energy from waste. The planned facility will have an annual capacity of 30,000 tons of waste, which will enable the […]
In the Philippines, Business Times reported that the local government’s special green energy auction (GEA) round for waste-to-energy (WTE) projects has attracted 11 qualified bidders covering 14 projects. The Department of Energy (DoE) said in an advisory that it had issued the list of qualified bidders after deliberations by the Green Energy Auction-Bids Evaluation and […]
In Malaysia, the Star reported that Kawan Renergy Bhd (KRB) has received the green-light from Sustainable Energy Development Authority to build and run a 2.5 megawatts (MW) biomass power plant under Malaysia’s Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme through its subsidiary, Magenko Renewables. The approval grants Magenko a 21-year concession to sell green electricity to the national […]
In Italy, Eni and Petronas have signed a feasibility agreement (FA) to evaluate the development of innovative high-performance bio-gasoline starting from the established Ecofining technology process, through which Eni has been producing HVO biofuels from renewable raw materials since 2014. The partners said that the aim of the agreement is to assess the technical, market, […]
In Germany, Bayer and Neste have finalized a commercial agreement to jointly scale Bayer’s newgold winter canola. The collaboration will enable Bayer to significantly expand acres of winter canola in the Southern Great Plains of the US, strengthening the oilseed supply potential of lower-carbon-intensity feedstocks to meet the growing global demand for biofuels such as […]
In California, Stanford University said that researchers at Stanford have developed a new, highly efficient, and low-emission method for producing hydrogen. The process improves heating efficiency by using some of the produced hydrogen to heat the process internally rather than externally. The method, described in a new study published in Science, uses a process called […]
