In Portugal, HyOrc Corporation has signed a definitive joint venture agreement with Portuguese waste infrastructure and fuels company Start Lda to co-develop and operate a national network of green methanol plants using HyOrc’s proprietary RDF-to-methanol technology. The JV will deploy an initial 35 Tons Per Day (TPD) launch unit in Porto, producing 8 TPD of […]
In California, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has announced it has broken ground on three renewable natural gas (RNG) production facilities under its development agreement with Maas Energy Works. These projects span six dairies located in South Dakota, Georgia, Florida and New Mexico, and are expected to produce approximately three million gallons of RNG annually once […]
In India, the Assam Tribune reports Numaligarh Refinery Limited is already exploring the possibility of producing sustainable aviation fuel with the ethanol it produces from its recently launched bamboo-based ethanol plant. However, since the plant only produces 50,000 metric tons per day, in order to justify investment in upgrading to SAF, the company says more […]
In Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports that Verdant Earth Technologies has been denied planning permission to revamp the mothballed former coal-fired Redbank Power Station into the country’s largest biomass power plant, using weeds and bioenergy crops as feedstock. New South Wales’ Independent Planning Commission rejection cited failure to address enviornmental concerns—95% of 600 public […]
In Argentina, Oils and Fats Magazine reports the country’s biodiesel producion is expected to hit the lowest volume on record at 1.2 billion liters as policies and market dynamics has led the industry to idle 70% of installed capacity, USDA data shows. Of that total, exports are expected to hit a 20-year low at 340 […]
In Singapore, Shell announces a new bio-LNG supply agreement with the KIS GROUP, enabling Shell to supply biomethane, regasified from bio-LNG, to customers in Singapore from 2027. Bio-LNG is derived from organic waste, helps reduce lifecycle emissions, and is a drop-in renewable fuel that requires no major infrastructure changes. This marks the latest addition to […]
In Germany, researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are proposing a method with which raw and waste materials from plants can be processed in a self-contained procedure under mild reaction conditions. This method means that the complex drying and transportation of biomass to large biomass gasification plants becomes superfluous. The results were published in the journal […]
In Australia, the Albanese Government is investing A$1.1 billion to help unlock the vast economic opportunities on offer from low carbon liquid fuels. The new ten-year Cleaner Fuels Program will stimulate private investment in Australian onshore production of low carbon liquid fuels, such as renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel. The first production of ‘drop-in’ […]
In the UK, Lloyd’s Register (LR) has launched its new Biofuel Advisory service at London International Shipping Week to help shipowners, fuel suppliers and producers adopt biofuels safely and at scale. The initiative builds on two years of groundwork and combines LR’s energy transition advisory with the technical expertise of its Fuel Oil Bunker Analysis […]
In Texas, HIF Global has selected Electric Hydrogen (EH2) to supply its cutting-edge electrolyzer systems for HIF’s Texas e-Fuels facility. Electric Hydrogen’s high-power electrolyzers, engineered and manufactured in the United States, are pioneering the next generation of low-cost, high-performance hydrogen production and leveraging modularization to dramatically reduce costs and construction timelines. The electrochemical stacks, the heart […]
