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Australian government grants $158M to boost LCLF industry

Australian government grants $158M to boost LCLF industry

March 6, 2025 |

In Australia, the national government is delivering A$250 million to accelerate the pace of Australia’s growing domestic Low Carbon Liquid Fuels (LCLF) industry. This funding is part of the A$1.7 billion Future Made in Australia Innovation Fund and will be provided as grants to support pre-commercial innovation, demonstration and deployment. Australia’s domestic LCLF industry will […]

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Researchers develop superglue from mucus

Researchers develop superglue from mucus

March 6, 2025 |

In Germany, an international team of engineers from MIT and the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamic Hydrogels at Biointerfaces,” located at Freie Universität Berlin, has developed a new type of glue that combines the waterproof stickiness of the mussels’ plaques with the germ-proof properties of another natural material: mucus. The new mucus-derived glue prevented the buildup […]

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Canada Border Services Agency launches renewable diesel anti-dumping investigation into US

Canada Border Services Agency launches renewable diesel anti-dumping investigation into US

March 6, 2025 |

In Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency formally initiated a countervailing (anti-subsidy) and anti-dumping duty investigation into imports of renewable diesel from the United States. The Investigation follows a complaint filed by Tidewater Renewables at the end of 2024. In initiating the Investigation, CBSA confirms that Tidewater Renewables provided satisfactory evidence to support its allegations […]

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Hactl signs MOU with Shell Hong Kong expanding HVO use

Hactl signs MOU with Shell Hong Kong expanding HVO use

March 5, 2025 |

In China, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) – Hong Kong’s largest independent cargo handler – is entering into a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Shell Hong Kong Limited (Shell), covering the supply of renewable diesel fuel for its ramp equipment and road vehicles. Shell is recognizing Hactl as its first Strategic Collaborator on […]

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Clonbio Green Gas goes into receivership

Clonbio Green Gas goes into receivership

March 5, 2025 |

In Ireland, the Irish Times newspaper reports Clonbio Green Gas Ltd, trading as Green Generation, has gone into receivership after the State-owned Irish Strategic Investment Fund appointed receivers invited by the company. It is not yet clear if the company will remain operational while in recievership. The company blames government policy that makes the biomethane […]

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US opposes SAF recommendations at ICAO meeting

US opposes SAF recommendations at ICAO meeting

March 5, 2025 |

In Washington, the United States government strongly objects to a recommendation on “sustainable” aviation fuels made during the 13th triennial meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP).  This recommendation to the ICAO Council on multi-cropping, the practice of growing two or more crops on the same land, for […]

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Costa Rica aiming for second go at biofuels plan

Costa Rica aiming for second go at biofuels plan

March 5, 2025 |

In Costa Rica, El País reports the government will revive an old energy project to replace fossil fuels with biofuels. The initiative responds to a request to the Legislative Assembly by the country’s vice president, Stephan Brunner, to process the initiative on the energy transition of fuels presented more than a year ago. The recovery […]

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Gasum’s biogas to supply transport fuel for baker from its own waste

Gasum’s biogas to supply transport fuel for baker from its own waste

March 5, 2025 |

In Finland, Nordic energy company Gasum and the food and confectionary group Fazer have entered into an agreement on the use of biogas in the transport of Fazer’s bakery products. The inedible food waste generated at the bakeries is used to produce biogas in Gasum’s biogas plants. This means that some of Fazer’s products travel […]

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Himachal Pradesh aims to be India’s green hydrogen leader

Himachal Pradesh aims to be India’s green hydrogen leader

March 5, 2025 |

In India, a Memorandum of Commitment (MoC) was signed on Wednesday in the presence of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu between the state government and M/s Spray Engineering Devices Limited, Chandigarh to set up India’s first integrated Manufacturing Facility of API, Green Hydrogen and 2G Ethanol BBN of Solan district with a […]

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Virentis Advisors completes $68M of bioenergy ITC transfers for clients

Virentis Advisors completes $68M of bioenergy ITC transfers for clients

March 5, 2025 |

In Wisconsin, Virentis Advisors announced recently its clients have recently completed bioenergy ITC transfer transactions totaling over $68 million. The transactions include: ·      A dairy manure to RNG facility whose ITC was sold to an investment grade corporate buyer. ·      A biomass to power facility whose ITC was sold to an investment grade institutional buyer. […]

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