In India, Energetica reports Gruner Renewable Energy has signed an MOU with Bioenergy Germany to establish the country’s first bio-CNG plants using Napier grass as feedstock. Together the companies have agreed to establish 100 such plants with the first one set to be completed in Maharashtra in November, owned by APSS Bio Energy. The world’s […]
In Sweden, Ship & Bunker report ScanOcean and Neste have expanded their collaboration to include a new co-processed DMA MGO bunker fuel that reduces GHG emissions by 80% compared to purely fossil fuel DMA MGO. The fossil based MGO costs $943 per metric ton while the fuel co-processed with Neste’s bio component costs around $1,700 […]
In Brazil, Bloomberg reports Stellantis plans to launch its hybrid ethanol cars in Brazil next year. The company has three hybrid prototype vehicles and one electric pure-play and expects 60% of sales to be from biofuel hybrid vehicles by 2030. Flex-fuel cars are the vast majority of vehicles sales with EVs and electric hybrid cars […]
In the UK, Insider reports Diageo has begun an HVO trial with Malcolm Logistics fueling 11 trucks running up to 100 loads daily between now and October from the company’s largest packaging plant globally in Leven. In addition to an expected reduction of 171 metric tons of CO2 during the trial period, the test will […]
In Australia, RMIT scientists have shown it’s possible to grow fungi in thin sheets that could be used for fire-retardant cladding or even a new kind of fungal fashion. The novel method of creating mycelium sheets that are paper-thin, like wallpaper, works without pulverising the mycelium’s filament network. Instead, they used different growth conditions and […]
In India, the Hindu Business Line reports that new higher prices for ethanol made from rice and corn have been approved and are about to be rolled out in an effort to help reach 12% ethanol blending nationwide, yet the government recently retracted its approval for ethanol from rice due to food security concerns. Supply […]
In Texas, Fluor Corporation has been awarded a contract by LanzaTech UK Limited to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for one of the United Kingdom’s (UK) first planned commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facilities in Port Talbot, Wales. Fluor recognized the award in the second quarter of 2023. Fluor will help advance LanzaTech’s […]
In Germany, since February, ISCC has been made aware of potentially fraudulent behaviour regarding unusual trade volumes in the field of biodiesel made from waste and residues coming from China. Furthermore, ISCC was told that the increase of up to half a million tons of biodiesel from China caused a dramatic fall in biodiesel prices […]
In France, TotalEnergies, Baker Hughes, Technip Energies, Azimut (through the fund Azimut ELTIF – Infrastructure & Real Assets ESG) and other investors have signed preliminary agreement to invest in Zhero Europe in order to develop large scale renewable energies projects in Europe and Africa spanning across renewable power generation, power interconnections and green molecules. Zhero […]
In Belgium, Honeywell and ZoneFlow Reactor Technologies, LLC (ZFRT) announced that they successfully conducted pilot plant testing of the ZoneFlow Reactor in ZFRT’s large-scale pilot plant at Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. The near-commercial-level testing validated increased steam reforming capacity by at least 15% in terms of feed flow compared to conventional state-of-the-art […]
