In the UK, drivers across Northern Ireland will soon be able to fill up with greener fuel when E10 is rolled out as the new standard grade of petrol from November 1, 2022. The rollout of E10 will help Northern Ireland to decarbonize transport. Its use across the UK could contribute to cutting transport CO2 […]
In the UK, funding for researchers at Cranfield University to look at new ways to generate hydrogen energy from biomass has been announced by the Government. The technology would allow biomass – organic products such as wood, grasses or used brewery hops – to be used to generate hydrogen while capturing CO2 emissions at the […]
In South Dakota, AgWeb reports that dozens of farmers, including those who grow corn for ethanol production, are opposing the use of imminent domain for Summit Carbon Solution’s proposed carbon pipeline project that would transport CO2 emissions from ethanol plants across the Midwest into a single CCS project. They say that eminent domain should only […]
In California, IHI Power Services Corp. (IPSC) has deepened its partnership with California Ethanol + Power (CE+P) via a 15-year asset management deal to oversee its forthcoming Sugar Valley Energy campus outside of Brawley, Calif. The project is expected to produce approximately 70 million gallons of extremely low-carbon, fuel-grade Essential Ethanol™ from locally grown sugarcane; […]
In Canada, EverWind Fuels Company, a private developer of green hydrogen and ammonia production in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Uniper announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for Uniper to purchase green ammonia from EverWind’s initial production facility in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia. Under the MOU, EverWind and Uniper intend to negotiate a binding […]
In Singapore, TotalEnergies Marine Fuels has completed the first refueling of a COSCO container ship with sustainable marine biofuels. This is TotalEnergies’ first biofuel bunkering operation for a container ship in Singapore. The 4,250 TEU container ship Cosco Houston was refueled with biofuels supplied by TotalEnergies in Singapore waters, via ship-to-ship transfer. VLSFO (Very Low […]
In Louisiana, Strategic Biofuels announced that the Port of Columbia, home to the Louisiana Green Fuels project (LGF) has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FEMA through its Port Security Grant Program (PSGP). The PSGP is part of a series of grant programs created by Congress and […]
In South Africa, Kibo Energy has initiated a process for Requests for Proposals to investigate the feasibility of replacing fossil-fuel (coal) with renewable biofuel, as mentioned in the company’s RNS dated May 27, 2022. This follows an extensive review of the company’s operations and assets wherein it determined to dispose of all its coal assets […]
In Germany, the Cologne-based company BIO-FED and the Brazilian distributor Piramidal signed a distribution agreement for the Brazilian market in April 2022. BIO-FED is a branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH, member of the Feddersen Group and an expert in developing and producing biodegradable and/or biobased compounds under the brand name M·VERA®. This grade range consists of […]
In New Zealand, the Bioenergy Association welcomed consultation on the government’s draft Forestry and Wood Processing Industry Transformation Plan, and the better utilisation of New Zealand’s vast forestry resource. Rob Mallinson, convenor of the Bioenergy Association’s Solid Biofuels Group, says bioenergy from forestry residues, will support New Zealand’s energy system as pressure on the electricity […]
