In India, Bloomberg reports Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has called on all airlines to quickly adopt sustainable fuels to help transition the aviation industry towards net carbon zero. The minister wants 96 Indian airports to be carbon neutral and powered by renewable energy by 2024 compared to the two that are considered “green” today. […]
In the UK, British Airways will become the first airline in the world to use sustainable aviation fuel produced on a commercial scale in the UK after signing a multi-year agreement with Phillips 66 Limited. Thousands of tons of SAF will be produced for the first time in the UK at the Phillips 66 Humber […]
In New York state, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc has launched the RVO (OPIS) Current Year Future & Argus RVO Current Year Future, based on the OPIS and Argus daily price assessments. Each futures contract is equivalent to 50,000 gallons. ICE offers cash settled RINs futures, including the D6 ethanol and D4 biodiesel (OPIS) (product codes: RIN […]
In Oregon, the Oregon Department of State Lands (ODSL) approved the Removal-Fill permit for NEXT Renewable Fuels’ $2 billion clean fuels project. The approval allows NEXT to build a renewable diesel facility that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7 million tons each year and restore nearly 500 acres of wetlands to create habitat in […]
In South Korea, GS E&C will join hands with Denmark’s Haldor Topsoe to modularize Haldor Topsoe’s biodiesel production technology. Following green hydrogen, it plans to expand its modularization business to the biodiesel field, further strengthening its competitiveness in the renewable energy modularization business. The MOU calls for GS E&C to standardize and modularize the core […]
In Texas, Viridis Chemical, LLC announced its first production of renewable Ethyl Acetate from its manufacturing plant in Columbus, Nebraska. HELM U.S. Corporation, Viridis Chemical’s exclusive marketing partner, is already in the process of sending samples and distributing material to Ethyl Acetate customers. Björn Steckel, President Chemicals Americas of HELM U.S. Corporation, stated, “We are […]
In France, Airbus has performed a first A380 flight powered by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Airbus’ A380 test aircraft MSN 1 took off from Blagnac Airport, Toulouse, France at 08h43 on Friday 25 March. The flight lasted about three hours, operating one Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on 100% SAF. Twenty-seven metric tons of unblended […]
In Tennessee, a team of researchers working within the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels easier and less costly. The researchers focused on […]
In the Philippines, The Star newspaper reports the Ethanol Producers Association of the Philippines has pushed back against the government’s proposal to suspend ethanol blending in an effort to reduce fuel prices at the pump. The association says that it’s not the price of ethanol but taxes on fuel that are causing high prices, and […]
In Texas, AECOM has signed a strategic agreement with Genifuel Corporation to scale production of carbon neutral sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and biogas from wild algae and biosolids. The partnership employs a patent-pending process developed by AECOM to harvest wild algae and a patented process developed by Genifuel and the U.S. Department of Energy to […]
