In Washington, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act, a bill to end the corn ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard. The mandate requires annual increases in the amount of renewable fuel that must be blended into the total volume […]
In the UK, Kao Data announced it has taken a further step towards its Net Zero ambitions by becoming the UK’s first data center to transition all backup generators at its Harlow campus to HVO. This pioneering move, made possible by partnering with Crown Oil, means Kao Data will eliminate up to 90% of net […]
In California, JetBlue has entered into a new relationship with World Energy and World Fuel Services for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). JetBlue’s LAX flights using SAF started this month. This increase in the airline’s usage of SAF includes 1.5 million gallons of blended SAF a year for at least […]
In the UK, FLI Energy has begun construction of the Euston biogas plant, a Biomethane to Grid Anaerobic Digestion project located on the Euston Estate in Suffolk, UK. Once operating to full capacity, the AD plant will generate 10 million cubic meters of biogas, the electrical equivalent of powering over 5,000 UK homes. Under the GBP9 million […]
In Nebraska, Nebraska Corn Board (NCB) has long provided infrastructure grants to fuel retailers and supported local ethanol expansion within the state. To complement this work, NCB is additionally boosting ethanol demand in population-dense areas, like California. NCB recently partnered with Pearson Fuels to help two fuel retailers in Los Angeles County – the most […]
In Romania, the ACT news agency reports that Belgo-American New-Energy plans to invest EUR60 million in a corn-based ethanol facility in in Nadlac, near Arad. The proposed facility would use 340,000 metric tons of corn from local farmers during the first phase of production. Hungarian company EuroMediu will build the new plant starting next spring. […]
In Malaysia, Reuters reports palm oil prices continue to climb higher to $981 per metric ton, supported by a tight market and a weakening Malaysian ringgit. But with OPEC+ countries agreeing to increase oil production, prices didn’t go as high as they would have otherwise. With COVID-19 again surging around Southeast Asia, it’s difficult to […]
In the UK, Green Fuels Research, in partnership with the School of Chemical Engineering, Hà Nội University of Science and Technology (HUST) has been awarded grant funding by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, under Energy Catalyst 8 to conduct a feasibility study into the conversion of pangasius (catfish) mortalities and processing waste into a […]
In India, the ANI news agency reports Union Minister Piyush Goyal said 20% ethanol blending will be achieved as soon as 2023/24, even ahead of the latest 2025 target that was brought ahead further from 2030. He made the update in the context of a wider discussion on India’s overall renewable energy plans, which aims […]
In Florida, Alliance BioEnergy Plus, DBA Blue Biofuels, Inc. announced a new market for its production of sulfur free lignin, in addition to the bioplastics market. The Carbon Basis Company Ltd.’s (CBC) patented carbon-based ion exchange purification process plans to utilize lignin produced by the company as a biomaterial replacement for the synthetic resins currently […]
