In Indonesia, with an eye on increased demand for diesel in December, Reuters reports that the government has increased its biodiesel allocation for mandatory blending to 6.63 billion liters from the prior 6.19 billion liters. The country has been pushing hard to boost its biodiesel mandate, currently at 20%, to 30% in 2020 with a […]
In Colorado, Gevo announced the signing of a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Leaf Resources. Leaf is a Queensland, Australia-based company and one of the world’s leading companies in converting plant biomass into industrial sugars. The JDA is to explore the potential use of cellulosic derived sugars and glycerol from Leaf and the ability to […]
In Norway, MAN Truck & Bus delivered 105 city buses to Vy Buss AS and another 84 vehicles to Tide Buss AS to Trondheim, most of which run on biodiesel or biogas. The solobuses are 12 meters long and feature an E2876 LUH Euro 6 gas engine. In terms of fuel, drivers can use both […]
In Denmark, DNV says in its most recent edition of its Maritime Forecast to 2050 that widespread adoption of low-emission and carbon-neutral fuels could potentially take a long time, factoring in the time needed to properly develop low-carbon fuels, production capacity and infrastructure and to scale this. This study therefore introduces ‘bridging technologies’ that can […]
In the UK, the National Farmers Union has released its net-zero to 2040 farming strategy which includes a pillar focused on displacing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through bioenergy. The NFU says the combining bioenergy with carbon capture and storage on farms could reduce GHG emissions by […]
In Washington, DTN reports that Energy Information Agency data shows that ethanol production moved up from a 21-week low last week, producing an average of 1.023 million barrels per day. An increase in production of about 10,000 barrels per day didn’t offset the drawdown on stocks, which fell by more than 1.3 million barrels from […]
In Singapore, Reuters reports that the US Grains Council sees Asia as a major market for increased ethanol imports, where it current exports about 300 million gallons per year but could reach 1 billion gallons in the next five years. With the ongoing trade war with China that has hit ethanol demand hard, that target […]
In Washington, analysis by the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) showed that non-beverage ethanol has been the fastest growing U.S. agricultural export over the past five years, an achievement supported by Council and ethanol industry programming to promote import-facilitating policy development around the world. In 2018, U.S. ethanol exports totaled more than 6.1 billion liters (1.62 […]
In Texas, Valero Energy Corporation and Darling Ingredients Inc. are addressing the growing demand for renewable diesel in global, low-carbon markets by initiating an advanced engineering and development cost review for a new plant in Port Arthur, Texas. The proposed facility under review would be designed to produce 400 million gallons of renewable diesel annually […]
In France, European Supermarkets Magazine reports that Strategie Grains expects European rapeseed production to fall to 17.05 million metric tons, down from its earlier estimate of 17.4 million tons and the lowest seen in 13 years. The estimate is also 15% down on last year’s crop. As a result of lower production, the analysts also […]
