In Sweden, Liquid Wind receives support from Industriklivet, the Swedish Energy Agency’s program supporting Swedish industry’s green transition, amounting to €3.6 million (SEK39 million), for the pre-engineering of the company’s full-scale eMethanol plant in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The Swedish Energy Agency has assessed that the project will provide a solid foundation for Liquid Wind to move […]
In Ghana, F&B Bio Recyclage Ltd, an innovative recycling Start-up producer is thrilled to announce the successful completion of Phase 1 of our groundbreaking 2000 tons per day Municipal solid waste conversion facility in Ghana. Our innovative project represents a significant advancement in sustainable fuel production, combining state-of-the-art gasification and Fischer-Tropsch technologies to transform municipal […]
In the Netherlands, Neste’s pioneering MultiPLHY project demonstrating renewable hydrogen production has reached a key milestone: The consortium partners have successfully started up the world’s largest multi-megawatt high-temperature electrolyzer (HTE) in an industrial environment at Neste’s renewable products refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The pilot project demonstrates the viability of renewable hydrogen in reducing the […]
In Norway, on November 26, Havila Voyages will fill the tanks of Havila Polaris with 200 cubic meters of liquefied biogas at Polarbase outside Hammerfest for a historic voyage along the Norwegian coast. This sailing will prove that climate neutrality in the next tender on the coastal route is possible, and that using biogas in […]
In Australia, InnovationAus reported that the Western Australian government is working to develop an advanced biofuels strategy aimed at building a local biofuels industry and cutting emissions. The state expects the strategy to help identify its use of existing agricultural and forestry resources in producing renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, according to the report. […]
In South Africa, Energize reported that The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has secured a grant from Dutch development finance institution Invest International to advance Johannesburg’s Alternative Waste Treatment Technology (AWTT) project. The AWTT will process about 500 000 tons of municipal solid waste annually, around a third of the city’s total, using mass-burn […]
In the Philippines, Philippines News Agency reported that the Government is addressing the need to increase power supply by reducing the volume of trash and has set a special green energy auction (GEA) on waste-to-energy (WTE) projects in January next year. The Department of Energy (DOE) said the waste for the initial projects will be […]
In India, Carbon Herald reported that India has achieved a significant step toward industrial decarbonization with the successful production of its first drop of methanol derived from captured carbon dioxide at NTPC’s Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station in Madhya Pradesh. The report noted that the carbon capture project was jointly developed by NTPC ’s Energy […]
In the UK, Fuel Cells Works reported that European Energy has unveiled its latest innovation — bio-methanol produced via electrified steam methane reforming (e-SMR). The company, already operating its flagship Kassø e-Methanol Facility in Denmark, said the e-SMR pathway represents a “next generation” step in Power-to-X technology, combining renewable electricity with biogas feedstocks to produce […]
In the UK, Reuters reported that Shell expects to report a $600 million hit in the third quarter after abandoning its biofuels project in Rotterdam, bringing total impairments and provisions related to the venture to $1.4 billion. Shell had approved development of the 820,000 metric tons-per-year biofuels plant in 2021, but paused construction last year […]
