In Spain, XFuel’s European Innovation Council Accelerator project, ROW2FUEL, was awarded €7.7M blended finance from the October 2024 call to bring their sustainable transportation fuel to market. XFuel owns two proprietary technologies to produce high-grade transportation fuel from all types of scalable waste material: Chemical liquid refining (CLR) that refines and cracks hydrocarbon liquids and […]
In the UK, the 83rd session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 83) was held from April 7-11, 2025 when The “Interim Guidance on the Carriage of Blends of Biofuels and MARPOL Annex I Cargoes by Conventional Bunker Ships” was approved, which allows transportation of blends of not more than […]
In Germany, Sunfire said it is delivering a 10 megawatt electrolyzer at the port of Bilbao to Basque Hydrogen, a consortium led by Petronor – a subsidiary of Repsol – in collaboration with Enagás Renovable and the Ente Vasco de la Energía, the energy agency of the Basque Government. Repsol will use the plant to […]
In the Netherlands, Offshore Energy reported that e-methanol produced at the Kassø Power-to-X facility in Aabenraa, Denmark,has received EU certification for green fuels. The plant’s operator European Energy revealed on April 8 that the Kassø Power-to-X has been certified as producing e-methanol under the EU’s new sustainability framework for renewable fuels. The certification was granted […]
In Japan, Zeon Corporation and Visolis announced that, following the successful completion of a joint feasibility study, the companies are initiating preparatory steps toward construction of a new production facility. The proposed facility, for which multiple sites are being evaluated, is intended to support commercial‐scale manufacturing of bio‐based isoprene and sustainable aviation fuel using Visolis’ […]
In India, SolarQuarter reported that Kundan Green Energy has announced the acquisition of M/S Jabalpur MSW, a waste-to-energy plant that was previously operated and maintained by M/S Essel Group. The Jabalpur Waste-to-Energy plant has capacity of 11.5 MW, and is capable of processing approximately 450 tons of municipal solid waste per day. It is equipped […]
In Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering (MHIEC), a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, said it has completed refurbishment of the core facilities of Eco Clean Plaza Miyazaki, a waste-to-energy plant in Miyazaki city in southern part of Kyushu. The refurbishment, enabling a waste treatment capacity of 579 tonnes per day […]
In Finland, Neste said it has started producing SAF at its renewable products refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The refinery has been modified to enable Neste to produce up to 500,000 tons of SAF per annum. As a result, Neste’s global SAF production capability has increased to 1.5 million tons per annum. “Our SAF production […]
In the Netherlands, Offshore Energy reported that trade association Methanol Institute (MI) has welcomed India’s Deendayal Port Authority (DPA), Kandla, as its newest member. Positioned along the Rotterdam-Singapore Green Shipping Corridor, DPA is reportedly building infrastructure for zero-emission fuel bunkering, piloting green hydrogen and battery-powered tugboats, rolling out SOPs for methanol bunkering and setting up […]
In China, at a recent ceremony, MAN Energy Solutions signed a framework agreement with COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (CHI) regarding their future cooperation on decarbonization retrofit projects. The new framework agreement provides for the retrofitting of existing ships to operation on new alternative fuels like methane, methanol and ammonia – all fuels that […]
