In Italy, Poste Italiane’s ground and air fleet will run on biofuels supplied by Enilive, Eni’s company dedicated to mobility services and products. This will accelerate Poste Italiane’s progress towards achieving its energy transition and carbon neutrality goals set for 2030. Giuseppe Lasco, General Manager of Poste Italiane, and Giuseppe Ricci, Energy Evolution Chief Operating […]
In Iowa, Verbio has commenced the commercial production of corn-based ethanol at its biorefinery facility in Nevada, Iowa. The plant underwent a thorough commissioning process over the past six months resulting in the successful start of bioethanol production. The completion of this second phase of the Nevada plant`s strategy in the US market is the […]
In Washington Brownfield Ag News reports ethanol production hit a record high last week at 1.109 million barrels per day, up 44,000 bpd on the year, and 14,000 compared to the week prior. The previous record was slightly lower at 1.108 million in December 2017. Stocks are at a 10 week high of 23.973 million […]
In Italy, Verdalia Bioenergy, backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s infrastructure unit, has acquired four biomethane plants in the northern Italian regions of Piedmont and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The plants, which will be operational between Q4 2025 and Q2 2026, will have a total annual production capacity of approximately 230 GWh of biomethane deriving from the […]
In Japan, project sponsors MAEDA CORPORATION, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (JAPEX), Yonden Business Co.,Inc., and SHINKO DENSO co., ltd jointly announced that the Ozu Biomass Power Plant has achieved Commercial Operation Date (COD) as scheduled on August 1, 2024. The power plant is a biomass-only thermal power plant using wood pellets as fuel. With […]
In Minnesota, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) released an environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) for a new facility proposed by Dem-Con that will process organic materials through anaerobic digesters at its environmental campus in Shakopee, Minnesota. The proposed facility includes two anaerobic digesters that will process up to 75,419 tons per year of organic materials […]
In New York state, JetBlue and World Fuel Services announced a new commercial agreement to bring the first regular supply of Blended Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), provided by Valero Marketing and Supply Company (Valero), a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) as early as the fourth quarter of 2024. […]
In Brazil, beef tallow and pork grease from JBS operations in the United States, Canada, and Australia is being transformed into low carbon intensity fuels for the transportation and shipping sectors. In the past two years, JBS has directed 1.2 million tons of human inedible animal residuals towards the production Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and […]
In Germany, Clariant and OMV announced their intended collaboration for the supply of ethylene with a lower carbon footprint. In response to increasing consumer demand for more sustainable options, and with a particular focus on Europe, this partnership will help both companies meet their sustainability targets and deliver on the carbon reduction strategies of their […]
In Singapore, Google, PacificLight Energy (PLE) and Rexus Bioenergy (RExus) have entered into a 10-year collaboration under which PacificLight will offtake renewable energy generated from RExus’s Waste Wood-to-Energy (WWtE) Plant and supply it to Google. The renewable energy generated by the new WWtE plant will be certified under the International Renewable Energy Certificate (I-REC) standard. […]
