In Missouri, grocery prices have increased 21% (from January 2020 to August 2022), and retail fat and oil prices have increased 30% — soybean oil being a key ingredient for frying, baking, margarine, cooking oils and salad dressings. Pair that with soy oil used for biofuel production, which has quadrupled over the past decade, and […]
In Chile, Porsche and its international partners, working in collaboration with the Chilean company Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF), have started the industrial production of synthetic fuels (eFuels). Members of the Board of Management of Porsche AG carried out the refueling ceremony for a Porsche 911 with the first liters of synthetic fuel produced at the facility. eFuels […]
In Canada, Enviva Inc. announced the signing of a new 10-year take-or-pay off-take fuel supply contract with an existing European customer, extendable for up to five years. Enviva expects to supply 800,000 metric tons of industrial-grade wood pellets per year, with deliveries expected to commence during 2027, subject to certain conditions precedent. Terms and conditions related […]
In Spain, Cepsa will produce green hydrogen at its San Roque Energy Park (Cádiz) by reusing recycled water from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). To this end, the company has reached an agreement with the public company Aguas y Servicios del Campo de Gibraltar (Arcgisa) for the supply of recycled water from the urban effluents of […]
In the UK, Rolls-Royce announced it has completed building and is preparing to test its UltraFan®, technology demonstrator. In a major milestone for the program, the demonstrator engine was transported from the build workshop and into Testbed 80 in Derby, UK where it was mounted in preparation for testing. The first test of the demonstrator is […]
In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final analysis of the price of RINs and small refineries. This analysis is issued in response to a recommendation in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) November 2022 report on EPA’s Small Refinery Exemption (SRE) Program (“GAO Report”). In the GAO Report, it was recommended that “the Administrator […]
In India, the Chemical Industry Digest reports India has cut its Goods and Services Tax on ethanol for blending with gasoline to 5% from the previous 18% in an effort to further facilitate blending and achieve the government´s 20% blending target faster. The cabinet committee for economic affairs increased the price paid for ethanol at […]
In California, Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. it has successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant. This significant achievement positions Fulcrum as a renewable fuels leader producing and selling net-zero carbon fuel and addresses climate change by supporting the […]
In Spain, the Repsol Honda trial team have carried out a first test with renewable fuel. Toni Bou and Gabriel Marcelli work with researchers from the Repsol innovation center to produce new renewable fuels with the aim of reducing emissions from their motorcycles by using these fuels, which come from organic waste and emit up […]
In Georgia, Rolls-Royce and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. are leading the way towards sustainable business aviation by conducting the first original equipment manufacturer test flight of an ultralong-range business jet powered by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The test took place on the BR725-powered Gulfstream G650 twin-jet over Gulfstream’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia. Demonstrating that current […]
