In North Dakota, ADM and Marathon Petroleum Corp., along with local, state and federal policymakers, celebrated the groundbreaking for North Dakota’s first dedicated soybean processing facility which will be supplied exclusively to Marathon as feedstock for approximately 75 million gallons of annual renewable diesel and is expected to be online by the 2023 harvest. By […]
In the Netherlands, the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s own carbon emissions should be 75% lower in 2025 and 90% lower in 2030 than in 2019. To this end, the Port Authority will ensure that all its vessels will switch completely to biofuel in the short term, and it has the ambition that from 2025 new […]
In Canada, Greenlane was awarded a contract for CAN$8.7 million (US$6.8 million) for a dairy manure to RNG project in the United States owned by an international energy company. Greenlane will supply its membrane separation biogas upgrading system, with order fulfillment expected to commence immediately. This contract win marks the third project within 18 months […]
In Washington, D.C., June 30, 2022 is the last day to sign up for the 2022 Census of Agriculture which is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them and is taken once every five years. The ag census, conducted for over 180 years, remains the only source of […]
In Germany, Lhyfe received approval from the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd (Baden-Württemberg) to start construction of its renewable hydrogen plant by water electrolysis on an industrial site of about 10,000 m2 with an expected operational date of early 2024. A production site for renewable green hydrogen by water electrolysis with a capacity of up to […]
In Spain, Repsol and Iberia took another step in their alliance to reduce emissions in the airline industry with the first long-haul flights using biofuel produced in Spain from biological waste. The biojet fuel used is from a batch produced in 2021 at Repsol’s Petronor refinery in Bilbao. The first flight to use biofuel was […]
In Georgia, GranBio secured the unopposed confirmation of European Patent No. EP 3259360, originally granted on August 25, 2021. The European patent has been successfully validated by GranBio in 31 countries for patent protection: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, […]
In Japan, Airbus Helicopters in Japan and Japan’s leading helicopter operator Nakanihon Air (NNK) have jointly performed the country’s first ever helicopter flight powered with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). NNK’s H215 helicopter conducted a 30-minute flight at Nagoya Airport in Aichi Prefecture. The aircraft was fueled with 600 liters of “SUSTEO 10”, a renewable jet […]
In the Netherlands, Albert Heijn, together with its partners, is accelerating the sustainability of transport to stores and customers. From the end of 2022, both the home delivery of groceries and the supplies to the shops in the center of The Hague will be 100% electric. Rotterdam, Utrecht and Amsterdam follow. For customers and local […]
In Texas, Southwest Airlines Co. announced an investment into SAFFiRE Renewables, LLC (SAFFiRE), a company formed by D3MAX, LLC (D3MAX), as part of a Department of Energy (DOE)-backed project to develop and produce scalable, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Funded with a DOE grant matched by Southwest’s investment, SAFFiRE is expected to utilize technology developed by […]
