Biofuels

IEA Bioenergy publishes a new report on the potential for advanced biofuels cost reduction

Thursday, 20 February 2020 Robin Whitlock

IEA Bioenergy has published today a new report on the potential for advanced biofuels cost reduction carried out under Task 41 with contributions from Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.

FORGE Receives Investment from Shell Ventures

Tuesday, 18 February 2020 REM FORGE Hydrocarbons, a Canadian biofuel start-up, has received an equity investment from Shell Ventures and a follow-on contribution from Valent Low-Carbon Technologies, which will help build a first-of-its-kind ...

Hapag-Lloyd to Lower CO2 Emissions With Biofuel

Hapag-Lloyd to Lower CO₂ Emissions With Biofuel

Monday, 10 February 2020 REM To reduce the CO2 emissions generated by operating ships, one of Hapag-Lloyd’s ships recently refueled at the port of Rotterdam with a new, eco-friendly biofuel. For the first time, the Montreal Express ...

10th Circuit Strikes Down Waivers, Handing Victory to Ag, Biofuel Groups

Monday, 27 January 2020 Dan McCue

A federal appeals court in Denver, Colorado, struck down small-refinery exemption extensions to three companies, holding the EPA did not have the authority to issue them.

Neste to Deliver SAF to Zurich Airport During the World Economic Forum

Monday, 20 January 2020 REM Neste, the world's largest producer of renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel refined from waste and residues, will deliver renewable jet fuel (sustainable aviation fuel) to Zurich Airport during the ...

Congresswoman Announces GAO Investigation into EPA’s Misuse of Small Refinery Exemptions

Monday, 13 January 2020 REM Today, Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, announced that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) had responded to a letter written by bipartisan members of the House Biofuels Caucus, including Rep. Axne ...

Agility Fuel Solutions Makes History in India with Long Distance CNG Buses

Monday, 13 January 2020 REM Dharmendra Pradhan, India’s minister for petroleum and natural gas, launched India’s first long distance compressed natural gas (CNG) bus on December 24, 2019, under a strategic program led by Indraprastha ...

New Funding to Boost UK Biofuel Industry

Wednesday, 01 January 2020 REM Household waste, unused straw from farmland and old wood will be among the unusual components used by four world-leading UK-based plants to produce green fuels with support from newly-announced government ...

Biotech Breakthrough Turns Waste Biomass into Biofuel

Thursday, 19 December 2019 REM A move towards a more sustainable bio-based economy has been given a boost by researchers at the University of Manchester who have been able to simplify a process to transform waste materials into biofuels ...

Neste to Supply KLM With SAF for Flights Out of Schiphol

Tuesday, 10 December 2019 REM KLM has purchased sustainable aviation fuel for flights out of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The sustainable fuel is produced by Neste from used cooking oil and will reduce CO2 emissions by up to 80 percent ...