In Belgium, Latvia submitted a request to the European Commission to modify its recovery and resilience plan, to which it also wishes to add a REPowerEU chapter. The REPowerEU chapter contains a reform to facilitate the development of renewable energy communities and energy self-generation. The reform also aims at increasing the uptake of sustainable biomethane. […]
In Germany, BASF is expanding its growing portfolio of 14C bio-based monomers with a proprietary process for production of 2-Octyl Acrylate (2-OA). The new product underlines BASF’s strong commitment to innovation for a sustainable future with 73% 14C-tracable bio-based content according to ISO 16620. Besides the regular 14C bio-based 2-Octyl Acrylate, BASF also launched the […]
In California, TeselaGen Biotechnology announces that it is extending their relationship with Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) through 2027 via a new multi-year contract. JBEI, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is one of four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Centers (BRC) that conduct innovative research on biofuels and bioproducts. TeselaGen and […]
In France, in an aviation industry first, VoltAero has flown the proprietary electric-hybrid powertrain for its Cassio family of aircraft with 100% sustainable fuel provided by TotalEnergies. Conducted from VoltAero’s development facility at Royan, France, the milestone flight utilized the hybrid powertrain’s electric mode and its internal combustion engine – which was fueled by TotalEnergies’ […]
In India, the Press Trust of India reports that Indian Oil has launched the country’s first green hydrogen fuel cell bus that emits only water vapor as emissions. IOC’s R&D Center at Faridabad is producing the fuel that the buses run on, which is three times as energy dense as other fuels but without the […]
In France, the B100 Le Champlain is bunkering is produced in France from cooking oils collected from the french food industry, catering outlets and catering trades. It is distributed by ALTENS, a leading French supplier of alternative non-fossil fuels for the transport sector. The whole B100 biofuel production sector is certified by ISCC (International Sustainability […]
In the UK, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) announced an investment into cutting-edge carbon conversion research, with the potential to create more sustainable packaging materials. Set to be carried out by researchers at Swansea University, the project will explore a new way of manufacturing ethylene – one of the key components in plastic, such as […]
In Poland, Orlen will invest $195 million in a 500,000 metric ton per year rapeseed processing plant in Ketrzyn in the northeast that will produce 200,000 tons of oil annually for biodiesel production. The plant’s capacity is for about 1/7 of the national production and it aims to almost entirely domestic rapeseed. Construction is set […]
In Japan, Nagoya University in Japan has developed a technology to convert methane, the principal component of natural gas, into methanol at room temperature in water. They used an enzyme that can be easily mass-produced, offering the possibility of a cheap and effective means to reduce the carbon footprint of natural gas. They published the […]
In Washington, Reuters reports Chinese import data shows a surge in Chinese exports of used cooking oil to the US since two months after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, leading to almost $390 million in UCO exports in the past 12 months. Almost 384,000 metric tons of UCO was imported by the use […]
