In Brazil, Platts reports that increased demand for biodiesel blending domestically has soaked up a lot of surplus soybean oil that would have typically been available for export. US Foreign Agricultural Service data showed that despite a record soybean crop last season, export availability of soybean oil remained steady at 1.3 million metric tons. Oil […]
In Washington, most US biofuel production numbers are clearly on track to end the first quarter of this year in negative territory either on a quarter-over-quarter or year-over-year basis, Rystad Energy analysis suggests. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the updated statistics for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program on March 20 covering the […]
In Spain, Bloomberg reports that bp has taken the decision to pause investment in sustainable aviation fuel production expansion at its Castellon oil refinery, a project that was announced part of a wider $2.2 billion decarbonization plan back in 2023. A source told Bloomberg that the decision was taken because the SAF market wasn’t growing […]
In Iowa, American Power Group Corporation says its vehicular dual fuel solution can generate significantly low carbon emissions when displacing diesel fuel with dairy manure renewable natural gas (“RNG”). APG delivers low carbon fueling results on existing Class 8 diesel engines when utilizing its vehicular dual fuel solution and displacing 50-60% of fossil diesel consumption […]
In Spain, XFuel’s European Innovation Council Accelerator project, ROW2FUEL, was awarded €7.7M blended finance from the October 2024 call to bring their sustainable transportation fuel to market. XFuel owns two proprietary technologies to produce high-grade transportation fuel from all types of scalable waste material: Chemical liquid refining (CLR) that refines and cracks hydrocarbon liquids and […]
In the UK, the 83rd session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 83) was held from April 7-11, 2025 when The “Interim Guidance on the Carriage of Blends of Biofuels and MARPOL Annex I Cargoes by Conventional Bunker Ships” was approved, which allows transportation of blends of not more than […]
In Germany, Sunfire said it is delivering a 10 megawatt electrolyzer at the port of Bilbao to Basque Hydrogen, a consortium led by Petronor – a subsidiary of Repsol – in collaboration with Enagás Renovable and the Ente Vasco de la Energía, the energy agency of the Basque Government. Repsol will use the plant to […]
In the Netherlands, Offshore Energy reported that e-methanol produced at the Kassø Power-to-X facility in Aabenraa, Denmark,has received EU certification for green fuels. The plant’s operator European Energy revealed on April 8 that the Kassø Power-to-X has been certified as producing e-methanol under the EU’s new sustainability framework for renewable fuels. The certification was granted […]
In Japan, Zeon Corporation and Visolis announced that, following the successful completion of a joint feasibility study, the companies are initiating preparatory steps toward construction of a new production facility. The proposed facility, for which multiple sites are being evaluated, is intended to support commercial‐scale manufacturing of bio‐based isoprene and sustainable aviation fuel using Visolis’ […]
In India, SolarQuarter reported that Kundan Green Energy has announced the acquisition of M/S Jabalpur MSW, a waste-to-energy plant that was previously operated and maintained by M/S Essel Group. The Jabalpur Waste-to-Energy plant has capacity of 11.5 MW, and is capable of processing approximately 450 tons of municipal solid waste per day. It is equipped […]
