Category: Fuels

Argent Energy launches Europe’s largest bio-based, technical-grade glycerine facility in Port of Amsterdam

Argent Energy launches Europe’s largest bio-based, technical-grade glycerine facility in Port of Amsterdam

October 3, 2024 |

In the Netherlands, Argent Energy officially launched Europe’s largest facility dedicated to producing bio-based, technical-grade glycerine at its Port of Amsterdam site. The state-of-the-art refinery will upgrade crude glycerine, a by-product of Argent’s waste-based biodiesel process, into 99.7% pure technical-grade glycerine.  This development, set to produce 50,000 tons of bio-based glycerine, provides chemical producers, for […]

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Ence Biogas aims to produce 1TWh of biomethane production by 2030

Ence Biogas aims to produce 1TWh of biomethane production by 2030

October 3, 2024 |

In Spain, Ence Biogas expects to reach a biomethane production of 1TWh in 2030 working with agricultural biomass, livestock and agri-food industry. For its part, the company expects to close this year 2024 reached 14 projects in environmental processing mainly in Castilla y León, Aragon, Catalonia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. This was announced by the […]

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BASF launches low carbon intensity crops program for corn destined for ethanol

BASF launches low carbon intensity crops program for corn destined for ethanol

October 3, 2024 |

In North Carolina, BASF has launched xarvio BIOENERGY, an innovative low carbon intensity crops program that lowers, tracks and documents CI levels in corn grown for ethanol biofuel production in the U.S. xarvio BIOENERGY offers the biofuel production supply chain – growers, retail agronomists and biorefineries – a quality assured and complete, end-to-end solution. It […]

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Global Biomass Resource Assessment launched by Biofuture Platform Initiative

Global Biomass Resource Assessment launched by Biofuture Platform Initiative

October 3, 2024 |

In Brazil, a multi-country, government-led initiative dedicated to advancing the global transition to a sustainable, bio-based economy, unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world. The launch of the International Feedstocks data portal was announced by the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Platform Initiative at an […]

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Vitagro successfully injects biomethane into Ukrainian gas grid

Vitagro successfully injects biomethane into Ukrainian gas grid

October 2, 2024 |

In the Ukraine, VITAGRO Group has successfully injected the first Ukrainian biomethane into the gas transportation system. This is a milestone for Ukraine, unlocking opportunities for the export of eco-friendly biofuel. The VITAGRO plant in the Khmelnytskyi region is supplying biomethane into the GTS at 60-70% of the planned volumes, approximately 6,000 cubic meters daily. […]

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RWE buys 23% of UK’s Future Biogas

RWE buys 23% of UK’s Future Biogas

October 2, 2024 |

In the UK, Future Biogas announced that its majority owner, 3i Infrastructure plc (“3i Infrastructure”) has signed an agreement to syndicate c.23% of its stake in Future Biogas to RWE Energy Transition Investments (“RWE”), an investment vehicle of RWE Supply & Trading GmbH, the energy trading arm of global renewable energy company RWE AG. Completion […]

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Ara Partners teams with HF Capital on $725M decarbonization fund

Ara Partners teams with HF Capital on $725M decarbonization fund

October 2, 2024 |

In Massachusetts, Ara Partners, a global private equity and infrastructure firm that is decarbonizing the industrial economy, announced the launch of a new strategy, Ara Energy Decarbonization, to decarbonize conventional energy assets across North America. Ara Energy Decarbonization is being launched in partnership with the Haslam family through its family office, HF Capital. The Haslam […]

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Thai coalition to create UCO supply chain for domestic SAF

Thai coalition to create UCO supply chain for domestic SAF

October 2, 2024 |

In Thailand, Bangchak and BSGF Co., Ltd., together with New Biodiesel and Thanachok Vegetable Oil (2012) Co., Ltd. recently signed a memorandum of understanding to create a domestic sustainable aviation fuel supply chain with used cooking oil as feedstock. New Biodiesel, a leading expert in palm oil production and collection of used cooking oil in […]

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Comstock licences NREL and MIT tech for cellulosic SAF production

Comstock licences NREL and MIT tech for cellulosic SAF production

October 2, 2024 |

In Nevada, Comstock Inc. announced the execution by Comstock’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Comstock IP Holdings LLC, of an Exclusive License Agreement and Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, the managing and operating contractor of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory involving technologies developed by NREL and the Massachusetts […]

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Illinois invests $6M in Crysalis Biosciences’ $239.5M SAF plant

Illinois invests $6M in Crysalis Biosciences’ $239.5M SAF plant

October 2, 2024 |

In Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker, Crysalis Biosciences Inc. and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced a Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois (REV Illinois) agreement for Crysalis’ $239.5 million investment to develop a first-of-its-kind sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant. The investment, which creates at least 35 new jobs in Sauget, will […]

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