U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has announced the introduction of a new bipartisan bill that would prohibit the use of taxpayer money to subsidise biofuels produced using imported foreign feedstocks, such as waste cooking oil from China and ethanol from Brazil. The bill would also extend the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit. 45Z Clean Fuel […]
Repsol has 600 petrol stations supplying 100% renewable fuel in the Iberian Peninsula, including 550 in Spain and 50 in Portugal. This achievement fulfils the target set by Repsol in its 2024-’27 strategic update to reach 600 stations using 100% renewable Nexa diesel by the end of the year. The energy company plans to expand […]
Indonesia’s Chief Economy Minister said on Friday that the country will continue to work on the implementation of the B40 biodiesel programme from January 1 next year, compared to the B35 currently used in Indonesia. Minister Airlangga Hartarto said the implementation of B40 was Indonesia’s ‘concrete contribution’ to the world as it could reduce carbon […]
Buses at IOV Ilmenau in Germany were successfully run and tested with pure biodiesel fatty acid methyl ester (FAME). A project initiated by AGQM Biodiesel examined IOV Ilmenau’s fleet of B100 buses, focusing on the buses’ engine oils and analysing them in depth. The results were encouraging and satisfactory.
Pakistan Petroleum and Retail Operations Public Company Limited (PTTOR) has announced the adjustment of the proportion of biodiesel in regular high speed diesel from B7 to B5. The adjustment is in response to the Energy Policy Management Committee’s decision to link the prevailing price of crude oil to domestic palm oil stocks and the new […]
China’s ministry of finance and the state administration of taxation announced Nov. 15 that starting Dec. 1, the 13 percent export-tax rebate on used cooking oil (UCO) would be discontinued. Leading biobased diesel producers in China have long advocated for this change, arguing that the tax rebate undermines the country’s interests by favoring UCO exports […]
Under the Waste Framework Directive (WFD), the collection of biowaste will be mandatory in EU Member States from 1 January 2024 onwards. However, current biowaste collection in the EU-27 (plus Norway and the UK) is only 5,112,788 metric tonnes per year, which is 26% below the theoretical potential. The vast majority of biowaste (garden and […]
Solarig announced on 22 November that it is moving forward with the development of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project that will produce more than 400,000 tonnes of SAF per year in Spain. Specifically, Solarig announced on 22 November the development of an SAF project in Teruel.The project, called Turboleta SAF, will have an annual […]
Danish shipping company Norden announced on 26 November that it has entered into an agreement with Meta on sustainable marine fuels, with the aim of advancing the decarbonisation of the maritime industry. In an environment of limited biofuel supply, Norden’s emission reduction solutions offer a way to decarbonise maritime cargo. The emissions reduction solution followed […]
The UK SAF mandate has been signed into law and will come into effect on New Year’s Day. The SAF obligation will start at 2 per cent of the UK’s total aviation fuel requirements and increase linearly to 10 per cent by 2030 and then to 22 per cent by 2040. From 2040, the obligation […]