Renewable Energy Magazine-Biofuels newsletter

Flying Start for Renewable Fuels Project in Australia

A $2 billion Australian-first project that aims to turn agricultural crop waste into renewable energy and fuels is off to a flying start in maize fields in northern Victoria. The project, a partnership between renewable energy company AgBioEn, La Trobe University and technology company LAB3, will see grains grown for food, and their stalks and waste converted to renewable fuels at a new facility at Katunga near Shepparton.

Shell Invests in SAF Producer LanzaJet

LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, announced that Shell has joined as an investor in the company to advance LanzaJet’s global growth, accelerate commercialization of its technology, and scale the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

Gasum to Supply Finnish Border Guard with Biogas

On April 1, 2021, Gasum delivered a batch of domestic biogas from the company's Turku biogas plant to the Finnish Border Guard in Helsinki. Next up is a batch of liquefied biogas, which will be imported to Helsinki in the coming weeks from Gasum's Risavika production plant in Norway via the company's LNG import terminal in Pori.  

Senators Reintroduce Bill to Recognize Environmental Benefit of Biofuels

 U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Thune (R-SD) reintroduced the Adopt GREET Act, legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update its greenhouse gas modeling for ethanol and biodiesel. Specifically, the bill would require EPA to adopt the Argonne National Lab’s Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) Model for both fuels. EPA would then be required to update its modeling every five years or report to Congress to affirm its modeling is current or otherwise explain why no updates were made.

Eni Acquires FRI-EL Biogas Holding

Eni’s subsidiary Ecofuel, the company responsible for managing Eni’s investments in the circular economy, and FRI-EL Greenpower, a Gostner family holding, leader in the sectors of electricity production from renewable sources, have reached an agreement for Eni to acquire the FRI-EL Biogas Holding company, a leader in the Italian biogas production sector. 

Work Started on the Construction of the Omaezakikou Biomass Power Plant

Omaezakikou Biomass Energy GK, which is managing the RENOVA-led Omaezakikou Biomass power generation project in Omaezaki City and Makinohara City, Shizuoka Prefecture with a generation capacity 74.95MW, has started work on the construction of the Omaezakikou Biomass Power Plant.

World’s first hydrogen cargo vessel set for Paris debut

European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world’s first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris with the vessel’s operations due to start sometime this year.

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