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CropEnergies, the Germany-based operator of the UK's biggest operating bioethanol plant, has reported increased profits on the back of year-on-year production increases.
Australia’s biofuels lobby is pushing the country’s government to co-ordinate a clear strategy for the sector, including the introduction of an E10 bioethanol blend and incentives for advanced biofuels for use in transport.
Biofuels will have a major role to play in helping to limit the carbon footprint of ships, a major study released this week has found, but any detailed discussion of alternative fuels won’t be on the agenda when the UN’s shipping agency meets for an important environmental meeting next week.
Certificate prices for Year 10 and Year 11 fell for the third successive week, as the weight of available biofuel supply further tightened the theoretical cap on ticket prices.
Commodities producer and trader Bunge is to cut production at its 120,000 mt/year capacity biodiesel plant in Mannheim, Germany in response to a flood of imports, the company confirmed in an email.
UK gas distributor Calor is claiming Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates for liquified petroleum gas (LPG) created from biomethane generated in the Netherlands, breaking new ground for the UK’s renewables incentives scheme.
Italy’s government will launch its €4.7 billion ($5.8 billion) biomethane in road transport scheme by early June in a bid to drive transport emissions down, the civil servant in charge of the scheme told Energy Census.
Year 11 certificates were heard trading at 16.25 p/certificate, according to market sources, in a week in which activity remained somewhat muted and the headlines were grabbed by rising oil prices and compressed biodiesel premiums.
A Dutch court will next week rule on whether Cofco International acted legally when it seized the bank accounts, art collections and property belonging to the former owners of Nidera – a soft commodities and biofuels trader it bought outright in 2017 – amid allegations of improper accounting.
Municipal solid waste can be used to make a new high performance biofuel that burns much more efficiently than those currently available, Canadian biofuels producer Enerkem said this week.
A Germany-based biodiesel plant owned by US agribusiness conglomerate ADM has been mothballed in the wake of weak prices and a flood of cheap imports from Argentina and Indonesia, which are no longer subject to EU import duties.
The EU’s removal of duties on biodiesel imports placed on 13 Argentine and Indonesian producers following the end of legal proceedings at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will only be temporary, said a consultant with an Argentinian biofuels lobby Carbio.
Spain's consumption of biodiesel increased 18.1% year-on-year as a higher blending mandate and an improving economy provided benign conditions for demand.
Democrats in US Congress have introduced two companion bills to dismantle the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and provide incentives and thresholds for advanced, cellulosic, and biomass-based diesel fuels.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is to consider extending the state’s Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) by ten years to 2030 and double the emissions reduction target from a 10% reduction in 2020 to 20% by 2030.
Domestic air travel in Sweden could be powered by biofuels produced from the country’s plentiful forest residues rather than regular jet fuel, amid claims of a breakthrough in new research published this week.
Brazil’s biggest sugar and ethanol trader Copersucar expects 2018/19 ethanol output from the center-south cane crop to grow by 5.4% to 27.5 billion litres, despite a smaller regional crop versus last season.
Another week in which activity for UK RTFCs bordered on the theoretical rather than the actual, as Year 10 certificates remained on the shelf while Year 11 at least generated some buying and selling price information.
Argentina’s decision to extend the exemption on biodiesel duties could open up new markets for domestic output, according to a consultant with Argentine biofuels chamber Carbio, told Agricensus.
The week started with the RTFO being signed off in the House of Lords in the final step prior to its acceptance onto the statute books.