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The EU’s potential exclusion of palm oil from the bloc’s recast of its renewable energy directive may not secure the backing of member states seeking lucrative export contracts with Malaysia and Indonesia – the world’s biggest producers of the biofuel commodity.
Year 10 and 11 certificates remained under pressure as February arrived, although a slightly softer tone to mineral oil prices left space for biodiesel premiums to firm marginally relieving some of the pressure from the theoretical certificate cap.
The EU Commission is to launch an investigation whether producers of Argentinian biofuels – predominantly soy methyl ester (SME) – have benefitted from subsidies, according to a log in the EU Official Journal, a move that could lead to higher tariffs on imports.
China is likely to sharply increase its imports of palm oil from Malaysia, a move that could soften the blow for producers of a proposed exclusion of the crop for use towards the EU’s renewable energy scheme from 2021-2030.
The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt said this week that the country's biofuels strategy needs major revision in view of the recent bankruptcy of a Pennsylvania oil refiner.
Indonesia is expected to file a case by February 3 against the US over anti-subsidy duties that were placed on Indonesian biodiesel shipments, an official with the South-East Asian country's trade ministry said on Friday.
The world’s first dedicated biofueled flight between Australia and the US took off on 30 January, using a 10% mix of non-edible mustard seeds, part of a wider initiative to grow the country’s first commercial aviation biofuel seed crop by 2020.
The UK government has issued 827 million Road Transport Fuel Certificates (RTFCs) so far in the year 10 compliance period, according to data released Thursday by the Department for Transport (DfT).
The use of biofuels in jet fuel might not necessarily reduce global warming from contrails emitted by aircraft, according to a new academic study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prices in the UK’s Renewable Transport Fuel Certificate market saw hefty falls through the course of the week, with market sources seeing values arc downwards from levels around 19p last week to trade at 15.8p by Wednesday.
Germany’s biodiesel industry is waiting with baited breath for a court decision that could give municipal governments a mandate to ban or restrict diesel vehicles, an outcome that may hasten the shift towards petrol cars and impact the country’s renewable fuel targets.
based biofuels after the WTO ruled that the bloc had acted inconsistently with trade rules.
Spain’s consumption of biodiesel increased 12% in the first eight months of 2017 as the country stepped up its blending requirements, although falling diesel car sales last year are likely to have slowed demand for biodiesel compared with a business-as-usual scenario, government data released last week shows.
Producers and traders of biofuels will likely have to wait until November to find out what caps the EU will place on using first generation biofuels, the European Parliament’s lead MEP on the file told an industry conference on Monday, saying flagship EU policy to revise its renewable energy targets, including those in transport, will take months to finalise.
Philadelphia Energy Solutions, one of the largest oil refiners in the eastern US, is trying to extricate itself from bankruptcy proceedings related to its biofuels obligations under the US Renewable Fuel Standard.
Last week the EU Parliament passed a bill to amend the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), legislation that will set renewable energy targets for the European Union for the next 12 years.
Major biofuel producing nations are using the UN’s aviation agency to push for weaker rules on biofuel use after 2023 at the same time that the EU is discussing whether to ban feedstocks such as palm oil from the bloc’s renewable energy sectors.
The EU’s biofuels industry is having to demonstrate a higher threshold for greenhouse gas emissions reductions compared with standard fossil fuels, a lobby group has reminded industry participants ahead of industry conference in Berlin next week.
Changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) will be pushed through parliament and will likely be in effect by the end of January, opposition MP Nic Dakin told Energy Census on Friday.
EU lawmakers have backed proposals to ban palm oil based biofuels from being used as part of the bloc’s renewable energy targets after 2021, and voted for a cap on additional capacity in crop-based biofuels.