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Jet engine maker GE Aviation has started testing jet engine combustor components with a jet fuel using US firm Gevo’s renewable alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ).
The area of crops used for biofuels saw an increase of 40% between 2015/16 and 2016/17, according to data released last week by the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
A further bout of pressure came to RTFC prices at the end of the week, with trades heard done in the region of 20p for Year 10, and bids retreating to levels around 19.5p for both Year 10 and Year 11.
Trading in the UK’s Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates has slowed as market participants grow increasingly concerned about delays to the introduction of the government’s proposed changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, the scheme underpinning the UK’s renewable transport fuel.
All cities and provinces in Vietnam will stop selling RON 92 gasoline (also known as A92) by the end of December and start selling 5% bioethanol (E5) across the country from January 1, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said this week.
Celtic Renewables, a Scottish company that wants to produce next generation biofuels, said this week it plans to build a biobutanol plant using whisky residue.
Ongoing talks between competing corn and oil industries on US’ Renewable Fuels Program have helped prompted a fall in renewable fuel (D6) credits.
Ireland has launched a consultation on raising the percentage of biofuels that are used in the country’s road transport in a bid to meet 2020 renewable fuels targets.
While winter blending remained the backdrop to the UK’s certificate market, and consequently the natural appetite for certificates remained largely muted, participants could discern signs of trading interest returning after a prolonged period of stand-off.
US ethanol production topped 1.1 million barrels a day for the first time, while stock levels rose by half a million barrels, data released by the US Energy Information Administration for the week ending December 1 showed this week.
Lobbyists are gearing up for a fresh round of talks between EU member states on the share of crop-based biofuels in transport that should be used between 2020 and 2030, with the focus broadening from the EU Parliament to the EU Council.
Vivergo said this week it will cease bioethanol production at its £350 million Saltend plant in north-eastern England — just five years after it started production over what it claims is government inaction to mandate a 10% blend of ethanol in fuel sold in the UK.
US President Donald Trump would consider reforms of biofuels policy as long as jobs are protected in refining and agriculture sectors, according to senators who met with the president this week.
BP Biofuels and Brazilian sugar and ethanol trader Copersucar have agreed a joint venture to own and operate an ethanol storage terminal in Sao Paulo State.
A BP statement said the new terminal would "better and flexibly" connect ethanol production with Brazil's main fuels markets
With November 30 marking the final stage for reconciliation of Year 9 certificates, trading ceased in that field, leaving Year 10 and Year 11 facing still idle demand and downward pressure on prices.
The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that refiners will have to blend slightly more biofuels in their transport fuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard for the next two years - a move that was hailed as a victory for the biofuel industry.
Exports of used cooking oil from China have nearly trebled in the first nine months of the year compared to the previous corresponding period, reaching 217,206 mt from January through September versus 75,434 mt in the previous nine months.
The final committee vote on the EU’s controversial amendments to the Renewable Energy Directive has proposed hiking up the bloc’s renewable energy target and imposing a separate biofuel blend target.
Brazil’s Congress has cleared its RenovaBio biofuel programme in the first step towards bolstering the country’s biofuel credentials.