Coffee chains create a lot of waste, from disposable takeaway cups to the used grounds that are sent to rot in landfills. Starbucks (SBUX) has started to trial recyclable alternatives to the disposable cups. But the used coffee is often overlooked. UK startup Bio-bean thinks it has found a way to turn that waste into […]
In 2019 the Netherlands’ energy consumption from renewable sources grew by 16 percent compared to the year before. A total of 181 petajoules of the country’s energy came from renewable sources. More than half of that increase was due to more biomass, mainly due to power plants using more biodiesel and biogasoline, Statistics Netherlands reported […]
A South Yorkshire biofuel provider has secured funding from HSBC UK to enable it to supply NHS hospitals during the Covid-19 outbreak. Barnsley-based BioFuels & Oils supplies biofuel to power generators at NHS hospitals across the UK. The funding from HSBC UK will ensure the company can keep backup generators at hospitals fuelled with a […]
An EU-funded project aiming to develop low-cost biofuel bunkers has officially got underway this month. The IDEALFUEL consortium is being led by the EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TU/e) and includes several collaborators including WINTERTHUR GAS & DIESEL and VARO ENERGY NETHERLANDS B.V.. The project has received a €5 MILLION grant from the EUROPEAN UNION’s HORIZON2020 […]
The Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) has in recent weeks circulated its bioenergy proposals to representatives across the political spectrum. The organisation is lobbying for Ireland’s Programme for Government to incorporate bioenergy measures and support to assist economic recovery, emissions reduction targets and climate action. Ireland has a “considerable natural advantage” when it comes to growing […]
The 49,646 deadweight tonne (dwt) MR tanker received the first delivery of Bio Fuel Oil during its recent call at the Port of Rotterdam. The fuel, which GoodFuels launched in 2018, reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 83% and substantially reduces SOx emissions. The trial was completed on the Stena Immortal as she ran on a […]
Thanks to factors such as agricultural fertilizer runoff, Sargassum seaweed is growing out of control in many regions – it washes up on beaches in huge amounts. Utilizing a new technique, that rotting organic matter could soon be converted into biofuels and other products. Ordinarily, the processing of seaweed involves straining it out of salt […]
Bavarian ship management company Minship and its subsidiary Minmarine have announced that a bulk carrier in their fleet of managed vessels, Trudy, has successfully bunkered biofuel at the Port of Rotterdam. The biofuel bunkered by the 2009-built, 30,790dwt bulk carrier was GoodFuels’ sustainable Bio-fuel Oil MR1-100: which is a second generation sustainable biofuel produced from […]
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the provision of $100 million (€90.2 million) for infrastructure projects to encourage increased sales of higher biofuel blends. The funding, which will be awarded through the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP), was announced by US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. Higher biofuel blends include ethanol blends […]
After years of fighting their own political battles, advocates of ethanol and electric vehicles are tentatively uniting against a shared enemy – fossil fuels. More than two dozen organisations have come together for nearly two years in Minnesota to work on a “technologically neutral, policy proposal to decarbonise transportation, which has overtaken electricity production as […]