HIF Global has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Airbus to advance the global development of e-Fuels for aviation ("e-sustainable aviation fuel" or "e-SAF") via the methanol to jet fuel (MTJ) pathway.
Neste Corp. on July 25 released second quarter results, reporting that operational performance at the company’s facilities was solid during the three-month period despite a very challenging market environment for renewables.
Valero Energy Corp. released Q2 financial results on July 25, reporting strong performance for both its ethanol and renewable diesel segments. The company’s SAF project in Texas remains on track to begin operations later this year.
Firefly Green Fuels and Synagro Technologies Inc. have partnered to bring Firefly’s novel fuel-production techniques to the U.S. market. Synagro has agreed to be the exclusive supplier of the biosolids feedstock used in Firefly’s innovative process.
Neste has commissioned terminal capacity at ONEOK’s terminal in Houston for blending and storing its SAF. Neste now has approximately 33.6 million gallons of SAF storage capacity at the facility with direct connection to pipeline infrastructure.
LanzaJet on July 24 announced a strategic investment from Airbus. The investment enables LanzaJet to continue to build its capability and capacity to scale its proprietary ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) process technology.
Boeing has released guidance to defense customers that company-built military aircraft can operate on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at currently approved limits of up to 50% blend with conventional fuel.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has launched $1 billion fiscal year (FY) 2025 funding opportunity that could help U.S. airports develop infrastructure to increase access to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Cargill has surpassed the 50% completion milestone in the construction of its new canola facility located in West Regina, Saskatchewan. The new facility will produce canola oil for food and biofuels markets and canola meal for animal feed.
The DOE has announced its intent to fund partnerships between industry stakeholders and Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium researchers. The partnerships will address the cost and risk impacts of feedstock and process variability.
Nearly 2.04 billion RINs were generated under the RFS in June, down from 2.06 billion generated during the same month of last year. Total RIN generation for the first half of 2024 reached 12.07 billion.
On July 17, Clean Fuels Alliance America delivered a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. EPA for its failure to issue timely 2026 Renewable Fuel Standards. EPA is required to finalize volumes 14 months before the start of the compliance year.
Production capacity of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the U.S. could increase from around 2,000 barrels per day (b/d) to nearly 30,000 b/d in 2024 if all announced capacity additions come on line.
American Airlines consumed 2.7 million gallons of SAF in 2023, according to its 2023 Sustainability Report. While that volume of SAF use was up 4% when compared to 2022, it accounted for less than 1% of total fuel use during the year.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) on July 11 announced up to $36 million in funding to develop technologies to lower nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions by 50% from the cultivation of corn and sorghum used for U.S. ethanol production.
USGC staff and representatives traveled to Vancouver, Canada, in June to join Advanced Biofuels Canada in hosting a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) policy roundtable on the sidelines of a USDA agribusiness trade mission.
The U.S. DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office has released a RFI on renewable propane production technologies and uses to better understand the supply chains for production and uses of renewable propane and other renewable gaseous intermediates.
The International Air Transport Association has called on South Africa to mobilize its experience, resources, and infrastructure to accelerate the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production.
Vattenfall and Shell have decided to pause their collaboration in the HySkies electrofuel project while Vattenfall continues the search for new partners to join potential industry decarbonization developments in the Forsmark region of Sweden.
Neste will supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Hotelplan Group, a globally active Swiss travel group in the leisure and business travel sector, to enable Hotelplan to expand the use of SAF across the whole group.
Shell plc on July 2 announced it will temporarily pause on-site construction work on a biorefinery in the Netherlands “to address project delivery and ensure future competitiveness given current market conditions.”
LanzaJet on June 25 announced an investment from MUFG.The investment enables LanzaJet to continue building its capability and capacity to deploy its proprietary ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) process technology.
Air New Zealand in late June received a shipment of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into Wellington, its first delivery to the nation's capital city and another small step towards its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The USDA announced improvements to the camelina pilot crop insurance program for the 2025 and succeeding crop years. USDA’s RMA is expanding coverage options by allowing enterprise units and increasing maximum coverage levels.
Phillips 66 on June 26 announced that its Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex in California is operating at full capacity, producing 50,000 barrels per day (800 MMgy) of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
LanzaTech Global Inc. and LanzaJet Inc. are launching CirculAir, a new joint offering to convert waste, carbon, and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and immediately accelerate decarbonization of the aviation industry globally.
MAIRE announces that KT - Kinetics Technology, also leveraging the technological know-how of NEXTCHEM, has been awarded by HOLBORN Europa Raffinerie GmbH an EPC project to develop an HVO complex inside the existing HOLBORN’s refinery in Hamburg, Germany.
MAIRE S.p.A. announces that NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiary MyRechemical, has signed a licensing contract to provide its proprietary NX Circular gasification technology to DG Fuels Louisiana, a proposed 450 MMgy SAF plant.
The Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Coalition has welcomed 10 new companies and organizations involved in the development and deployment of SAF into its membership, bringing its total count to more than 50.
The Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority—in partnership with Avfuel Corp. and the airport’s fixed base operator (FBO), Red Rock Aviation—has announced Sedona Airport now offers an emissions-reducing fuel option: SAF.
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