The role of woody biomass in contributing to EU 2020 renewable energy target
The European Union has set ambitious targets of raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources from 20% by 2020 to…
Category: Biofuels
Report explores opportunities and risks of seaweed biofuels in aviation
A new report by Bellona Foundation explores the potential and challenges of using seaweed biofuels in aviation. The report Opportunities and Risks of Seaweed…
Global bioenergies announces the production of 100% renewable ETBE
Global Bioenergies, a French company that is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has announced the production of ETBE…
Leaders of Sustainable Biofuels welcome Commission proposal on advanced biofuels to decarbonise the transport sector
30 November 2016, Brussels: Leaders of Sustainable Biofuels (LSB) welcome the European Commission review of the Renewable Energy Directive, which sets the legislative framework…
World’s first fuel cell-powered vehicle running on bio-ethanol
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced that it is currently researching and developing a Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC)-powered system that runs on bio-ethanol electric power.…
Advanced biofuels and how to scale-up renewables in transport
The transport sector is one of the fastest growing, consumes around one-third of global energy, and offers some of the greatest potential to move…
UPM Biofuels extends sustainability certification to its bio-based products
UPM Biofuels has extended sustainability certification to cover all of its output streams from the Lappeenranta Biorefinery in Finland, under the International Sustainability and Carbon…
Designing effective biofuel policies in Canada
A recent research by Clean Energy Canada, an initiative of the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, assessed the performance of…
MacroFuels – Third Generation Biofuels from Seaweed
In the last decade, seaweed has received increasing interest worldwide as potential source of advanced biofuels production, which has resulted in a considerable attention…
The innovation impact of pilot and demo biofuel plants
Biofuels are considered as an essential tool for the de-carbonization of the transport sector and for the reduction of local air pollution. This is…