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Calls for clarity on recent Budget announcements

...lobby the Government on this as losing the red diesel rebate could cost the UK construction industry several millions a year.” A lack of support for biofuels and home energy...

Interview

Celebrating 50 years of innovation

...and, therefore, the advent of new fuels to reduce tailpipe emissions, the company has developed a fuel quality division to deal with the problems arising from modern biofuels which can...
Trafigura Greenergy acquisition

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Trafigura to acquire Greenergy’s Canadian operations

...Biofuel supplier Founded in 1992 to supply diesel with lower emissions, Greenergy is today one of Europe’s largest suppliers of biofuels with manufacturing plants in the UK and the Netherlands...
The winning car from the 2023 Formula Student UK competition

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Formula Student to use all sustainable fuels in 2024

...compared to fossil fuel-based equivalents. Both are second-generation advanced biofuels, created from agricultural waste, and have been designed to be a drop-in solution, meaning that student teams do not need...

Analysis

Harvest Energy – change, challenge and opportunity

...of the council business. Controlling biofuel quality  Looking to the future, Harvest has invested in a 250,000 metric tonnes biofuels plant at Seal Sands on Teesside.  “The plant gives us...
Looking at the challenge of ensuring that HVO is a genuinely sustainable future fuel

Knowledge

HVO – The issue of sustainability

...It is as important to consider the environmental and human rights issues around Lithium extraction for batteries as it is to consider the carbon intensity of transporting biofuels from production...
An in-depth consideration of the latest BP Energy Outlook

Insight

BP OUTLOOK 2023: the outlook for global energy to 2050

...financing and building of new capacity. The use of modern biofuels – modern solid biomass, biofuels and biomethane – will grow rapidly, helping to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors and processes. Low...

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Future energy – a vital topic

...created BP Alternative Energy to focus on solar, wind, biofuels and carbon sequestration and storage.  Asked why she had created a renewable business within an oil company, she pointed out...

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Further support for HVO in Northern Ireland

...of biofuels offers a seamless transition for existing liquid fuel users; a simple option for government to maximise carbon emission reductions in the off-grid sector at least cost for consumers...
UM Terminals Phil McEvoy

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UM Terminals invests millions in its Liverpool terminal

...oils, fertiliser and key growth areas of biofuels and biofuel feed stocks. The company is also underway transferring across to low carbon tank heating technology, part of the wider UM...

Insight

Sector decarbonisation: The future transport energy mix

...expectation for it to account for around Biofuels will clearly have an important role to play in the energy transition especially renewable diesel (HVO), which can be readily produced from...
Leading UK bulk liquid storage specialist, UM Terminals, has announced a new interim managing director

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Liquid storage expansion plans for UM Terminals’ new MD

...oils, industrial, food and feed, chemical, fertiliser, fuels, biofuels and base oils. The bulk liquid specialist currently has a capacity of over 300,000 cubic metres of storage, but the plan...