Rio Tinto enters into one-year biofuel trial with BP

Rio Tinto, a giant mining company, will be working with BP on a one-year biofuel trial to help reduce carbon emissions from its fleet. Under the deal, BP will be supplying biofuel for Rio Tinto’s 2013-built capesize bulker RTM Tasman on a mix of Transatlantic and Atlantic-Pacific routes, in what is said to be one

Wärtsilä to partner with Capwatt in green hydrogen blending

The technology group Wärtsilä will collaborate with the Portuguese energy solutions provider and independent power producer Capwatt in the testing of a green hydrogen and natural gas blend fuel for Capwatt power plant located in Maia. The project will start in Q1, 2023 and it aims at testing blends of up to 10 vol.% green

MicroBite develops a disruptive technology for its bio-ethanol plant in Telangana

MicroBite, a Hyderabad based bio-ethanol startup, has developed a disruptive technology for ‘inline’ sterilization of liquid raw materials. This could be of significant importance to the ethanol industry, especially while handling the inventories of perishable materials for a longer period. Bio-ethanol plants in India predominantly use conventional tanks for storing perishable raw materials. Sugarcane based

Shell and Acu port in Brazil agree for developing pilot green hydrogen plant

Shell and Brazil’s Acu port have agreed to develop a green hydrogen generation pilot plant at the port’s facilities, located in the northern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, the pilot plant, which is expected to be ready in 2025, will have an initial capacity

USDOE to partner with private companies to advance clean hydrogen

In order to makehydrogen a more available and effective fuel for electricity generation, The United States Department of Energy (USDOE) will partner with private companies to research advanced technology solutions. This includes improving capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) associated with hydrogen production from carbon-based resources and technologies to more efficiently use hydrogen in gas turbines for electricity

Gravitricity, Arup received grant from BEIS for hydrogen storage project

Gravitricity, an Edinburgh-based energy storage specialist, and Arup, a global built environment consultancy, have secured £300 000 from the UK Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to study the feasibility of storing hydrogen in purpose-built underground shafts. Gravitricity and Arup will collaborate to deliver a complete system design and commercial feasibility report for

Topsoe plans to build biggest electrolysers plant in Europe

Topsoe, a Danish engineering group, released plans to build Europe’s biggest plant making electrolysers – machines that produce the green hydrogen. The Danish plant will start running in 2024 and comes with a 2 billion Danish crowns ($284 million) price tag. The European Commission this month unveiled plans to end its reliance on Russian fossil

Robert Allan signs a contract with UZMAR for methanol-fueled tugboats

UZMAR Shipyard and Robert Allan Ltd have signed an agreement for the design and build of a new series of methanol-fueled tugboats. These new designs, exclusive to UZMAR, represent a new generation of lower emission tugs that owners are demanding to meet CO2 reduction targets. The agreement was signed for four new designs. The new

Golar LNG and Snam agree to transform an existing LNG carrier into FSRU

Golar LNG and have entered a €269m contract to transform an existing LNG carrier, dubbed Golar Arctic, into a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU). The contract covers the vessel and capex for its conversion into an FSRU. The FSRU will be installed by Snam in the port area of Portovesme in Sardinia, an Italian

The Dutch government offers subsidies to install hybrid heat pumps

Government in the Netherlands has announced plans to ban fossil fuel boilers and make hybrid heat pumps the standard for heating homes from 2026. The government offers subsidies for the purchase of hybrid heat pumps, which has been increased to an average of 30% from this year. It intends to set requirements for the efficiency