India approves soft funding for ethanol facilities

According to news reports the Indian the government has approved soft loans for another 61 ethanol facilities to help it achieve its 20% ethanol blending mandate by 2025. The new facilities will produce 2.57 billion liters of ethanol production capacity, of which 1.86 billion liters will use grain as feedstock. All of the approved projects

Pacific Basin sees methanol as best option

Pacific Basin Shipping, a Hong-Kong-headquartered dry bulk shipowner, said it sees methanol as its best option as it pursues commercially viable zero-emissions vessels. In May 2022, the company entered into a memorandum of understanding with Nihon Shipyard Co., Ltd and Mitsui & Co., Ltd to cooperate on the development of zero-emission vessels and potential investment

MOL signs another contract to charter LNG newbuild

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has inked a new multi-year contract to charter an LNG carrier newbuild to an unnamed energy major. The 174,000 cu m vessel, booked for construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea is expected to deliver in 2026. The ship will feature the latest ME-GA

France, India adopt joint roadmap on renewable energy

India and France have adopted the “Indo-French Roadmap on the Development of Green Hydrogen” to work in a number of areas, including industrial partnerships on energy and for greater knowledge sharing and skill development. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships of France, and R.K. Singh, Minister of Power, New and

CO2-to-methanol plant begins production in China

A ‘cutting-edge’ carbon dioxide (CO2)-to-methanol plant has begun production in Anyang, Henan Province, China, becoming the world’s first commercial scale facility of its kind to produce methanol from captured waste CO2 and hydrogen gases. Taking advantage of Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL) technology developed by Carbon Recycling International (CRI), the facility will be capable of capturing 160,000 tonnes

Stellantis to mass produce hydrogen-powered vehicles

Stellantis, announced the mass production of Peugeot, Citroën and Opel light commercial vehicles in a hydrogen-powered version equipped with a fuel cell. These hydrogen-powered vehicles will be assembled on the site’s multi-energy line, which already produces the electric and combustion engine versions of the “K-Zero” daily. BharatBenz expands network, inaugurates 300th touchpoint Using a reinforced

Samskip signs biofuels agreement with GoodFuels

Samskip has signed a new agreement with GoodFuels, committing the Samskip container ships Endeavour, Innovator, Hoffell and Skatafell to run on marine grade bio-residual fuels until the end of 2022. GoodFuels MDF1-100 biofuel is formulated entirely from sustainable waste streams from the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive list. Initially using a biofuel blend which achieved a

Jumbo Maritime completes transatlantic trip using biofuels

In The Netherlands, Offshore Energy reported that Dutch shipping company Jumbo Maritime has revealed that its heavy lift vessel Jumbo Jubilee has completed a transatlantic voyage to and around the United States powered mostly with biofuel. According to the report, the company chose GoodFuels‘ biofuel with the aim to cut carbon emissions. The biofuel is

Report says new fossil fuels ‘incompatible’ with 1.5 C goal

A new report by an independent, Canada-based think tank found a broad consensus of published research supports the International Energy Agency’s conclusion that new oil and gas fields are at odds with the climate target. This article was originally published by Carbon Brief, a U.K.-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy

Modhera in Gujarat is India’s first ‘net-zero’ energy community

Gujarat’s Modhera has emerged as India’s first 24X7 solar-powered village. It is also a ‘net-zero’ energy community, meeting 100 per cent of its energy requirements using on-site solar power. Under the project, 1 kilowatt (KW) solar panels have been installed on the roof of almost every house in Modhera in two phases. The work was