Mahindra Logistics Ltd. (MLL) has opened a new net-zero facility, which is designed with a sustainable warehousing architecture including multi-client capabilities, renewable energy, resource conservation and green cover. This state-of-the-art net-zero multi-client warehouse is located in 3.7 lakh sq.ft at Aruna Industrial Park in the Banda Mailaram village of Mulug mandal of Siddipet. This warehouse
Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), an Energy trading platform, became the country’s first carbon-neutral power exchange using market based tradable instruments to offset its carbon emissions. To reduce its carbon footprint, IEX voluntarily cancelled CERs (certified emissions reductions) from clean projects registered under the Clean Development Mechanism of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. IEX’s
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared a seed farm, located in Aluva, as the first carbon neutral farm in the country. A significant reduction in carbon emission has helped the seed farm, under the Agricultural Department, achieve the carbon neutral status, he said making the announcement. The total amount of carbon emission from the farm,
Twenty hydrogen trains, 25 high-capacity parcel vans and 300 AC Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) coaches are slated to be part of the rolling stock programme in the 2023-24 Union Budget. Besides, 250 Mainline EMU coaches for the suburban section are also to be included in the next Budget proposal for facilitating local travel in the
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) in partnership with Puget Sound Energy intends to convert an old coal mine in the US into a green hydrogen-making plant in a bid to accelerate a clean energy transition in the North American Pacific Northwest. FFI earlier this year said it was evaluating the feasibility of transforming the former Centralia
Strategic Biofuels has started construction works on its Louisiana Green Fuels (LGF) project, the first renewable diesel project in North America to achieve “negative” carbon emissions. According to Strategic Biofuels, the LGF project is estimated at $2.8 billion, with the State Bond Commission and the Louisiana Community Development Authority granting their approval to LGF for
Alfa Laval has entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of CVR Energy, Inc., a U.S.-based renewable fuels and petroleum refining company, to supply processing systems for feedstock pre-treatment, part of a strategic investment in the refinery supporting CVR’s expansion into renewable biofuel production. Alfa Laval will supply pre-treatment systems, consisting of various equipment such
World Fuel Services, through its subsidiary Gib Fuels, has begun bunkering biofuels in Gibraltar in conjunction with GoodFuels. The first bio-bunkering took place in October, supplying renewable diesel to a Norwegian cruise lines vessel. GoodFuels recently supplied 100% marine biofuel to an Aida cruise ship. Cruise lines are taking a keen interest in biofuels to
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said it has signed a business partnership agreement with top local steelmaker POSCO on the development of new shipbuilding materials. The deal calls for joint efforts to develop new shipbuilding materials and welding technologies that will be applied to vessels to be built in the future, DSME said
The drive to E20 compliance in the Indian automobile industry is on schedule. In line with the government’s thrust towards ethanol adoption in India, apex industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) organised a technology demonstration on ‘Ethanol Adoption – Flex Fuel Vehicles in India’, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on December 12.