Switzerland: Hitachi Zosen Inova Starts Green Hydrogen Production Facility

Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) and the Aarau-Lenzburg Regional Waste Disposal Association (Gemeindeverband für Kehrichtbeseitigung Region Aarau-Lenzburg or GEKAL) will produce hydrogen at the waste-to-energy plant in Buchs (canton of Aargau). It is planned that the first hydrogen will be produced at the beginning of 2023. “Full operations will commence a few months later in the […]

Finland: VTT and Neste to Build a Power-to-Liquids Demonstration Plant

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Neste Oyj have agreed to build a technology demonstration facility. Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale, Neste underlined in June this year. E-fuels would offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing […]

The Global Tire Derived Fuel Market

This worldwide market is expected to reach the value of 510.91 million US-Dollar by the end of 2031, USA-based Transparency Market Research Inc. informed. In 2020, the market was valued at 373.06 million US-Dollar. Increasing applications of scrap tires as tire-derived fuel (TDF) in pulp & paper mills, cement manufacturing, and utility boiler industries were […]

Turning Sewage Sludge into Fuels and Hydrogen

Climate change and energy shortages spur innovations. In August, USA-based financial, software, data, and media company Bloomberg reported that Northwest Europe “is forecast to begin a perilous winter with historically low amounts of diesel, a fuel that powers vast swaths of the economy”. The region’s stockpiles of road diesel, heating oil and other diesel-type fuel […]

Sustainable Aviation Fuel Market to Grow

The market is expected to exhibit a tremendous compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 60 percent over the forecast period of 2022-2032. According to an analysis provided by Future Market Insights Global and Consulting Pvt. Ltd., the global sustainable aviation fuel market will reach an estimated value of 15 billion US-Dollar in 2030, scaling up […]

European Union: Parliament Advocates Green Aviation Fuels

In the European Union, civil aviation accounts for 13.4 percent of total CO2 emissions from transport. According to the European Parliament, used cooking oil, recycled carbon fuels, synthetic fuel or hydrogen should gradually become the norm as aviation fuel to help the EU become climate neutral by 2050. In July this year, the Members of […]

European Innovation Fund: EU Invests in Clean Tech Projects

In July this year, the European Commission announced that the EU is investing over 1.8 billion Euro in 17 large-scale innovative clean-tech projects with a third round of awards under the Innovation Fund. As reported, grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring breakthrough technologies to the market. The selected projects are […]

BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition: Scrap Becomes Increasingly Important

According to the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), the consumption of secondary material rose by 6.4 percent to 503.437 million tons. The steel scrap usage figures represent verified data for 79.7 percent of global steelmaking in 2021. Every year on the occasion of the BIR World Recycling Convention in spring, Rolf Willeke, Statistics Advisor of […]

Intended: The Regulation of European Green Bond Standard

Green bonds play an increasingly important role in financing assets needed for the low-carbon transition. However, there is no uniform green bond standard within the EU. The new European Green Bond Standard wants to ensure that European companies can benefit from green financing and that investors will find the green investments they wish. In May, […]

New Fund to Scale Breakthrough Circular Solutions

Managed by Demeter and Cycle Capital, the impact investing Circular Innovation Fund (CIF) aims at scaling growth-stage circular innovations. Cycle Capital and Demeter, two cleantech-focused capital managers, announced one day ahead of Earth Day in April the first close for the new 160 million US-Dollar (about 150 million Euro) Circular Innovation Fund with the participation […]