In Australia, to help kickstart local production of SAF, the Qantas Group is calling for the Australian Government to introduce a SAF blending mandate as part of a broader framework of industry policies, similar to those already announced in other jurisdictions. The UK, Europe and Japan have set or proposed mandates of between 5 and […]
In Australia, the Palaszczuk Government has joined forces with airline giant Qantas to get Queensland’s vision to be an Asia-Pacific green jet fuel hub on the runway. Under a memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday, the Queensland Government and Qantas will work together to further grow a local SAF industry. This will include exploring how to […]
In Australia, Australia will be exposed to environmental, economic and energy security risks if governments fail to foster a domestic renewable fuels sector. That is the alarming assessment of a new report commissioned by Bioenergy Australia – Transitioning Australia’s Liquid Fuel Sector: The Role of Renewable Fuels – which addresses the elephant in the room on decarbonising […]
In Australia, Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has welcomed new funding for the Hydrogen Headstart initiative announced in the 2023-24 Federal Budget. The Australian Government announced the establishment of the $2 billion Hydrogen Headstart initiative to underwrite the biggest green hydrogen projects to be built in Australia. Funding will provide revenue support for investment in […]
In Australia, winemaker St Hubert’s has promised to deploy 100,000 biodegradable seed pods using drone technology from AirSeed, and is advertising its efforts with billboards that also contain seeds and biodegrade. The campaign for St Hubert’s The Stag cabernet sauvignon will focus on Victoria’s Winton Wetlands, an area hit hard by extreme weather. The billboards […]
In Greece, Mytilineos Energy & Metals said it acquired a 15% equity stake in CLARA Energy’s Rosedale Green Hydrogen project in Australia. In particular, this investment will support commencement of Stage 1 of the Rosedale project to build hydrogen generation facility that will be exclusively powered by solar production and will feed long haul trucks […]
In Australia, algae bioplastics maker Kelpy has partnered with SOS Carbon to make use of the giant sargassum bloom that is threatening tourism and fishing throughout the Caribbean. At 5,000 miles wide, this year’s Atlantic sargassum bloom is the largest ever seen at this time of year. The partnership will leverage the Littoral Collection Module […]
In Australia, cultivated meat startup Vow has produced a meatball made of mammoth meat. Vow recently told CNN it hopes the peculiar dish will raise awareness of the potential for lab-grown meat. “We need to start rethinking how we get our food. My biggest hope for this project is … that a lot more people […]
In Australia, agricultural by-products including sugarcane will be turned into jet fuel through investment from the Qantas Group, Airbus and the Queensland Government, at a Queensland biofuel production facility being developed by Jet Zero Australia in partnership with leading sustainable aviation fuel technology company LanzaJet. The Qantas Group and Airbus will jointly invest A$2 million […]
In Australia, Ampol Limited and ENEOS announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the production of advanced biofuels at the Lytton refinery in Brisbane, Australia. The parties have also executed a separate MoU with the Queensland Government and will continue to engage with the state as work progresses to discuss investment […]
