Renewable Fuels

The French Constitutional Court blocked Thursday the reintroduction a pesticide that was accused of harming honeybees. This is the latest development in a bitter political battle within the largest agricultural producer in the European Union. The court ruled that the proposed re-authorisation for acetamiprid – a pesticide belonging to the group of neonicotinoid pesticides, which is banned in France – as part of a farm bill passed last week did not offer sufficient protections regarding the use of this crop chemical. A petition opposing the proposed relaxation of France’s neonicotinoid prohibition gathered over 2,000,000 signatures. This was a record on...

Uniper said it will invest $5.8 billion in renewable energy and gas-fired plants through 2030. The German utility updated its strategy on Thursday to reflect more realistic expectations for the green energy market. Last year, the state-owned company announced that it would reduce an initial investment plan of 8 billion euros for its transformation by 2030. It cited falling returns from renewable projects and a delayed development of hydrogen markets. Investors have pressed several European utilities including the larger German counterpart RWE to review their capital budgets and cut spending plans. Uniper CEO Michael Lewis stated that the regulatory and...

Drax Group announced a 11% decline in its first-half core profit due to lower UK wholesale electricity prices. The ongoing energy market fluctuation continued to affect the British power company. Drax, a company that has converted coal-fired plants to run on biofuels, supplies about 5% (or 5,000 MWh) of Britain's electric power. The adjusted profit, or EBITDA fell to 460 millions pounds ($611million) in the first six months, down from 515million pounds during the same period in last year. The group stated that it did not expect to change its adjusted EBITDA for the entire year, which is 899-910 millions...

TotalEnergies announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with Norwegian investment company HitecVision to sell 50% of Polish producer Polska Grupa Biogazowa. The French energy company stated that the agreement represents a value of 213.6 million euros (190 million Euros). Stephane Michel, TotalEnergies' President of Gas, Renewables & Power, said that the deal would help Polska Grupa Biogazowa continue its growth in Poland, where biogas development is booming. Erlend Elliottsen, CEO of HitecVision and Managing Director, said that the companies have complementary skills which they will use to "scale" PGB in the coming years, through greenfield projects, as...

The French farm ministry lowered Tuesday its estimate for the soft wheat area that will be sown in 2025. However, it expects to see a strong rebound after a rain-damaged planting last year. The Ministry's Crop Report estimated that the area of soft wheat was 4.60 million ha, down from 4.63 millions hectares in April estimates but still 9.1% higher than last year's harvested areas. Last year, France, the largest grain producer in the European Union, harvested the smallest wheat crop it has ever produced since the 1980s after torrential rainfall and lower-than-normal sunlight disrupted and damaged plant development. FranceAgriMer's...

A trade contract in between the European Union and Mercosur countries, which includes a. significant area on farming, has triggered demonstrations from. EU farmers who argue farm imports from South America do not meet. European requirements. The agreement dating from 2019 and published on the. Commission website has yet to be embraced. It includes the. facility of import quotas of specific farming products. from Mercosur nations, including Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay. and Uruguay, either duty complimentary or at lowered levy. The agreement would also give EU farmers increased access to. South American markets which could enhance exports of products. such as...

The European Union, rushing to develop a 9 million euro joint getting mechanism for important minerals and energy, is choosing between 8 bidders competing to develop a platform, documents revealed and sources with direct understanding told Reuters. The bloc's reasoning for pooling together buying orders is that it would hand individuals more take advantage of to attain more beneficial deals and rates for crucial minerals necessary for the green shift that sell thin and nontransparent markets frequently controlled by China. The EU aims to sign an agreement by the end of the year and begin establishing areas of the platform...

Thyssenkrupp is evaluating plans for production of green steel, the German corporation stated late on Sunday, responding to a report that it was considering stopping a 3billioneuro ($ 3.3 billion). decarbonisation task. The crisis-ridden company is presently reviewing the. company prepare for its steel division, TKSE, including prepare for. its green change, which describes the carbon-neutral. production of steel, among the most contaminating commercial. processes. In doing so, we are continuously taking a look at the best and. most financially viable solutions under the offered conditions in. regards to technology and leads to order to make Thyssenkrupp's. steel organization climate-neutral...

Mining financial investment conferences have a fantastic track record of pointing to the next development location for commodities, as they unite early phase investors and junior miners looking for to get jobs off the ground. A decade ago lithium was the popular metal, 5 years earlier it was the turn of gold and more just recently copper has been the flavour of the month at these occasions throughout Asia. However at the 121 Mining and Energy Financial investment conference this week in Singapore there was no clear option, and no real consensus on where the very best chances lie. If...

Spain stated on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Envision Group for the Chinese group to build a $1 billion plant to manufacture equipment used for the production of green hydrogen. A memorandum of understanding revealed Envision would begin developing the factory that will produce electrolysers - the machinery separating hydrogen from water - by June 2026. The Chinese business will fund the job in Navalmoral de la Mata, situated some 190 km (118 miles) to the southwest of Madrid, with private partners, it said. Envision is likewise set to buy green hydrogen production, the entire green hydrogen value-chain...

German energy EnBW on Thursday stated it expects to get 100,000 lots of green ammonia a year from Norway's Skipavika Green Ammonia job from 2027 onwards, in a boost for Germany's efforts to decarbonise commercial procedures. Green ammonia, made with renewable electricity, can be utilized to make hydrogen by means of a breaking process, which is low in carbon emissions. Germany is betting on green hydrogen, produced through electrolysis driven by wind and solar power, as an alternative to nonrenewable fuel sources. EnBW will gather the ammonia at the port of Skipavika near Bergen on Norway's west coast and provide...

Shell said on Thursday it will construct a 100megawatt sustainable hydrogen electrolyser in Germany, the company's second system in Europe, which will assist it minimize carbon emissions at its refineries. The Refhyne?II electrolyser at the Rheinland refinery is set up to start running in 2027 and produce up to 44,000 kilograms daily of eco-friendly hydrogen to partially decarbonise website operations, the business said. In the longer term, eco-friendly hydrogen from the task might be straight provided to assist lower industrial emissions in the area as consumer demand evolves, Shell said in a. statement. In the Netherlands, Shell is presently building...