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Jul 28, 2025
Australia’s HAMR Energy to Build First Methanol-to-Jet Sustainable Aviation Fuel Plant
Technology & Feedstocks
Jul 28, 2025
Spanish oil and gas major Repsol has acquired a minority stake in Stargate Hydrogen, an Estonian company producing alkaline electrolysers. The investment, made through Repsol’s Corporate Venture Arm, is part of Stargate’s €11 million Series A funding round.
Stargate recently opened its factory with an annual manufacturing capacity of 140 MW, producing containerised... [Read More]
End-Use & Offtake
Jul 24, 2025
SWISS has become the first airline globally to integrate solar fuel into its regular flight operations, marking a major step forward in aviation decarbonisation. The solar-derived synthetic crude oil, produced by Swiss clean-tech firm Synhelion at its DAWN facility, was refined into certified Jet-A1 fuel and used to partially power a flight from Hamburg to Zurich.
The... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 24, 2025
Pertamina New & Renewable Energy (Pertamina NRE), Energy Academy Indonesia (ECADIN), and French clean energy firm Verso Energy have signed an agreement to develop low-carbon fuels using biogenic CO₂. The partnership, formalised in Paris on July 22, aims to produce sustainable fuels like e-Fuels and e-SAF to replace fossil fuels in transport and industry.
Signed... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 23, 2025
Sasol Chemicals and German Power-to-Liquid (PtL) pioneer INERATEC have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) that will see Sasol supply its next-generation Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst to INERATEC from 2026. The advanced catalyst is expected to increase e-kerosene yields by 15% and expand the production capacity of INERATEC’s flagship facility.
INERATEC’s ERA ONE plant,... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 23, 2025
Galveston LNG Bunker Port (GLBP) and Loa Carbon have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly produce and supply e-LNG, a low-carbon alternative marine fuel, to the Houston-Galveston region. Under the agreement, Loa Carbon will produce renewable e-methane, which GLBP will then liquefy and distribute via fuel barge to LNG-powered vessels calling at Port Houston, the Port of... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 22, 2025
HIF Global has unveiled a redesigned layout for its e-Fuels project in Paysandú, Uruguay, developed in collaboration with local communities and the government. The revised plan improves environmental integration while maintaining the original $6 billion investment, timeline, and job targets.
Key updates include a 35% smaller facility footprint, reducing native forest... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 22, 2025
Prometheus Fuels has reached a major commercial milestone by validating its proprietary e-Fuel production system at Technology Readiness Level 9 (TRL 9). Its Titan Forge Alpha prototype successfully integrated a full-scale 50-cell Faraday Reactor, making it the first company worldwide capable of producing low-cost, carbon-neutral e-Fuel using direct air capture (DAC) and... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 22, 2025
The SASHA Coalition is pleased to welcome Norsk e-Fuel as its newest member.
Norsk e-Fuel is developing synthetic aviation fuels produced with green hydrogen, considered one of the only scalable and truly sustainable drop-in solutions for decarbonising long-haul aviation. The company’s first three plants are expected to deliver 250 million litres of e-fuel by 2032,... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 22, 2025
Avia Solutions Group, the world’s largest aircraft leasing provider, has unveiled plans to construct Northern Europe’s biggest sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Liepāja, Latvia, through a joint venture with local partners under the name “NorSAF”.
Set to begin production in 2030, the plant will produce 100,000 tonnes of SAF annually—more than 12 times... [Read More]
Technology & Feedstocks
Jul 22, 2025
A major R&D initiative aimed at decarbonising the Dutch chemicals industry has received nearly €45.7 million in funding to develop hydrogen-based processes and technologies.
Led by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the five-year HyCarb project brings together over 45 partners—including nine universities, five universities of... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 19, 2025
Swiss cleantech company Synhelion has achieved a major milestone by powering a car with solar gasoline for the first time. A 1985 Audi Sport quattro, part of AMAG’s classic car collection, completed the historic drive without any engine modifications – demonstrating the fuel’s compatibility with existing vehicles.
The solar gasoline was produced at Synhelion’s... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 16, 2025
German cleantech firm INERATEC has officially opened ERA ONE, Europe’s largest commercial-scale power-to-liquid plant, located in Frankfurt. The facility produces up to 2,500 tonnes of carbon-neutral e-fuels annually, including sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF), e-diesel, and sustainable plastics precursors.
ERA ONE uses CO₂ sourced from a nearby biogas plant and... [Read More]
Technology & Feedstocks
Jul 15, 2025
Cavendish Renewable Technologies (CRT), a cleantech firm based in Melbourne, has unveiled a new hybrid electrolysis platform that aims to dramatically cut the cost and complexity of green hydrogen production. The company’s C-Cell system blends solid oxide and alkaline technologies, using a proprietary ultra-thin ceramic membrane to improve efficiency and scalability.
Unlike... [Read More]
Technology & Feedstocks
Jul 14, 2025
Axens, in partnership with IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and SMS group, has officially launched Carboverseo™, an innovative reverse water-gas shift technology that converts CO₂ into CO at industrial scale. Now fully homologated, this process is set to become a cornerstone for scalable e-Fuels production.
Developed on an accelerated timeline, Carboverseo™ leverages... [Read More]
Projects & Investment
Jul 11, 2025
Norsk e-Fuel, a developer of e-Fuel plants producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), has secured a new investment from Finnish investor Tesi to fuel its Nordic expansion. This follows a funding round earlier this year led by Prime Capital, with co-investors including Paul Wurth (SMS group), Norwegian, and Sunfire.
Norsk e-Fuel is advancing two planned projects in Finland... [Read More]
Strategy & Insight
Jul 2, 2025
The e-Fuels Laboratory in Punta Arenas, Chile, a joint initiative by HIF Global, the University of Magallanes (UMAG), and Empresas Gasco, has conducted over 50,000 fuel analyses since its launch three years ago – underscoring its growing role in synthetic fuel quality assurance, scientific research, and regional talent development.
Focused on advancing e-Gasoline... [Read More]
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