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Compliance risk for obligated parties due to lack of (planned) eSAF production volumes

By Eric van den Heuvel / 17/07/2023 / Analysis, Aviation sector, E-fuels, EU, Publications, Renewable fuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuel

ReFuelEU Aviation has set first mandates for the blending of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF, and eSAF when produced from renewable electricity). Some production plants are already in operation and many more have been announced. From 2030 onwards production volumes, in particular for eSAF, need to ramp up following the set …

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Higher ambitions, but potentially more fossil

By Eric van den Heuvel / 07/06/2023 / Analysis, Aviation sector, Biofuels, Carbon Footprint, Climate change, E-fuels, EU, Greenhouse gas emissions, Low carbon fuels, Netherlands, Policy, Publications, Renewable fuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuel

The unintended impacts of the inclusion of hydrogen to contribute to the SAF-mandates in the ReFuelEU Aviation preliminary agreement of May 2023 On May 2, 2023, the European Council, Commission and Parliament reached a preliminary agreement on making the aviation sector in Europe more sustainable. This agreement, called ReFuelEU Aviation, …

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“Honey, I shrunk the car sales!”

By Eric van den Heuvel / 01/06/2023 / Analysis, Electric mobility, Netherlands, Passenger cars, Publications, Renewable energy, Road transport, Road transport sector, Transport sector

2022 passenger car registrations in the Netherlands Passenger cars registrations keep going down while the average base price of models registered keeps going up. The registrations of battery electric vehicles for the third year in a row stabilized at around 70 thousand. Most striking is the ‘collapse’ of registrations of …

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Focus on fuels with low full-life-cycle GHG-emissions may help maritime industry

By Eric van den Heuvel / 25/05/2023 / Biofuels, E-fuels, EU, Greenhouse gas emissions, Low carbon fuels, Policy, Publications, Renewable energy, Shipping sector

At the the May 2023 Conference on Green Marine Fuels by Argus Media, Eric van den Heuvel provides a key-note speech on the implications of the FuelEU Maritime regulation for the future fuel/energy carrier mix to be bunkered in the EU Maritime sector. He presented the example of the LNG …

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Groeiende behoefte aan hernieuwbare waterstof voor luchtvaartbrandstoffen in Nederland

By Mark Bunse / 18/01/2023 / Aviation sector, Bio-based, Biofuels, E-fuels, Hydrogen, Netherlands, Publications, Renewable energy, Renewable fuels, Scenario, Sustainable Aviation Fuel

In opdracht van het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat heeft studio Gear Up een onderzoek uitgevoerd naar de waterstofbehoefte van de Nederlandse luchtvaartsector richting 2030 en 2050. Waterstof is nodig voor de productie van duurzame, biogene luchtvaartbrandstof (SAF) en e-SAF (op basis van waterstof, uit elektrolyse van hernieuwbare elektriciteit, en …

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Accelerating Energy Independence and Emission Reduction: the role of advanced biofuels in transport

By Eric van den Heuvel / 25/08/2022 / Biofuels, Climate change, EU28, Publications, RED, Renewable fuels

a hybrid EurActiv event on 6 September 2022, Brussels/online Carlo Hamelinck of studio Gear Up will be one of the panelists at an Euroactive event that discusses the role of low-carbon liquid fuels and especially advanced biofuels in the energy transition in Europe. The panelists will reflect on the proposal …

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Analysis of car sales in 2021 in the Netherlands: lower sales of ICEVS ánd BEVs

By Eric van den Heuvel / 15/06/2022 / Analysis, Electric mobility, Market Development, Netherlands, Passenger cars, Publications, Road transport, Road transport sector

After years of growth of the annual new registrations of passengers cars, 2021 was characterized by a strong decrease of total registrations. For the first time the number of registered Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) was lower than the previous year, breaking with a trend of steep increases. 2021 saw a …

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Renewable energy in transport in NL more than doubled in ten years time, yet share fossil still above 90%

By Eric van den Heuvel / 13/02/2022 / Analysis, Biofuels, Climate change, Electric mobility, Energy consumption, Low carbon fuels, Netherlands, Policy, Publications, Renewable energy, Renewable fuels, Road transport

From 2011 to 2020 the share of renewable energy in the Dutch transport sector grew from 3,4% to 9,1%. This is a big achievement but yet the inconvenient reality is that still more than 90% of energy used in transport is still from fossil source (see Figure 1). In national …

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Factor renewable fuels in maritime sector

By Loes Knotter / 02/11/2021 / Biofuels, Netherlands, Policy, Publications, Renewable fuels, Shipping sector, Transport sector

June 2021, Dutch Ministry Infrastructure and Water management wished to better understand what the effects would be of allowing only advanced biofuels to be registered for bunkers to maritime transport, and whether additional factors are needed to maintain the balance between bookings in road transport and the seagoing shipping sector. …

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sGU-Rapport ‘Inzet van biobrandstoffen uit voedsel- en voedergewassen’

By Eric van den Heuvel / 08/10/2021 / Biofuels, Carbon emissions, Climate, Climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Netherlands, Policy, Publications, Renewable energy, Renewable fuels, Transport sector

Een onderzoek van studio Gear Up in opdracht van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat n.a.v. de aangehouden Motie (35626-21) van Kamerlid De Hoop over een afbouwpad van biobrandstoffen uit voedsel- en voedergewassen. Het rapport is hier te downloaden. In de Kamerbrief van Staatssecretaris Van Weyenberg van 8 oktober waarin …

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