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Exploring systems of renewable fuels certificate and their trading mechanisms

By Carlo Hamelinck / 13/01/2023 / Projects, Workshops

For: European energy company [September 2022 – December 2022] A large European energy company, active in the sustainable mobility and energy transition field, sought insights into the Dutch Renewable Energy in Transport system (HBE system). They recognised it could be potentially interesting to have a similar system in their home […]

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Management of the Netherlands Platform Renewable Fuels

By Loes Knotter / 01/01/2023 / Projects

For: Platform Hernieuwbare Brandstoffen / Netherlands Platform Renewable Fuels [Oct 2016 – now] Managing the independent knowledge and innovation Platform Renewable Fuels (i) to support an accelerated mitigation the climate impact of the transport sector and (ii) to enable the builds up of a biobased economy in The Netherlands. studio

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Workshop over kosteneffectieve invulling RED3-doelen

By Eric van den Heuvel / 31/12/2022 / Projects, Workshops

Voor: RVO / Platform Hernieuwbare Brandstoffen [november – december 2022] Het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat is in voorbereiding voor de imnplementatie van RED3. Bij de opzet van het systeem wordt overwogen om sectorspecifieke verplichtingen in te stellen voor wegverkeer, zeevaart en lichtvaart en daarboven op ook een ‘sector-vrije’ verplichting.

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Quick-scan analysis on the ‘Renewable energy in transport’ multiplier for biofuels in shipping

By Eric van den Heuvel / 24/11/2022 / Projects, Workshops

For: RVO – Netherlands Enterprise Agency [October 2022] RVO, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, asked studio Gear Up for a concise analysis on the height of the multiplier that currently is used for bunkering advanced biofuels to the maritime sector. The specific question concerned whether a change to the factor for

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Demand for hydrogen in aviation fuels in the Netherlands

By Eric van den Heuvel / 30/09/2022 / Projects

For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Department of Aviation [September – December 2022] July 2021 the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation that would set mandatory targets for the deployment of renewable fuels in the European transport sector, known as ‘ReFuelEU Aviation’. Aimed to be implemented

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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 / Publications

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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To drop in or to adapt the engine?

By Loes Knotter / 29/03/2022 / Projects

Comparing total cost of ownership of renewables in heavy-duty trucks For: Dutch Platform Renewable Fuels and RVO [October 2021 – March 2022] studio Gear Up performed a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis on long-haul heavy duty (40t) trucks in the Netherlands. The study was commissioned by the Dutch Platform

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About Russian crude oil and the Netherlands

By Loes Knotter / 10/03/2022 / Uncategorised

The United States have announced to ban Russian oil and gas. Various Dutch national newspapers and many people on Twitter have explored the dependency of natural gas consumption in the Netherlands imported from Russia (see e.g. this article – in Dutch language – in De Volkskrant). The issue addressed the vulnerability of

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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 / Publications

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 / Publications

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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