As the world rapidly changes and fossil fuel costs rise, industries are exploring residues and biomass as sources for boilers,
co-firing, biogas, and biofuels. New technologies are continually emerging to efficiently convert diverse biomass
feedstocks into commercially viable biofuels, biopower, and other bioproducts.
This paradigm shift is influencing how companies adapt to climate change and sustainability objectives.
Napier grass can be an excellent crop for compressed biogas projects. But CBG developers should finance constrained productivity, delivered methane cost and feedstock basin design, rather than headline biomass yields.
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Regional feedstock basins connecting residues, intermediate crops, dedicated energy crops, marginal land and biomass hubs are becoming strategic infrastructure for renewable fuels, SAF and biobased industries.
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AI data centers are becoming an energy infrastructure challenge. This article explores how biomass, biomethane, heat reuse, cooling and carbon removals could support hybrid data center energy campuses.
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SAF production is increasing, but refinery capacity is only part of the challenge. Reliable feedstock procurement, logistics, certification and long-term supply development will determine which projects can reach commercial scale.
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Veolia’s new facility in Aragón combines organic-waste composting with the processing of agricultural and forestry biomass for fertiliser products and renewable industrial heat.
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Camelina and carinata can add low-carbon oilseed supply for SAF, but only where rotations, farmer contracts, crushing, logistics and certification convert hectares into financeable refinery feedstock.
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Australia has millions of hectares that may suit pongamia, but bankable SAF feedstock depends on land-use fit, rainfall, logistics, farmer adoption and long-term offtake.
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Industrial heat pumps could decarbonise existing ethanol plants faster than new fuel pathways scale, but only where electricity, heat integration and project economics work.
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Raw dairy biogas may become a distributed SAF feedstock, but only if upgrading, aggregation, carbon accounting, farm economics and offtake risk are solved together.
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Acelen’s billion-litre SAF ambition highlights a harder feedstock question: whether macaúba plantation biology, farmer adoption and oil supply can match refinery timelines.
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Rebound brings Technip Energies, Airbus, Safran and Tereos into a Dunkirk Alcohol-to-Jet project before Final Investment Decision (FID). The article examines ethanol supply, offtake and European SAF execution risk.
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The Renewable Fuel Standard creates demand through RVOs and RINs, but value reaches farmers, residue owners and processors only through approved pathways, qualifying conversion, verified fuel and contracts.
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Matías es sociólogo y doctor en Ciencias Políticas por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, respectivamente. Tiene una amplia experiencia en investigación social y de mercado, relaciones públicas y capacitación en varios países de América Latina, trabajando con Amnistía Internacional y otras organizaciones. Matías fue Director Nacional de Políticas contra la Violencia Institucional en la Secretaría de Derechos Humanos y Pluralismo Cultural de la Argentina de 2016 a 2019. Actualmente, contribuye al desarrollo de cultivos de bioenergía y bioeconomía en países en desarrollo, en línea con los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.
