Todays Latest Updates: 08 July 2026

Biogas: Germany. EnviTec Biogas plans to invest about €100 million ($117 million) by 2029 to expand biomethane production, converting existing biogas plants and building new facilities as it shifts away from electricity generation toward renewable gas. The strategy follows the company’s success in Germany’s latest renewable energy auctions, securing extended support for 16 MW of capacity. Despite regulatory challenges that weighed on recent earnings, EnviTec expects growth from 2027 as biomethane demand strengthens. Link 08/07/2026.

Biojet/SAF: Australia. GrainCorp released a new white paper highlighting Australia’s readiness to build a domestic Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry, as the Federal Government prepares to consult on a demand-side measure to stimulate investment in refining capacity. Link 08/07/2026.

Ethanol: USA. In testimony at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Renewable Fuels Association expressed its gratitude to the Trump administration for its “steadfast commitment to removing unfair barriers to U.S. ethanol exports shipped to Brazil and around the globe” and noted it “strongly supports” the reciprocal tariff applied to imports from Brazil. Prior to the implementation of punitive trade barriers, Brazil and the United States enjoyed an open and efficient two-way trading relationship in ethanol, which resulted in our two nations experiencing a dramatic increase in bilateral ethanol trade. As a result of this newly applied tariff regime, the value of U.S. fuel ethanol exports to Brazil fell to zero in 2023, just $43 million in 2024 and $68 million in 2025, Hubbard added. U.S. ethanol exports to Brazil accounted for just 1.3 percent of total U.S. ethanol exports in 2024 and 1.8 percent of exports in 2025, after accounting for approximately one-third of total U.S. exports as recently as 2018. Link 08/07/2026.

Feedstock: Belgium. The revision of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/807 now classifies soybean oil as a high indirect land use change (ILUC)-risk biofuel feedstock, making it ineligible to count toward renewable energy targets by 2030. Transport & Environment’s position maintains that the revised Delegated Act must pass the legislative scrutiny period without objection and enter into force. Soy-based biofuels are heavily linked to deforestation and land-use change, particularly in South America’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, and undermine the EU’s overarching climate ambitions of reducing transport emissions. Link 08/07/2026.

Policy: United Kingdom. Following a visit by UK civil servants to the US’s corn belt to visit ethanol producers last October, the government reopened in December its previous ban on crop-based biofuels. The current UK policy is meant to support waste-based biofuels and e-fuels but if following the results of last December’s call for evidence, crop-based biofuels are permitted for use in sustainable aviation fuel, analysts expect US SAF producers to benefit over UK producers due to the price differential. Link 08/07/2026