{"id":92900,"date":"2018-06-18T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bcc3209d85bf582ba1fa16c966193f27"},"modified":"2018-06-18T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:30:08","slug":"news-story-government-funding-boost-for-low-carbon-fuels-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=92900","title":{"rendered":"News story: Government funding boost for low carbon fuels development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Seven industry-led projects will receive a share of \u00a32 million to develop proposals for advanced fuels production plants, as part of the government\u2019s drive to reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals include the production of aircraft jet fuel from steel mill waste gases, and a project exploring the use of waste wood to produce a synthetic natural gas for <abbr title=\"heavy goods vehicles\">HGVs<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the Future Fuels for Flight and Freight Competition, which was launched in April 2017 to encourage private sector investment in the development of advanced fuel production facilities in the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Biofuels Minister Jesse Norman said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are committed to reducing carbon emissions from transport to tackle climate change and make the sector as sustainable as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a322 million funding commitment made through this competition will enable the development of this important set of technologies, paving the way for cleaner growth in the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Supporting projects like these is just part of our work to help ensure the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> transport sector is greener than ever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The aims of the competition are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increase domestic production of advanced low carbon fuels capable of reducing emissions from the aviation and <abbr title=\"heavy goods vehicle\">HGV<\/abbr> sectors<\/li>\n<li>stimulate investment and create jobs through the development of a prosperous domestic industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The successful bids are:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Organisation<\/th>\n<th>Fuel type<\/th>\n<th>Funding<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Rika Biogas Technologies<\/td>\n<td>Liquid biomethane<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3103,034<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Johnson Matthey<\/td>\n<td>Kerosene, diesel and petrol substitutes<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3178,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Standard Gas<\/td>\n<td>Synthetic natural gas<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3178,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LanzaTech<\/td>\n<td>Kerosene and diesel substitutes<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3410,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Progressive Energy<\/td>\n<td>Synthetic natural gas<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3175,960<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kew Projects<\/td>\n<td>Diesel substitute<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3312,300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Velocys Technologies<\/td>\n<td>Kerosene and petrol substitutes<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3434,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Applicants that receive Stage 1 funding will be invited to apply for a share of a further \u00a320 million Stage 2 funding to help with construction. The Stage 2 assessment will take place in December 2018 and the successful applicants will be announced in early 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ee.ricardo.com\/transport\/case-studies\/f4c\">successful stage 1 applicants and the competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1016\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>News desk enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3021\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Switchboard<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First stage winners of the Future Fuels for Flight and Freight Competition announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}