Due to environmental regulations such as CII, EU ETS, and FuelEU Maritime, which have intensified the imperative for shipowners to accelerate decarbonisation initiatives, the maritime industry has witnessed a significant interest in alternative fuels. The most immediate goal imposed by the IMO is to reduce CO2...
Dr. Nicholas Ball, founder and CEO at XFuel spoke to Biofuels International about his journey towards the sustainable fuel industry, from his days as a masters and PhD student at Imperial College London, to working as a systems engineer in the financial services industry. He also...
As the fuel landscape continues to grow more complex with a variety of synthesised fuels promising a greener future, their feedstocks still struggle to meet global demands due to their limit of scalability and costs. This means there’s still a need for further investments into...
How is XFuel different from other technology companies producing synthetic fuels? CEO Dr Nicholas Ball explains in his latest Q&A with Sustainable Growth Voice how the company is disrupting the fuel sector by using a variety of bio-feedstocks from agriculture, construction and forestry,preventing them from going...
XFuel’s CEO Dr Nicholas Ball writes in Marine Log how synthetic drop-in fuels offer a scalable and cost-effective decarbonisation solution for shipping companies as they face growing environmental regulations from the IMO. As net-zero targets approach for the shipping industry, there is increasing pressure to adopt...