logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2021
18m 16s

Marine Fuels of the Future: Biofuels

S&P Global Commodity Insights
About this episode

Ahead of London International Shipping Week 2021, a six-part S&P Global Platts podcast series looks into the pricing of alternative marine fuels for the global shipping industry. In each episode of Marine Fuels of the Future, Platts editors investigate the current state of the major fuel alternatives, as the shipping sector seeks to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions ahead of stringent caps in 2030 and 2050. In episode two, we look at biofuels – a diverse energy source derived from vegetable oils and waste matter, rather than from traditional hydrocarbons.

Up next
Aug 19
Shifting gears: Will states take the wheel on US electric vehicle policy?
In the US, the Trump administration's rollback of federal incentives supporting electric vehicle adoption will put states back in the driver's seat on encouraging the transition to electric vehicles. With states varying wildly in their interest and support in electric vehicles an ... Show More
26m 42s
Aug 12
One Big Beautiful Bill: Another ride on the solar coaster?
In this episode, Commodity Insights analysts Tiffany Wang and Cinthya Pena explain the implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for US renewables supply chains and project development. The OBBBA was a sweeping budget reconciliation bill which US President Donald Trump signe ... Show More
19m 56s
Aug 5
Break up or not? Europe's zonal pricing conundrum
In this week’s episode, energy reporters Camilla Naschert and Alex Blackburne explain the ongoing debate around the way in which price zones are divided in Europe’s power markets. In markets with only one price zone, such as Germany and Britain, widening geographic distances betw ... Show More
13m 54s
Recommended Episodes
Oct 2023
Bye-bye, fossil fuels
Have no doubt: Fossil fuels are out and renewables are in. The International Energy Agency predicts a dramatic shift toward green energy by the end of this decade. And more than 130 large companies recently signed onto a letter urging world leaders to ditch fossil fuels. Plus, th ... Show More
6m 33s
Mar 2023
Biofuels and EV Charging in Carbon Credit Tussle
Carbon credit schemes in Europe and North America are making the roll-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure increasingly profitable. In this episode of Switched On, we hear from BloombergNEF’s Ryan Fisher, electric vehicle charging specialist and Jade Patterson, renewab ... Show More
34m 32s
Feb 2024
Things to Watch: Hydrogen
On today’s bonus episode of the podcast, Dana is joined by Kathy Gao, a Senior Associate from BloombergNEF’s Hydrogen team, to unpack the things to watch for the sector in 2024. Together they discuss offtake agreements and the potential for shipping and aviation to step up as cus ... Show More
23m 5s
Nov 2021
The global treaty to phase out fossil fuels | Tzeporah Berman
We currently have enough fossil fuels to progressively transition off of them, says climate campaigner Tzeporah Berman, but the industry continues to expand oil, gas and coal production and exploration. With searing passion and unflinching nerve, Berman reveals the delusions keep ... Show More
13m 45s
Jun 2022
The World Ahead: The future of green travel
Can flying be made sustainable? Host Tom Standage travels to the year 2042 to find airlines making growing use of “synthetic” aviation fuel, made using carbon dioxide extracted from the atmosphere, which allows for carbon-neutral flights. Back in the present, Nat Keohane, former ... Show More
29m 26s
Sep 2023
The Energy Gang at the London Hydrogen Conference – Part 1
Host Ed Crooks brings you the first of two special episodes recorded live from Wood Mackenzie’s Hydrogen ConferenceIndustry leaders and energy analysts gathered recently for the second annual Wood Mackenzie Hydrogen Conference, where they debated the potential of hydrogen in the ... Show More
49m 22s
Feb 2022
تغيُّر المناخ في المنطقة العربية: الطاقة
في ورقة بحثية نُشرت في دورية نيتشر في سبتمبر الماضي وجد الباحثون أنَّه بحلول عام 2050، يجب أن تظل نسبة مقدارها حوالي 60% من النفط وغاز الميثان الأحفوري، وقدرها 90% من الفحم، غير مستخرَجة للبقاء ضِمن حدود حصة انبعاثات الكربون المسموح بها للحد من الاحترار، بحيث لا يتجاوز الزيادة ال ... Show More
32m 7s
Jan 2022
A conversation with Enterprise: Going all in on upstream petrochemicals
Enterprise Products Partners co-CEO Jim Teague and Chris D’Anna, senior vice president of petrochemicals, discuss the energy storage and transportation titan’s push into upstream petrochemicals that will feed growing plastics demand over the next decade. The company is a key deli ... Show More
20m 52s
Sep 2023
Green and novel: the future of energy generation
Harnessing energy directly in space and from the ocean flow 
57m 38s
Jan 2022
The dreams and details of a green shipping revolution | Jim Hagemann Snabe
As chairman of the world's largest maritime shipping company, Jim Hagemann Snabe thinks a lot about how goods get where they need to go and the impact their journey has on the planet. Leading the effort to decarbonize shipping by 2050, he shares a plan to convert green electricit ... Show More
11m 37s