For: DG MOVE – European Commission [Jan – Oct 2017] The Sustainable Transport Forum (STF) has been formed following the publication of the Directive on the Deployment for an Alternative Fuels Infrastructure. In this forum stakeholders in alternative fuels discuss and provide recommendations to the European Commission. Under the STF several […]
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Stagnation of share of renewables in transport in post-2020 period Since early 2000s biofuels in transport have been supported by policy. For two reasons. One is the contribution they make to carbon reduction and the other for their capacity to reducing the fossil oil dependency of the transport sector. Biofuels are
RED-2 of European Commission should limit fossil, not renewable fuels Read More
For: Refuel BV [Feb – Jun 2017] Refuel’s mission is to contribute to a more sustainable transport fuels market. Refuel is active as strategic advisor to organizations active in the downstream oil market. Also interim management services are provided to these companies. In an assignment to Refuel to a private
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Although December 2016 showed another record-high for electric vehicles in the Netherlands, also other low-carbon options are urgently needed to further reduce transport emissions. 31,6%, in December 2016, was the highest share for full electric (FEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) passengers vehicles in the monthly new car registrations in
for: IEA Bioenergy, VTT Finland [Mar – Dec 2016] In an international project team, the role of biomass energy for grid balancing was investigated. Given the expected increasing share of renewable sources for the production of renewable electricity, and in particular the share of variable sources (wind and solar energy), biomass
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For: VITO Flemish Institute for Technology [Dec 2015 – Aug 2016] studio Gear Up carried out for VITO project management and execution activities for the ‘BioSustain’ project’, commissioned by DG Energy of the European Commission. In the BioSustain project VITO collaborates with other European partners (PwC, TU Wien, Utrecht University, INFRO and
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For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment [Dec 2015 – Apr 2016] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, studio Gear Up took preparatory steps, together with involved stakeholders in the sustainable biofuels sector in the Netherlands to found a Platform Sustainable Biofuels (‘Platform Duurzame Biobrandstoffen). The aim of
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For: NOVE – Dutch association for independent fuel suppliers on land and water [Jul 2015 – Jan 2016] studio Gear Up supports NOVE and its members in understanding the biofuel market and policy developments in Europe and the Netherlands. By providing market, policy and regulation updates NOVE members are able
Strategic support on biofuels Read More
At the COP21 in Paris, 195 countries adopted the Climate Agreement to limit the rise of global temperature “to well below 2 ºC above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5 ºC. The text of the Agreement can be found here. Now it is up to
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For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment/Netherlands Enterprise Agency [May – Nov 2015] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment studio Gear Up is operating as a ‘quartermaster’ to initiate concrete actions on biofuels in heavy duty road transport. These actions should help reaching a sustainable fuel mix that
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