Scaling Sustainable Fuel for the Future | Insights with Niels Jensen
Coming on the heels of its June 2025 announcement establishing a pilot program for reactor construction and operation in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order 14301, on July 16, 2025 the DOE announced a Fuel Line...more
How can aviation tackle its carbon footprint while fueling the future? Watch as Niels Jensen, Co-Head of Aviation Finance, explores the challenges and opportunities of scaling sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). He highlights...more
Paradoxically, the world of the mid 2020s is a world in which countries otherwise rich in energy supply nonetheless have been having trouble keeping the lights on, both undermining their political, societal, and economic...more
The aviation industry is facing a transformative challenge to step up its efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Increased use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plays a pivotal role in this efforts with its potential to reduce...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS released Notice 2024-37 on April 30, 2024, regarding the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Tax Credit found at Section 40B of the Internal Revenue Code as an income tax credit and...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 19, 2024, that it issued an emergency fuel waiver for E15 sales. EPA states that the waiver will help consumers protect themselves against fuel supply shocks...more
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced the availability of $300 million in discretionary grant funds as part of their Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition (FAST) program. The goal of the program is to...more
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced $300 million in funding for projects to help the aviation sector reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The application window is now open for $245 million in Fueling Aviation's...more
The Canadian Council for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (C-SAF) recently launched a Roadmap for the country's aviation sector to remain competitive as it transitions to a net-zero future by 2050. C-SAF also published yesterday an...more
The landmark Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) was a long-anticipated legislative package for the industry because it promotes investment in alternative forms of energy. During this webinar, Partners Denmon Sigler and...more
There is no way to avoid it. It seems like everything costs more now than it did last week, last month and last year. Energy is one area with very sensitive prices. You have likely experienced the significant changes in...more
Summer driving season, and the consequential increased fuel demand, have officially begun. After more than two pandemic years and countless canceled vacations, people are anxious to reinstate their summer travel plans. The...more
Public policy concerns associated with contracts impacted by energy industry bankruptcies filed in the Fifth Circuit will be resolved in bankruptcy court mini-trials instead of FERC proceedings. Parties entering energy...more
The triggering of the CCM under the UK ETS and ongoing consultations under UK Reach signal speedbumps in the transition process. On 30 November 2021, the UK government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial...more
The strategy sets out plans to reduce emissions from key sectors of the UK economy to ensure that the UK remains on track for net zero by 2050. On 19 October 2021, the UK government published its climate change strategy,...more
Following the recent surge in consumer panic buying of fuel, the UK government announced on 27 September 2021 that it had suspended UK competition law to allow companies to share information so that fuel could continue to be...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of May 10, 2021 – May 14, 2021... May 10, 2021: The IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2021-25,...more
On March 3, 2021, the Resolution That Establishes the Goods Whose Import and Export Are Subject to Regulations Issued by the Ministry of Energy (the “Resolution”) was officially suspended through a resolution published in the...more
Texas has proven that a commitment to market solutions and diverse electrical infrastructure can be a recipe for success. Under the restructuring of the power market and initiatives like the competitive renewable energy zone,...more
Malware goes commercial. Last year, Jeff Bezos’ phone was hacked after he received a message on WhatsApp containing a line of malware code. The incident has shed light on the malware, aka spyware, industry. Companies sell...more
The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) recently issued for public comment a draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) detailing measures to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions from the transportation sector. TCI is a...more
Energy Infrastructure Attacks are ‘Probable’: Oil Traders Fear Supply Disruptions in the Middle East - "A dramatic escalation of geopolitical tensions will most likely result in an unplanned oil supply shortage in the...more
In today’s blog post, I want to look at some of the more unusual bribery schemes from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions in 2019. Some of these schemes were not unusual but they were accomplished with...more
The IMO and the Price of Gas or The Impact of the International Maritime Organisation’s Sulphur 2020 Limit for Marine Fuel Oil on the Price of Gas - The main bunker fuel for ships is High Sulphur Fuel Oil (HSFO, with...more
Pemex, the Mexican national oil company, recently published its 2019-2023 business plan which outlines the economic strategy that Pemex and its subsidiaries will adopt and implement during that period. Pemex’s business plan...more