The Methanol Institute recently shared with Manifold Times the renewable and low-carbon methanol project pipeline June 2026 release produced by GENA Solutions Oy.
Information from the release is meant to provide the bunkering publication’s readers with insight on renewable methanol availability, and to assist the maritime industry in the adoption of methanol as a mainstream marine fuel heading into IMO 2030/2050.
Key takeaways from GENA’s June 2026 Methanol release are as follows:
- As of the end of June 2026, GENA tracks 284 renewable and low-carbon methanol projects, representing 61.8 Mt of capacity by 2031. This includes 24.7 Mt of e-methanol, 25.9 Mt of biomethanol, and 11.2 Mt of low-carbon methanol.
- Five new projects were added to Project Navigator, while three frozen projects were excluded. The cumulative project pipeline capacity by 2031 increased by just 0.1 Mt month on month.
- Renewable methanol project pipeline growth slowed in 2026 to about 0.7 Mt per month, compared with 1.1 Mt per month in 2025. The postponement of the IMO NZF adoption is one of the major factors behind this slowdown.
- About two-thirds of renewable methanol project pipeline growth over the past six months was driven by methanol-to-jet GENA now tracks 36 MTJ projects globally, with cumulative methanol consumption of more than 9 Mt.
- By the end of 2026, GENA expects operations to begin at three industrial-scale facilities: one hybrid biomethanol facility and two e-methanol facilities. This will increase renewable methanol operational capacity to up to 1.5 Mt.
- By 2031, global renewable methanol capacity could range from 6 Mt to 12 Mt.
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Photo credit: GENA Solutions
Published: 2 July, 2026
