Vinesh Sinha, Fathopes Energy: Revolutionising glorified rubbish collection

Date: 14 May 2026

This week’s episode sees Vinesh Sinha, CEO, Fathopes Energy, join Oscar for a conversation on the SAF Podcast. 

Vinesh Sinha dropped out of university in 2007, inspired by a Top Gear episode, and built FatHopes Energy into one of Southeast Asia’s most sophisticated sustainable fuel feedstock operations — with a digital traceability platform years ahead of the competition.

In this episode, Vinesh talks feedstock aggregation, the realities of scaling a waste-oil supply chain across Southeast Asia, and why FatHopes Energy is now moving into SAF refining with a 300,000-tonne greenfield plant targeting operations by 2030.

Plus: the truth about POME and palm oil, why AI is the only way to solve traceability at scale, and why Vinesh thinks the SAF industry is dangerously underestimating three things — feedstock, infrastructure, and integrity.

This is a wide ranging conversation and one that digs into the critical components that is helping build Malaysia as a SAF global hub.

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