UK bioethanol market can boom
The UK's Renewable Energy Association (REA) anticipates there is potential for bioethanol production in the UK to rise by 20 times its current level by 2020, and biodiesel to rise by three times.
The association's recent report finds there is a major opportunity to increase production of biofuels in the UK in order to deliver targets set in the European Union's Renewable Energy Directive.
The REA produced a position paper on the UK's implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive and Fuel Quality Directive in June 2009 and asked Imperial College London to carry out a peer review in September 2009, looking at biofuel supply and demand scenario modelling.
These fuels could be delivered through domestic production, using EU grown feedstocks without increasing the overall land area used for arable crops in the European Union.
However, the reports show that there will be a need for imports of sustainable feedstock and finished biofuels to make up the full UK obligation under the EU's Renewable Energy Directive.
The REA conducted a modelling exercise to find out exactly where these fuels could come from, and the role of UK and EU producers.
The results showed that, while new technologies such as electric vehicles and other fuels such as biogas will make a contribution, the vast majority of the renewable transport fuel will come from traditionally produced biofuels.
Friends of the Earth has hit back at the report which highlights that at least 20% of biofuels will need to be imported from outside of the EU in order to meet the targets - which demand that 10% of all energy used in road transport must come from renewable sources by the year 2020.
The association's recent report finds there is a major opportunity to increase production of biofuels in the UK in order to deliver targets set in the European Union's Renewable Energy Directive.
The REA produced a position paper on the UK's implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive and Fuel Quality Directive in June 2009 and asked Imperial College London to carry out a peer review in September 2009, looking at biofuel supply and demand scenario modelling.
These fuels could be delivered through domestic production, using EU grown feedstocks without increasing the overall land area used for arable crops in the European Union.
However, the reports show that there will be a need for imports of sustainable feedstock and finished biofuels to make up the full UK obligation under the EU's Renewable Energy Directive.
The REA conducted a modelling exercise to find out exactly where these fuels could come from, and the role of UK and EU producers.
The results showed that, while new technologies such as electric vehicles and other fuels such as biogas will make a contribution, the vast majority of the renewable transport fuel will come from traditionally produced biofuels.
Friends of the Earth has hit back at the report which highlights that at least 20% of biofuels will need to be imported from outside of the EU in order to meet the targets - which demand that 10% of all energy used in road transport must come from renewable sources by the year 2020.
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