Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced what it thinks the 2011 percentage standards for the Renewable Fuel Standard program (aka RFS2) should be. The EPA proposed that the overall volumes and standards for the four fuels categories in the program should be:
- Biomass-based diesel (0.80 billion gallons; 0.68 percent)
- Advanced biofuels (1.35 billion gallons; 0.77 percent)
- Cellulosic biofuels (5 – 17.1 million gallons; 0.004 – 0.015 percent)
- Total renewable fuels (13.95 billion gallons; 7.95 percent)
The EPA needs to set these annual limits in order to help the U.S. reach the Congressionally-mandated level of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel in 2022 as established in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). In 2009, the EPA set the overall renewable fuels level at 11.1 billion gallons.
Right now, the cellulosic ethanol target is lower that EISA asks for, but the EPA said in a statement it “remains optimistic that the commercial availability of cellulosic biofuel will continue to grow in the years ahead.” We’ll see.
[Source: EPA]
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