Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels ponders changes to biofuel blender criteria
In Switzerland, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels is considering policy alternatives in markets where ethanol blenders may have trouble sourcing a blend of fuels that meet the 50 percent reduction in GHGs (compared to fossil fuels) that is proposed as Criterion 3c of RSB principles.
Under proposed RSB rules, producers may qualify under RSB so long as their fuels are better than fossil fuels and they meet the RSB principles, while blenders qualify only if their overall blends meet a 50 percent threshold. The problem of corn ethanol, which is currently rated at a baseline 21 percent improvement, was raised as an example. Blenders in the US would be unlikely to source the needed quantities of qualifying fuels to reach the 50 percent threshold. If blenders are thereby discouraged from following RSB guidelines, reasoned some RSB members, why would producers go through the RSB certification process?
Category: Policy
