RTFO releases latest biofuel blending stats

In the United Kingdom, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations order requires transport fuel suppliers to ensure that a proportion of the fuel they supply comes from renewable sources (biofuels). Current returns show 1,621 million litres of renewable fuel have been supplied in period 10 (2017/18) so far, which is 3% of total road and non-road mobile machinery fuel.

1,306 million litres (81%) of this fuel has so far been demonstrated to meet the sustainability requirements. Of this 1,306 million litres, biodiesel methyl ester (ME) – which we shall refer to as biodiesel for the rest of the report – comprises 48% of the supply, bioethanol 47% and biomethanol 5%. There was also a small volume of bio petrol, biomethane, off-road biodiesel, diesel with bio origin and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).