Renewable Fuels Agency says UK exceeded biofuels target for 2008/09

In the UK, the Renewable Fuels Agency reported that biofuels accounted for 2,.6 percent of the total fuel supplied for road transport use, exceeding the Government target of 2.5 percent for 2008//09.

The RFA said that a misdrafting was identified in the Renewable Transportation Fuels Obligation last October, and as a result fossil fuel supplied as a blend with biofuel in 2008/09 did not incur an obligation.  Accordingly, the the provisional total for legally obligated fuel in 2008/09 is 21 billion liters, less than half of the total road transport fossil fuel supply of 46 billion liters.

The latest report on RTFO obligations and biofuel usage in the UK is here.

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