Fiji aims to stimulate biofuels investment

In Fiji, the government is seeking to encourage investment in its local biofuel industry. According to Fiji’s Department of Energy, the country currently produces 1.5 million liters of biofuel, but needs to increase production to 60 million liters. Fiji’s transportation industry requires 300 million liters of fuel per year.

The government has already approved biofuel standards and the Department of Energy is working with oil companies to mandate biofuels in the country. The requirements would likely include a 5 percent biodiesel blend and a 10 percent ethanol blend for gasoline.

Fiji already has a plant producing biodiesel from coconuts run by Biofuel Mills on Koro Island in the Lomaiviti providence, which began operations in March 2010.