WASHINGTON, D.C. – A multi-state coalition of biofuel leaders and farm advocates referred to as on President Biden’s Treasury Division to swiftly resolve any questions standing in the best way of efforts to scale up U.S. manufacturing of Sustainable Aviation Gasoline (SAF). Particularly, they urged the administration to shortly undertake the U.S. Division of Power’s GREET mannequin for the calculation of SAF tax credit (40B) underneath the Inflation Discount Act – finishing a course of that was initially scheduled to conclude by March 1.
“We’re upset that the administration didn’t fulfill its dedication to launch a modified GREET mannequin by March 1, however we recognize the significance of getting the modeling proper,” wrote 26 organizations throughout 13 states, together with biofuel leaders like Progress Power, Clear Fuels Alliance America, Nationwide Corn Growers Affiliation, Nationwide Farmers Union, Nationwide Oilseed Processors Affiliation, and the Renewable Fuels Affiliation. “On the similar time, we warning towards contradictory adjustments to GREET that may stack unwarranted penalties on agricultural feedstocks, lower rural America out of a promising inexperienced vitality market, and undermine any reasonable path to attaining U.S. SAF targets.”
SAF advocates emphasised the supply of well-established methodologies for certifying local weather good agriculture (CSA) practices, in distinction to speculative and unverifiable penalties for oblique land use change (ILUC) favored by opponents of U.S. agriculture.
“Failing to worth regenerative and CSA developments, in addition to the complete suite of biorefining improvements cited in steerage up to now, would depart substantial carbon emissions reductions on the desk and characterize a missed alternative to energise these promising sectors,” they wrote. “A constant method to ILUC and CSA is an important a part of giving farmers and SAF producers a reputable, sturdy, and predictable framework for making the commitments essential to effectuate IRA and the SAF Grand Problem.”
The total textual content of the letter and an inventory of signers could be discovered right here.
