China plans pilot tasks to spice up use of biodiesel.
China will launch a collection of pilot tasks to spur home manufacturing and consumption of biodiesel, the Nationwide Power Administration (NEA) has mentioned, beefing up environmental efforts in an space the place the nation lags different massive economies.
Sparse coverage assist has saved consumption of biodiesel, a low-carbon different to petroleum diesel created from feedstocks equivalent to palm oil and used cooking oil (UCO), low in China, in comparison with the the European Union and america.
In a doc issued, the NEA urged native authorities to hold out demonstration tasks in a number of areas of the biodiesel business, and suggested regional governments to supply monetary assist.
The NEA mentioned:
We’ll broaden the appliance situations of home biodiesel.
The NEA mentioned, including that it aimed to evolve a growth path that might be replicated to furnish a foundation for continued promotion of inexperienced liquid fuels.
Such efforts embrace integration of the UCO feedstock provide chain and distribution of the gas at freeway gasoline stations. It additionally pledged to advertise inclusion of biodiesel in a voluntary nationwide licensed emission discount mechanism.
The NEA didn’t present particulars on financing and timelines, nonetheless.
Biodiesel produced from UCO has barely decrease vitality content material than petroleum diesel however cuts greenhouse gasoline air pollution by as a lot as 83%, a examine in 2022 by the Argonne Nationwide Laboratory in america confirmed.
Whereas China is forecast to supply 1.9 billion litres of biodiesel this 12 months, home demand is predicted to mop up simply 40% of that, information from the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) reveals.
China has not introduced mixing mandates for biodiesel, and solely the native authorities of Shanghai, its monetary hub, has supplied subsidies for biodiesel manufacturing, the USDA mentioned in a September report.
The restricted home use of biodiesel and sustainable aviation gas, a low-carbon different to kerosene, lets China export giant volumes of UCO to the U.S. and European Union, the place subsidies and mixing mandates increase biofuel demand.
China plans pilot tasks to spice up use of biodiesel, November 21, 2023
