Biofuels

(asked on 22nd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with car manufacturers on the introduction of bio fuels as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 30th June 2020

The Department supports biofuels through the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), a scheme which has been successful for the past 12 years in supporting a market for biofuels. In 2018, renewable fuels supplied under the RTFO scheme, which were overwhelmingly biofuels, made up 3.1% of total road and non-road mobile machinery fuel supply.

The Department’s ministers and officials regularly consult on biofuels policy with a range of stakeholders, including vehicle manufacturers. For example, the Department has recently consulted on the introduction of E10 petrol, which would increase the amount of bioethanol in petrol vehicles. In addition, the Low Carbon Fuels Team in the Department holds quarterly meetings with industry experts to discuss our biofuels strategy. The last meeting, which I had the pleasure of speaking at, was on 25 June.

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