UFOP publishes 15th edition of ‘Biodiesel & Co.’ status report

Germany-based Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) announced Oct. 1 that it has published the 15th edition of its status report “Biodiesel & Co.,” which provides information on the most important legal regulations at the European and national level for the promotion of biofuels.

The report begins with a critical review of the coalition government’s energy policy in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

It critically scrutinizes the promotion of electrification to the neglect of the physically available biofuel potential.

It examines the critical discussion on the topic of phasing out combustion engines and, in view of the impending inability to meet the 2030 target, the failure of the German government to develop a fuel strategy to mobilize the sustainably available potential of biofuels in a timely manner.

The report scrutinizes Germany’s National Biomass Strategy (NABIS) in the context of the U.S.’s biomass strategy.

Other topics include issues and challenges relating to fraud prevention for imports of biodiesel or hydrotreated vegetable oil and waste oils.

The report also emphasizes what UFOP said is the “fundamentally strategic and exemplary importance” of the greenhouse-gas (GHG) quota legislation as a legal regulation geared toward GHG efficiency in competition.

The corresponding effects in the raw-material composition of biofuels, which are counted towards the quota obligation, are shown graphically and in detail in the statistical appendix.

The statistical appendix shows the development of national, European and global production and consumption of biodiesel and HVO as well as production capacities.

The status report is available for download here.

UFOP noted that its previous reports are also available.

“For these years, the development process of EU and national biofuel policy can be taken in the ‘rear-view mirror,’ figuratively speaking,” UFOP stated.