Biodiesel May Stage Revival as Non-Transport Biofuel

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Global Bioenergy Industry News

Thursday, August 12, 2010

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Biodiesel May Stage Revival as Non-Transport Biofuel

UK - The Renewable Heat Incentive (proposed April 2011) will be a major focus at EBEC 2010.

Under the proposed RHI a new market for biodiesel will be created as it will can be blended with heating oil to provide a real growth opportunity for the biodiesel sector estimated at 900 million litres. This will stimulate significant production volumes again in the UK and sustainable growth for the industry as many investors have left this market over the last two years.

Biodiesel could become a leading market in the UK for home heating fuel, reports Process and Control Today.

Delegates and visitors to EBEC 2010, 6th& 7th October, at Stoneleigh Park Warwickshire, can attend a dedicated workshop given by Clean Energy Consultancy and learn just how big the opportunities are for Biodiesel within the home heating oil sector. The workshop will highlight the financial and carbon benefits of liquid biofuel heating compared with heating oil, LPG and heat pumps. Case studies will be shown to highlight this monumental chapter that will cause a phenomenal and integral change to the Biodiesel sector. The workshop will also look at the blending requirements, sustainability criteria, taxation, incentives and other issues ahead of implementation.

Heating oil (kerosene) is the main fuel used in the domestic oil heating market and has similar properties to liquid biofuels such as biodiesel. Importantly, this means the heating appliances that are currently installed in houses up and down the country will be compatible with the alternative biofuel, potentially eliminating prohibitive capital costs to convert existing central heating boilers to biofuels.

As a result of the project, the UK government has withdrawn fuel duty on liquid biofuel heating oil, and has included this fuel type in the latest Building Regulations and in the forthcoming Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Legislation.

Richard Price, Director of EBEC commented, “The Bioenergy sectors are set to grow significantly in the coming years, however, there are challenges ahead. At EBEC 2010 we hope to address some of these issues such as financing, Environment Agency issues, the classification of Glycerol in the UK, the new market for Biodiesel and demonstrate how many of the Bioenergy sectors are integrated. We have a strong learning aspect to EBEC with free to attend workshops and local site visits to Bioenergy production sites as well as organisations that have adopted Bioenergy as their primary energy source”.

Biofuels Media organise study tours throughout the year to bioenergy facilities as well as from EBEC. The tours give visitors first hand experience of the problems and challenges business, farmers and organisations have faced when planning, building and installing bioenergy facilities whether producing bioenergy or adopting it for use.

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