UK supplies of renewable fuel from April 15, 2016, to January 14, 2017, totaled 1,156 million liters, according to the latest Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics released Thursday.
This represents a 2.8% decline from the same period of 2015-2016.
FAME biodiesel supplies in the UK in the same period totaled 545 million liters, down 2.4% year on year. Bioethanol supplies totaled 571 million liters, down 6%.
Diesel and gasoline supplies in the period amounted to 21.927 billion liters and 12.329 billion liters, respectively. For diesel, this is a 3.2% increase on the year, while for gasoline this represents a 1.7% decrease on the year.
Some 884 million litres of biofuel have so far been demonstrated to meet the sustainability requirements, of which bioethanol comprised 52%, biodiesel 44% and biomethanol 3%.
Waste/non-agricultural residue feedstock accounted for 557 million litres of biofuel, which is considered double-counted material in terms of its contribution to the national biofuel mandate.
RTFO statistics also report that 1.399 billion Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates have been issued for fuel meeting the sustainability requirements, 79% of which were issued to double counting feedstocks.
UK feedstocks account for 29% of biofuels, with used cooking oil from the UK being the most widely reported source for biodiesel (23%), not unlike the year before.
For bioethanol, however, the most widely reported source is UK wheat (25%), which has replaced sugar beet from France as the most common feedstock the same period the previous year.
This is not surprising considering that sugar beet contributes a smaller and smaller fraction of the ethanol feedstock range, due to considerably more attractive sugar prices in the last year.
