The REFUEL EU road map for biofuels in transport: Application of the project’s tools to some short-term policy issues
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010
The current hot debate on biofuels calls for a balanced and realistic long-term strategy for
biofuels. The REFUEL project provides several ingredients for such a strategy. Analyses in
this project indicate that domestically produced biofuels can cover a significant share of EU
fuel demand in the coming decades, with the EU-12 new member states and Ukraine as
most promising regions. This potential can be realised with residual streams and on
existing agricultural land, without conversion of e.g. nature reserves. Second generation
biofuels are essential for the long-term success of biofuels due to their superior performance
in many ways. But generally, the key challenge for the near future would be how to
enhance the development of biofuels in a responsible way, i.e. stimulating the production
chains with the best performance, and preventing negative impacts e.g., by paying careful
attention to possible system impacts of biofuel production such as indirect land use
changes and rising food prices. Finally, 2nd generation biofuels require specific policy: the
precursor role of 1st generation is overrated, both in technical terms as well as in their role
as market precursors. When it comes to synergies, 2nd generation biofuels might benefit
more from other developments in the energy sector, such as initiatives in co-firing of
biomass for (heat and) power, than from 1st generation biofuels, also because of the public
resistance that the latter induce.
Strategy
Biofuels
Resource potentials
Författare
Marc Londo
Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland (ECN)
Sander Lensink
Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland (ECN)
André Wakker
Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland (ECN)
Gunther Fischer
Internationales Institut fuer Angewandte Systemanalyse
S Prieler
Internationales Institut fuer Angewandte Systemanalyse
H. van Velthuizen
Internationales Institut fuer Angewandte Systemanalyse
Marc de Wit
Universiteit Utrecht
A. Faaij
Universiteit Utrecht
M Junginger
Universiteit Utrecht
Göran Berndes
Chalmers, Energi och miljö, Fysisk resursteori
Julia Hansson
Chalmers, Energi och miljö, Fysisk resursteori
Andrea Egeskog
Chalmers, Energi och miljö, Fysisk resursteori
Henric Duer
COWI A/S
Jeppe Lundbaek
COWI A/S
Grzegorz Wisniewski
Adam Kupczyk
Kurt Könighofer
Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
Biomass and Bioenergy
0961-9534 (ISSN) 18732909 (eISSN)
Vol. 34 2 244-250Ämneskategorier
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DOI
10.1016/j.biombioe.2009.07.005