by Curt Epstein
June 16, 2023
Synopsis
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will release a study later this year on potential feedstocks for sustainable fuels, aiming to address the transportation sector's carbon emissions. The "Billion Ton Study" will assess available biomass and waste feedstocks, their sustainability criteria, and concentration locations. This information will guide companies in the sustainable aviation fuel industry, helping them determine suitable locations for renewable fuel refineries and effective conversion technologies. The study will also consider cover crops and CO2 waste gases as important factors for sustainable aviation fuel development, including the evaluation of energy crops that do not yet exist.
With the transportation sector accounting for one-third of U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the support of the Department of Agriculture, will release its latest study later this year on potential feedstocks for sustainable fuels. Conducted every five years, the study will focus on what biomass and waste feedstocks are actually available along with their sustainability criteria.
The “Billion Ton Study”—which will also determine where the feedstocks are concentrated—will be valuable to companies in the growing sustainable aviation fuel industry as they determine the locations of future renewable fuel refineries and the most effective conversion technologies needed to process those materials.
“This year’s version is going to include cover crops as well as CO2 waste gasses, both very important for the future of sustainable aviation fuel,” said Valerie Sarisky-Reed, director of the DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Speaking this week during the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative’s virtual two-day SAF event, she explained: “We know that energy crops are essential as part of that billion-ton sustainable biomass, so we need to begin to evaluate how energy crops will begin to play in this world when they don’t even exist yet.”
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