US - Energy security and sustainability
- Congress has established long term renewable fuel standards with the goal to develop annual capacity of 36 billion gallons (136 billion liters) by 2022
- Mandated use of 16 billion gallons (61 billion liters) of cellulosic ethanol by 2020
- The President's Biofuels Interagency Working Group is laying out a strategy to advance the development of the sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation's biofuels targets
- Well developed fuel ethanol market with annual consumption of 13 billion gallons (49 billion liters)
- Gradual increase of ethanol blend ratio
- Introduction and growing use and acceptance of flex fuel vehicle technology
- Growing availability of E85
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Brazil - Dynamic growth and global leadership in fuel ethanol
- World's leader in renewable energy when measured as share of the overall energy matrix
- World's most competitive producer and largest exporter of ethanol and sugar
- Abundant biomass sources: cane bagasse and straw, eucalyptus, bamboo, pine and other soft woods, rice husk and many other agricultural residues
- The world's most developed fuel ethanol market with domestic consumption of 17 billion expected in 2010, which in volume represents approximately 40% of the domestic gasoline market
- Strong demand growth driven by flex fuel cars
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EU - Sustainability
- DIRECTIVE 2009/28/EC promotes the use of renewable energy
- All biofuels must meet sustainability and minimum greenhouse gas reduction criteria
- Limited support for 1G technologies - certain EU markets criticized the use of cereal crops for ethanol production
- By 2018, biofuels must meet a minimum 60% GHG reduction target - most 1G biofuels do not fulfill this requirement
- Cellulosic ethanol typically reduces GHG by 70 to 90%
- In most EU countries domestic 1G ethanol production is not cost competitive on a global level
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