The JEC Biofuels Study. Modelling biofuel implementation scenarios to 2020

CONCAWE and its two JEC Consortium partners, EUCAR and JRC, have completed a study analysing nine biofuel implementation scenarios for their potential to achieve the mandates from the EU's Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). The study shows that eight of nine transport scenarios modelled in the study could achieve the RED's 10% renewable energy target with optimistic assumptions for the pace of biofuel implementation into market fuels through 2020. None of the scenarios, however, could achieve the FQD's mandated 6% reduction in GHG emissions without significant improvements in the GHG reduction performance of readily available biofuel products over the next 10 years.