Japan Biofuels Annual 2013-Japan Focuses on Next Generation Biofuels
Report Highlights:
The Government of Japan (GOJ) plans to introduce 500 thousand kilo liters (kl) (oil basis) of biofuels by 2017 and 1.8 million kl (oil basis) by 2020. Last year, the GOJ permitted sales of E10 gasoline and vehicles designed to use E10 or ETBE22. Hence, demands for bio-ethanol and ETBE are expected to increase. Due to the increase in food prices during the past few years, there is a broad debate within Japan about the use of food crops to
produce biofuels. This is a major reason that Japan is focusing research efforts on cellulosic ethanol technology that does not compete with food.
