(Notícia em Inglês)
Washington, D.C. — Boom times are ahead for a biodiesel industry that struggled just to stay alive in 2010.
The industry could produce as much as a billion gallons in 2011, nearly triple this year's production, said Gary Haer, chairman of the National Biodiesel Board.
Congress this month revived a critical $1-a-gallon tax subsidy that had lapsed at the end of 2009, and the industry also will benefit in 2011 from increased federal mandates on refiners to use biodiesel.
There is a specific mandate for use of 800 million gallons of biodiesel next year, plus biodiesel also can qualify toward an additional requirement for refiners to use what are termed advanced biofuels. Sugarcane ethanol from Brazil also will qualify as an advanced biofuel because of its low greenhouse gas emissions in comparison to U.S. corn ethanol.
"Certainly, we're very optimistic about 2011," said Haer, who is vice president of sales and marketing for Renewable Energy Group of Ames, a top biodiesel producer.
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Washington, D.C. — Boom times are ahead for a biodiesel industry that struggled just to stay alive in 2010.
The industry could produce as much as a billion gallons in 2011, nearly triple this year's production, said Gary Haer, chairman of the National Biodiesel Board.
Congress this month revived a critical $1-a-gallon tax subsidy that had lapsed at the end of 2009, and the industry also will benefit in 2011 from increased federal mandates on refiners to use biodiesel.
There is a specific mandate for use of 800 million gallons of biodiesel next year, plus biodiesel also can qualify toward an additional requirement for refiners to use what are termed advanced biofuels. Sugarcane ethanol from Brazil also will qualify as an advanced biofuel because of its low greenhouse gas emissions in comparison to U.S. corn ethanol.
"Certainly, we're very optimistic about 2011," said Haer, who is vice president of sales and marketing for Renewable Energy Group of Ames, a top biodiesel producer.
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