China aims to produce 2m tonnes biodiesel by 2020

28 June 2007 17:40  [Source: ICIS news]

BEIJING (ICIS news)--China aims to have the long-term capacity to produce 2m tonnes/year of biodiesel and 10m tonnes/year of fuel ethanol by 2020, an official at the country’s National Reform & Development Commission (NRDC) said on Thursday.

 

“In the short term, China plans to produce 200,000 tonnes of vegetable oil-based biodiesel and 2m tonnes of fuel ethanol by 2010,” Ren Dongming, deputy director and associated professor at Centre for Renewable Energy Development of NRDC, said in Mandarin.

 

He was speaking at the IBC China Biofuels & Ethanol Outlook 07 Conference in Beijing.

 

“The biofuel industry in China is just at the beginning, there are total of four fuel ethanol producers with output of only 1m tonnes in 2005,” he said, adding that the country had started gasohol testing in nine provinces - Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei and Anhui.

 

There are more than 20 biodiesel plants in China, but only a few process waste oil rather than plant oil and most operate on a smaller scale with output of less than 50,000 tonnes/year.

 

“Our country is encouraging producers to develop non-grain based biofuel currently and promote the use of gasohol and biodiesel,” Ren said.

 

He also said that China had planned to increase the proportion of renewable energy in full energy consumption to 10% by 2010 and 16% by 2020.

 

The two-day conference ended on Thursday.

By: Rena Gu
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