Renewable Fuels Changes To EIA's Petroleum Surveys

CattleNetwork.com

5/28/2009 1:47:00 PM

EIA has recently implemented expanded data collection efforts to better capture ethanol, biodiesel, and other renewable liquid fuel volumes, marking an important milestone in a multi-year effort to address the growing role of renewable fuels. Congress enacted a mandate for the increased use of renewable motor fuels in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. That same law also authorized EIA to collect better data on renewable fuels. The need for better renewable fuels data became even more important when the mandate for renewable fuel use was significantly expanded by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which sets a target of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel use by 2022.

In response to these developments, EIA requested, and was provided with, funding to improve its renewable fuels data collections. Following a redesign of our existing survey forms, and the creation of some new ones, the first phase of this project was completed in early 2009 with changes to the Petroleum Supply Monthly (PSM). The March PSM featuring January 2009 data, adds renewable fuels, displays fuel ethanol supply and demand, and incorporates ethanol production into supply and disposition tables.

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