USDA issues landmark plan for achieving 36 billion gallon Renewable Fuel Standard targets by 2022

Biofuels Digest
June 24, 2010 Jim Lane

In Washington, the USDA released its highly-anticipated “Regional Roadmap to Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022.” In the 21-page document, which can be downloaded via biofuelsdigest.com, the USDA identified dedicated energy crops, primarily switchgrass, as the practical platform for achieving a 20 billion gallons of advanced biofuels production, and discussed the regions in which it believed biofuels feedstock production would be most viable, driving the location of bioenergy facilities.

The USDA projected in its report that the US, in order to meet its 2022 RFS target of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel, would produce 13.4 billion gallons formed educated energy crops, including perennial grasses, energy cane, and biomass sorghum; 500 million gallons from oilseed crops, 4.3 billion gallons from crop residues (corn stover, straw), 2.8 billion gallons from woody biomass (logging residues only) and 15 billion gallons from corn starch ethanol.

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