Study Predicts Cellulosic Ethanol Won't Contribute to Renewable Fuel Targets by 2022

Environmental Protection
•May 19, 2011

A new study evaluates the viability of the wood-based transportation fuel sector in the United States. Wood biofuel projects attract strong private and public investment, and advance federal energy policy objectives. Published by Forisk Consulting and the Schiamberg Group, the study details 12 technologies and 36 projects that convert wood to fuels including ethanol, butanol, diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel. Projects producing drop-in fuels have superior potential for investors. Wood-based biofuels will fail to contribute substantively to EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard targets in 2011 or 2022.

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