Production of liquid advanced biofuels - global status

– with a special focus on advanced liquid biofuels. The study is made by CIT Industriell Energi on assignment of the Norwegian environment agency.
The overview is based partly on statistics of historical and current global biofuel production in general, partly on a thorough mapping of existing and planned production plants that may be able to contribute to advanced liquid biofuel production in the period from now until the year 2030.
Based on data from REN21 Renewables 2018 (below), total global biofuel production amounted in 2017 to about 970 TWh, of which 623 ethanol, 284 conventional biodiesel and 61 TWh HVO (about 105, 31 and 6.5 Mm3, respectively). Ethanol production is dominated by the US and Brazil, while biodiesel production is more spread between regions and countries. In statistics for biofuel production, the amount of advanced biofuels are in general not specified separately.