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Biofuels leaders agree robust, consistent policy needs to support decarbonization goals

Leaders from the biofuels industry say the dialog between biofuels and refining communities is changing as efforts increase to decarbonize the economy.

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor says the U.S. simply cannot achieve its climate goals without biofuels.

“The latest government projection is that 79 percent of new vehicle sales in 2050 will be using liquid fuels, so we have got to decarbonize our liquid fuel—that happens with biofuels,” she says.

Renewable Fuels Association CEO Geoff Cooper says for any of it to work, there needs to be fair, consistent carbon standards and methods across the industry.

“We believe we already have that with the Argonne National Laboratories GREET model and we would just ask that everyone in this room embrace and support that model as the national standard,” he says.

Both spoke as part of a biofuels panel Thursday morning during ABLC2022 which encompasses seven concurrent conferences focused on the circular bioeconomy.