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Germany
Population: 82,400,996 (2007)[1]
GDP (PPP): $2.585 trillion (2006)[1]
Petroleum
– consumption
– imports:
– Gasoline to diesel ratio:
2.65 mil bbl/day (2004)[1]
2.135 mil bbl/day (2003)[1]

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Electricity
– consumption
– Main sources:
524.6 bil kWh (2004)[1]
 ???
Renewable energy targets:  ???
Ethanol
– production:
– target:
– feedstocks:
202 mil gal. (2006)[2]
3.6% mandate by 2010[3]
 ???
Biodiesel
– production:
– target
– feedstocks:
507 mil gal (2005)[4]
6.17% mandate by 2010[3]
Rapeseed

Information about biofuels and bioenergy in Germany.

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Policy

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Events

2009

2008

  • 28-30 October 2008, Berlin, Germany: Biofuels 2008 - 3rd Annual Meeting.
    • This third annual conference will bring together leaders from Europe's biodiesel, ethanol and biogas producers, oil and gas majors, agribusiness companies, governments and regulatory bodies, technology providers and automotive manufacturers amongst others to examine the key issues and challenges at the heart of the region’s biofuels industry. Organized by the World Refining Association. (Themes: biofuels, technology, legislation)

2007

  • 12-14 December 2007, Berlin, Germany: Agrofuels: Opportunity or Danger? A Global Dialogue on U.S. and EU agrofuels and agriculture policies and their impacts on rural development in North and South. December 12-14, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Registration Form and Agenda.

2006

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Issues

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News

  • Tax hike would force German biodiesel closures, 30 July 2008 by The Guardian/Reuters: "Germany's crisis-hit biodiesel industry faces further closures if the government goes ahead with plans to further raise biofuel taxes, a biofuels industry leader said on Wednesday."
    • "Germany's government plans to increase taxes on biodiesel in January 2009 to 21 euro cents a litre, from 15 cents, in the next stage of its programme to raise taxes on green fuels to the same level as fossil fuels."
    • "'Some biodiesel producers will not survive the impact of even higher taxes and it must be expected that there will be more plant closures,'" according to Johannes Lackmann, chief executive of the German biofuels industry association VDB.
    • "Germany's five million tonnes annual capacity biodiesel industry, Europe's largest, has seen a series of plant shutdowns this year."[1]
  • German minister stops biofuel blending plans, 4 April 2008, by Reuters: "German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday he had stopped government plans to raise compulsory bioethanol blending levels in fossil gasoline."
    • "Politicians and industry groups had criticized the plans to raise the level to 10 percent for some gasoline grades from five percent, fearing the increase would damage older cars."
    • "German biofuels industry association VDB welcomed the decision. It had argued that the bioethanol used for blending in Germany was imported largely from third world countries where deforestation may have taken place to expand farmland."
    • "Germany had viewed biofuels blending as a way of achieving reductions in greenhouse gases without imposing restrictions suggested by the European Union which could hit its high performance car industry".[2]
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Industry

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gm.html
  2. ↑ Source: F.O. Licht from Renewable Fuels Associaion
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 modified from a table from the European Commission (2006) Presentation by Paul Hodson (DG Energy and Transport) to Conference “A sustainable path for biofuels”, 7 June 2006. Organised by Birdlife International, EEB and T&E, published in The EU Strategy on Biofuels: from field to fuel by the House of Lords European Union Committee, 20 November 2006)
  4. ↑ F.O. Licht, "World - Biodiesel Production (tonnes)," table, World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, vol. 4, no. 16 (26 April 2006), p. 365. from Earthpolicy.org
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