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Biofuels Act
The Biofuels Act adopted in late 2006 went into force in January 2007, mandating various minimum percentages of locally-sourced biofuels (meeting certain standards) to be blended into liquid fuels for motors and engines.
It requires a minimum 1% biodiesel blend by volume in all diesel fuels within 3 months of the Act’s enforcement, and 5% bioethanol blend by volume within two years in all gasoline fuels being distributed and sold in the Philippines. This volumes are to progressively increase; for biodiesel to 2% within 2 years, and for bioethanol to 10% within four years.
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Alternative Motor Fuels Act
The Alternative Motor Fuels Act (AMFA) encourages the production of motor vehicles that use ethanol, methanol, or natural gas fuels, either exclusively or as an alternate fuel in conjunction with gasoline or diesel fuel. This incentive gives a credit of up to 1.2 mpg toward an automobile manufacturers average fuel economy which helps it avoid penalties of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
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Rural Electrification Policy
The Fiji Rural Electrification Policy 1993 has been used by the Fiji Department of Energy in the implementation of rural electrification projects which includes diesel schemes for villages, micro hydro projects, house wiring, biofuel projects, solar home systems and grid extension. Villages and communities have been paying 10% of the total project costs and goverment pays 90%. In 2010, government reduced the contribution from communities to 5% and this has increased the number of applicants. The Fiji Department of Energy will be reviewing the policy in 2014.
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Minimum biofuel requirement
In 2006, a Government Decree on the minimum proportion of fuels produced from renewable sources in petrol and diesel marketed within the Slovak Republic was established. The level of obligation was fixed at 2% from the end of 2006 till 2008, 3.75% for the year 2009, and then at 5.75% by the end of 2010.
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Biodiesel tax exemption
Retroactively effective 1 January 2009, Order 134/2009, establishes an exemption from the Tax on Petroleum and Energy Products (ISP) of EUR 280 per 1000 litres of biofuel replacing diesel.
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Biodiesel Competitiveness Plan
Aimed at promoting renewable sources of energy, the Biodiesel Competitiveness Plan establishes an exemption for biodiesel from the Fuel Transfer Tax (equivalent to approximately USD 0.05 per litre diesel) for a period of ten years. It also provides for special arrangements regarding the capital gain tax for investments in biodiesel facilities, with an accelerated repayment for new facilities. Companies engaging in biodiesel production activities are exempt from the minimum capital gain tax as of 1 January 2002. The federal government encourages provinces to adhere to the Plan, and in doing so provincial government are to exempt producers, storage and…
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Transport energy law
Transport energy law sets the GHG emission intensity reduction obligation starting 2030 and advanced biofuels shares targets on fuel suppliers starting 2027. It also terminates, until the end of 2029, the continuation of current biofuels blending obligation: 7% (6,5 volume %) blend for diesel and 10% (9,5 volume %) blend for petrol.
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Amended law of 17 December 2010 setting excise duties and similar taxes on energy products, electricity, manufactured tobacco products, alcohol and alcoholic beverages
The law is fixing on a yearly basis the percentage of renewable energy, mainly biofuels, to be incorporated by economic operators selling petrol and diesel for road transport on the market, according to the provisions of the directive 2023/2413 amending directive 2018/2001 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources. The percentage, based on energy content is fixed at 9%.
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Daniel Wetzel
Head of Tracking Sustainable Transitions Unit. Daniel Wetzel leads the newly created Tracking Sustainable Transitions unit within the World Energy Outlook, which tracks how policy measures are actually moving the needle on clean energy transitions, energy access, and energy employment. He was one of the lead author’s on the IEA’s Sustainable Recovery report, the IEA’s Sustainable Recovery Tracker, and coordinated IEA’s co-custodianship on Tracking Progress on Sustainable Development Goal 7.1: Universal Access. Daniel also oversees the employment and parts of the demand analysis in the annual World Energy Outlook. Prior to joining the IEA, Daniel worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute in their Beijing office, leading their Power Market Reform program, and also in Colorado, working on regional energy transition plans.
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Joe Ritchie
Former Energy Policy analyst.
