Transport: Alternative Fuels

(asked on 15th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to increase the production of low carbon fuels for all logistics transport modes.


Answered by
Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 18th May 2023

The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), is the main scheme in the UK supporting producers of low carbon transport fuels. It stimulates the production of low carbon fuels by setting volume targets for their supply in road transport and non-road mobile machinery, with targets rising from 14.22% in 2023, to 17.4% from 2032 onwards.

The RTFO does not prescribe the volume in which renewable fuels must be supplied by sector. It provides flexibility to producers of low carbon fuels to determine where to deploy them and this may include logistics sectors. This enables targets to be met in a way that minimises cost to the consumer.

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