Indonesia is considering imposing law by the consumption of biofuels
The Government of Indonesia, the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, studying law by imposing gradually from September and consumption of biofuels to reduce their emissions and combat climate change, official sources reported today.
The project of the Department of Energy Resources Indonesian raises set as mandatory use of biodiesel and bioethanol in Jakarta first and then progressively across the country.
It is expected that the new regulation also set at around 3 percent the minimum proportion of non-fossil fuel that must be biodiesel and bioethanol.
The initiative is at an early stage of development where they are also involved business associations and collectives of national energy sector.
At present, the state oil company Pertamina sells indonesia biofuels which have only one percent of non-fossil fuels.
The company began selling this type of fuel considered more environmentally friendly in 2006 with a 5 per cent of non-fossil components, but the hike of palm oil, the main raw material for fuel, did state that the company reduced the ratio to 2, 5 per cent first and later to one percent.
Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil this year will produce about 18.6 million tonnes of this raw material, which will be around one million kilolitres biodiesel.
In addition, Indonesia has the capacity to produce around 110,000 kilolitres bioethanol a year.
However, the country consumed only 16,000 kilolitres of 1,000 kilolitres biodiesel and bioethanol in 2007.
Source: Terra current (actualidad.terra.es)