Biofuel in the European Union

According to the European Union sustainability criteria: land with high carbon stocks and high biodiversity should not be converted for biofuel production and biofuels should achieve a minimum level of greenhouse gas savings.^[1]

Biofuels^[2]^[3]
		Consumption 2005 (GWh)	Consumption 2006 (GWh)			Consumption 2007 (GWh)
No	Country	Total	Total	Biodiesel	Bioethanol	Total	Biodiesel	Bioethanol
1	Germany*	21,703	40,417	29,447	3,544	46,552	34,395	3,408
2	France	4,874	8,574	6,855	1,719	16,680	13,506	3,174
3	Austria	920	3,878	3,878	0	4,524	4,270	254
4	Spain	1,583	1,961	629	1,332	4,341	3,031	1,310
5	United Kingdom	793	2,097	1,533	563	4,055	3,148	907
6	Sweden*	1,938	2,587	523	1,894	3,271	1,158	2,113
7	Portugal	2	818	818	0	1,847	1,847	0
8	Italy	2 059	1,732	1,732	0	1,621	1 621	0
9	Bulgaria		96	96	0	1,308	539	769
10	Poland	481	1 102	491	611	1,171	180	991
11	Belgium	0	10	10	0	1,061	1,061	0
12	Greece	32	540	540	0	940	940	0
13	Lithuania	97	226	162	64	612	477	135
14	Luxembourg	7	6	6	0	407	397	10
15	Czech Republic	33	226	213	13	382	380	2
16	Slovenia	58	50	48	2	160	151	9
17	Slovakia	110	153	149	4	154	n.a.	154
18	Hungary	28	139	4	136	107	0	107
19	Netherlands	0	371	172	179	101	n.a.	101
20	Ireland	9	36	8	13	97	27	54
21	Denmark	0	42	0	42	70	0	70
22	Latvia	34	29	17	12	20	0	20
23	Finland	0	10	0	10	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
24	Romania	–	32	32	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
25	Malta	8	10	10	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
26	Estonia	0	7	7	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
27	Cyprus	0	0	0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
27	EU	34,796	65,148	47,380	10,138	89,482	67,154	13,563
*Total includes vegetable oils in Germany: 7309 GWh (2006) and 2018 GWh (2005) and biogas in Sweden: 225 GWh (2006) and 160 GWh (2005), n.a. = not available

References

Bioenergy

Biofuels	Alcohol Algae fuel Bagasse Babassu oil Biobutanol Biodiesel Biogas Biogasoline Corn stover Ethanol cellulosic mixtures Methanol Stover Corn stover Straw Cooking oil Vegetable oil Wood gas

Energy from foodstock	Barley Cassava Grape Hemp Maize Oat Palm oil Potato Rapeseed Rice Sorghum bicolor Soybean Sugarcane Sugar beet Sunflower Wheat Yam

Non-food energy crops	Arundo Big bluestem Camelina Chinese tallow Duckweed Jatropha curcas Millettia pinnata Miscanthus giganteus Switchgrass Wood fuel

Technology	Bioconversion Biomass heating systems Biorefinery Fischer–Tropsch process Industrial biotechnology Pellets mill stove Thermal depolymerization

Concepts	Cellulosic ethanol commercialization Energy content of biofuel Energy crop Energy forestry EROEI Food vs. fuel Issues Sustainable biofuel