Vietnam sketches biofuels program - 5.5 billion liters by 2020
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Xinhua. Vietnam has outlined how it will be intensifying its biofuels production over the coming years to serve its transport industry, ensure energy security and better protect the environment and fight global warming.
Under the scheme drafted by the Science & Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry, Vietnam's biofuel policy has been phased and consists of three five-year steps:
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Xinhua. Vietnam has outlined how it will be intensifying its biofuels production over the coming years to serve its transport industry, ensure energy security and better protect the environment and fight global warming.
Under the scheme drafted by the Science & Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry, Vietnam's biofuel policy has been phased and consists of three five-year steps:
- from 2006 to 2010 campaigns to raise public awareness about biofuels will be launched, access to foreign advanced biofuel-related technologies will be sought, infrastructure for distributing the fuel will be built and a modest 30 million liters of ethanol and 20 million liters of biodiesel will be produced on a trial basis.
- the 2011-2015 period will see the country develop facilities to produce and distribute biofuel all over the country, accelerate the use of biotech-improved crops and second generation biofuel conversion technologies so that far more biomass resources can be used, like cassava, sugarcane, potato, soybean, peanut and pineapple, and their waste-streams.
- in 2020, Vietnam hopes to master all advanced technologies necessary to the production so that it can make five billion liters of ethanol and 500 million liters of biodiesel each year (1.3 billion US gallons of ethanol and 130 million gallons of biodiesel), or 100,000 barrels per day (the country currently consumes 260,000 bpd).
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