This Week in Energy: Study Says Biofuels Costly, Impacts Questionable

Biomass/Biofuels / Economics

A congressionally requested study by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that next-generation biofuels are costly, and their impacts questionable. Absent major technological innovation or policy changes, the "mandated consumption of 16 billion gallons of ethanol-equivalent cellulosic biofuels is unlikely to be met in 2022," the report stated.