California accounts for almost all renewable diesel consumption in the USA, however most of it isn’t made within the state. California’s consumption of renewable diesel was greater than eight instances the quantity produced there in 2021. As a substitute, most of California’s renewable diesel was produced in different states or was imported, largely from Singapore.

Renewable diesel is a liquid biofuel that’s chemically equal to petroleum diesel and can be utilized as an additive or substitute for diesel gas in automobiles. Though renewable diesel is much like the extra widespread biodiesel, the fuels differ chemically and in how they’re made, transported, and used. In contrast to biodiesel, renewable diesel will be transported in petroleum pipelines and offered at retail stations with out mixing with petroleum diesel. It’s usually produced at present petroleum refineries which can be retrofitted to make biofuels as a substitute of petroleum merchandise.

California’s renewable diesel consumption grew considerably after its Low Carbon Gas Normal (LCFS) went into impact in 2011. Between 2011 and 2021, consumption grew from 1 million barrels to twenty-eight million barrels per yr, over 18 instances its unique quantity.

The California LCFS requires transportation fuels used within the state to be combined with biofuels to decrease their carbon intensities. California is the one state that provides a rebate to prospects who buy renewable diesel particularly, rising renewable diesel use within the state because it turns into extra economically aggressive with biodiesel. Different states have numerous biodiesel legal guidelines and incentives.

Oregon was the one different state the place renewable diesel was consumed in 2021, but it surely accounted for lower than 1% of the U.S. whole. Oregon requires petroleum diesel gas offered within the state to be blended with both biodiesel or renewable diesel. Starting in 2023, Washington additionally started requiring petroleum diesel to be blended with biodiesel or renewable diesel, but it surely didn’t report any renewable diesel consumption in 2021.

Six states—Louisiana, North Dakota, California, Wyoming, Washington, and Kansas—accounted for all renewable diesel manufacturing in the USA in 2021. Most of the vegetation within the different states have unique agreements to ship the entire renewable diesel they produce to distributors in California.

Louisiana, with its substantial petroleum infrastructure, has been the state with probably the most renewable diesel manufacturing since 2011. Greater than 9 million barrels of renewable diesel was produced in Louisiana in 2021, about 46% of the U.S. whole. A plant positioned in Norco, Louisiana, has the most renewable diesel manufacturing capability in the USA, about 64,000 barrels per day.

U.S. renewable diesel manufacturing capability may greater than double by 2025, boosting home manufacturing. We count on that each renewable diesel manufacturing and consumption will proceed to develop in the USA over the subsequent few years.

You will discover extra info on renewable diesel in addition to different biofuels in our State Power Knowledge System (SEDS). We not too long ago printed new renewable diesel statistics in SEDS, together with annual renewable diesel manufacturing and consumption estimates by state for 2011 by way of 2021. Beforehand, we solely printed U.S.-level renewable diesel manufacturing and consumption information.

Principal contributors: Mickey Francis, Sheila Hayati

Article by way of U.S. EIA’s Immediately In Power weblog.

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