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Increasing Biofuel Proliferation via the Optimal Use of Government Incentives
Transportation Journal
  • Meltem E. Denizel-Karakaya, Iowa State University
  • Yoshinori Suzuki, Iowa State University
  • Christopher Anderson, SkyDoc LLC
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
10-1-2020
DOI
10.5325/transportationj.59.4.0399
Abstract

With the increasing public awareness on global warming, the demand for low greenhouse gas emission (GHG) transportation fuel, such as biofuel, is growing rapidly. In the U.S., like many other countries, the government is providing monetary incentives for biofuel displacement of fossil fuel. From the standpoint of biofuel proliferation, it is important that biofuel producers utilize these incentives in the most effective way, because better utilizations of incentives will lead to reduced costs for producers, which in turn will lower biofuel retail prices. Currently, however, biofuel producers are not taking full advantage of these incentives. This industry note introduces a new approach that allows U.S. biofuel producers to improve their practice of using an incentive program called the LCFS (California Low Carbon Fuel Standard). Our method, which is relatively simple, is based on a recent research project conducted with a biofuel manufacturing firm, which aimed to maximize the benefit gained from the LCFS incentive program. We show, by performing numerical experiments with realistic settings, that the method matches or outperforms the current practice, in terms of maximizing gains extracted from the incentive program, under all conditions.

Comments

This accepted article is published as Denizel, M.E.K., Suzuki, Y., Anderson, C., Increasing Biofuel Proliferation via the Optimal Use of Government Incentives. Transportation Journal, 2020 59(4); doi: 10.5325/transportationj.59.4.0399. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
The Pennsylvania State University
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Meltem E. Denizel-Karakaya, Yoshinori Suzuki and Christopher Anderson. "Increasing Biofuel Proliferation via the Optimal Use of Government Incentives" Transportation Journal Vol. 59 Iss. 4 (2020) p. 399 - 419
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/meltem-denizel/4/