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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"renewable fuel standard"”.
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Water requirement for biorefinery to meet the renewable fuel standard in the contiguous United States
Renewable biofuel production requires a considerable amount of water for biofuel conversion. However, it is still unclear how much water is needed in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) to convert feedstocks to biofuels and the associated impacts on local water availabilities. This study addresses …
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Fundamental price analysis of renewable identification numbers
Under the final RFS1 legislation of 2007, Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) were introduced as the mechanism for tracking compliance with United States government mandated volumes of renewable fuel blending in a given year. Every RIN has a unique code which corresponds to a gallon of …
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Assessing deployment strategies for ethanol and flex fuel vehicles in the U.S. light-duty vehicle fleet
… the next 3-7 years the US light duty fleet and fuel supply will encounter what is commonly referred to as the "blend wall". This phenomenon describes the situation when more ethanol production has been mandated than can be blended legally in the existing gasoline fuel supply. While there are …
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Climate and energy policy for U.S. passenger vehicles : a technology-rich economic modeling and policy analysis
… U.S. households alter their reliance on higher fuel economy vehicles in response to gasoline price changes. Using micro-level household vehicle usage data collected during a period of gasoline price fluctuations in 2008 to 2009, the econometric analysis shows that this short-run vehicle …
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Fueled by crisis : U.S. alternative fuel policy, 1975-2007
… led to three "crash programs" for alternative fuels after energy shocks in the 1970s and early 2000s: (1) the proposed Energy Independence Authority in 1975-1976, (2) the Synthetic Fuels Corporation in 1979-1980, and (3) the revised Renewable Fuel Standard in 2007. These were massively …
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Impacts and Feasibility of the US and the EU Sustainability Criteria on Existing Land-Use Practices
… consequences of national and multi-national biofuel policies. They explored the impacts of biofuels mandates mainly based on the quantitative biofuel targets. However, the recently updated renewable policies of the United States and the European Union, which are the US Renewable Fuel Standard …
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Three essays on the links between agriculture and energy policies in the U.S.
… price and expenditure effects of domestic biofuel policies. The results indicate that the cellulosic biofuel sub-mandate alone could increase biomass prices by an average of 50% to 100% over the baseline values. Biomass expenditures by sectors competing with biofuel producers increase by an …
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Essays on the demand for ethanol in the United States: willingness to pay for E85
… beyond the blend wall and for analysis of the Renewable Fuel Standard. The first study attempts to estimate the distribution of preference for E85 from data generated by a survey of E85 stations in Minnesota. The study uses an extensive sample of recent observations, but estimates of the WTP …
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The impact of biofuel mandates on land use
The use of biofuels in domestic transportation sector in the United States and European Union is attributed mainly to the binding mandates, Renewable Fuel Standard in the US and European Directive on the Promotion of Renewable Energy in the EU. The mandates have triggered production of first …
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Bio-energy system analysis: Profit, planet, and policy
… The existing policy supports such as the Renewable Fuel Standard, Production Tax Credit, Cellulosic Waiver Credit, and Small Refinery Exemption were modified, modeled, and investigated. These policies were evaluated individually and as bundles. Finally, a cost-benefit analysis was employed …
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Reducing the energy demand of bioethanol through salt extractive distillation enabled by electrodialysis
The expanded Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2), established under the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, mandates the production of 136.3 GL/year of renewable fuels in the U.S. in 2022: 56.8 GL/year of corn-ethanol, 60.6 GL/year of second generation biofuels such as cellulosic …
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Assessing drivers of land-use change and biodiversity loss in the United States
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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A dynamic analysis of U.S. biofuels policy impact on land use, greenhouse gas emissions and social welfare
Biofuels have been promoted to achieve energy security and as a solution to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. This dissertation presents a framework to examine the extent to which biofuel policies reduce gasoline consumption and GHG emissions and their …
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Welfare effects of biofuel policies in the presence of environmental externalities and pre-existing distortions
Policy intervention in the biofuel market has led to a significant increase in biofuel production and use in the past several years. However, the welfare effect of biofuel policies, specifically the ethanol tax credit for corn ethanol, ethanol import tariff and renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandate …
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Barriers Impacting United States Advanced Biofuel Projects
… was enacted to help bolster the emerging biofuel industry, 52% of advanced biofuel projects were closed or shut down by 2015. However, there are no complete lists of barriers that impeded these projects. The goal of this study was to develop a framework of barriers impeding success of …
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The welfare cost and greenhouse gas emissions effects of sector-specific energy policies
… of a patchwork of technology and performance standards implemented in different economic sectors and at different levels of government, rather than a more efficient economy-wide carbon tax or cap-and-trade policy. This is evidenced by policies such as state-level Renewable Portfolio Standards …