Status of Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Facilities in 2012

This report covers the broad range of projects and technologies that are being developed for the production of advanced biofuels worldwide. It provides an overview on who is pursuing existing and planned projects and where. As an update to a report published in 2010, it furthermore provides information on pathways that have been developed successfully and on such that have failed. The aim is to monitor the multi-facetted development, add transparency to the sector and thus support the development and deployment of advanced biofuels production technologies. The report is based on data that was provided by the companies that pursue projects for the production of advanced biofuels themselves. Some level of independent evaluation of this data was performed by the biofuels experts of IEA Bioenergy Task 39. Although efforts have been made to improve coverage in Asia and South America and Africa, major coverage is Europe and North America where the most information is available.