Real life scenario

finland

http://www.troymedia.com/2011/07/07/finland-leading-race-to-convert-biomass-into-biofuels/

Waste from diamond mine site

http://www.nipawinjournal.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3191820

Case study---------- Fuel ethanol in Europe

Sweden is the strongest in the bioethanol transport market with over 912 E85 (BAFF, March 2007) fuel stations and 15,000 Ford Focus FFVs have been sold since it's debut on the Swedish market in 2001. By May 2006, 15% of all newly sold cars were either bioethanol or biogas fuelled vehicles. E85 is being sold at prices substantially less than petrol, between

75 and 85 € cents per litre compared to 1.11 € and 1.19 € for petrol. An important consideration when marketing the price of bioethanol is the fact that ethanol contains around 30% less energy per litre than petrol which means you have to fill up more frequently. Therefore the sale price will have an important impact on take-up of bioethanol as a transport fuel.

Elsewhere in Europe, there are at present (March 2007) 73 bioethanol petrol stations in Germany serving E50, E85 or E100. Morrisons Supermarket chain in the UK supply E85, available from 14 forecourts in the South of England marketed at 2 pence below petrol. However, the bioethanol for Morrisons is supplied from Futura Petroleums, which all comes from Brazilian fuel stocks. Despite the distances involved, it is still competitive to import bioethanol from across the Atlantic instead of producing it locally.

The map and figures below gives you a brief overview of the bioethanol fuel market and the density of E85 stations in comparison with petrol stations. The number of service stations per 10,000 persons gives a useful comparison. While the total number of petrol stations has declined dramatically over the last 20 years, being half or even one third of what they once RESTMAC - Bioethanol Production and Use 11 were, the bioethanol stations are still very low in comparison as they are now just entering into operation in Western Europe with the exception of Sweden.

In Sweden, the first E85 filling station appeared in 1995 but steady expansion started only in 2002

(Saab, 2006).