Fuels Program Lead @TheICCT. Interested in climate change, transportation, cooking and Philly sports. Views=my own.
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A few quick thoughts on yesterday's #SAF tax credit announcement from US Treasury. It's a mixed bag--there's a few promising elements, but a few components of the methodology that are political compromises.
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All together, a pathway like corn ethanol-to-jet starts from a high EF using default assumptions (even with the lower ILUC factor)--about an 18% reduction from the fossil baseline or 30% with CSA's. But there are many opportunities to use CCS, RE or RNG to reduce direct emissions
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NEW: Documents and recordings obtained by @ariellesamuel detail a multi-million dollar plan by the propane lobby to spin propane - a fossil fuel - as "clean" and "renewable"
Read our investigation co-published today with the @guardian:
heated.world/p/the-propane-i…
"Moo hydrogen" lives on in CARB's proposal for the LCFS revision. Loose, book-and-claim accounting for a dairy manure offset paired with bog standard gray hydrogen (to the tune of $5/kg) lives on till deliverability requirements kick in *squints*... in 2045
Fuels expert @Mittonius at @TheICCT highlights how the LCFS squanders subsidies on existing, polluting technology and undercuts investments in green hydrogen:
theicct.org/lcfs-hydrogen-cr…
If the Administration allows for dairy biogas book-and-claim to count for hydrogen production, i.e., "Moo hydrogen" as in California, it would undermine a lot of the good will on electricity additionality. It's essentially gray hydrogen paired with a carbon offset.
Read more here about California's situation. It is much easier and more valuable in California or a gray hydrogen producer using natural gas to purchase the rights to avoided manure methane somewhere else in the country. Let's not repeat that federally.
theicct.org/lcfs-hydrogen-cr…