1、德国生物柴油_市场趋势与竞争FEED AND INDUSTRIAL RAW MATERIAL: Industrial Materials and Biofuel 337 Biodiesel in Germany - market trends and competition Dieter Bockey Union for Promoting Oil and Protein Plants, 10117 Berlin Email: Abstract According to experts opinion, for now, only biofuels as an alternative to
2、fossil fuels will be able to make a noteworthy contribution to secure mobility in the short to medium term. This was emphasised by the Association of the German Automobile Industry (VDA) in February 7view of the rapidly growing capacities, the Federal Government and the European Commission must see
3、to the fact that the European standard for diesel fuels will allow a 10 vol % admixture of Biodiesel. The EU Commission also upon request of the German Government supplied a draft of a mandate to the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) for the consideration of a revision of the standard as
4、soon as possible in consensus with the industry concerned. After all, in recent years about EUR 400 to EUR 500 million were invested into the build-up of the biodiesel production. Given the taxation of biodiesel according to the Energy Tax Act 2007, there is a legitimate fear that overcapacities can
5、not be ruled out and the pressure to export biodiesel will increase. However, by no means is there an existing internal EU market for biofuels on the contrary, some countries, especially France, implement a policy of impeding imports. As a result of French tendering procedures virtually no biofuel p
6、roducers other than French ones can do business in France. In contrast, French enterprises can export biodiesel to Germany at all times and without any quantity restrictions. Today Germany is not only the worlds leading producer of biodiesel but as a result also ahead with regard to the development
7、of production plant technology. The large increase of enquiries from abroad, concerning visits to production facilities, confirms the growing international interest in German plant engineering and construction technology which is turning into a grand success. The sustainable supply with rapeseed oil
8、 as raw material is a crucial strategic element to ensure the competitiveness of a biodiesel production plant. Especially in years when due to weather conditions the crop does not live up to expectations, high vegetable oil prices and/or the missing availability of rapeseed oil could threat the exis
9、tence of the production plants. Therefore, the plants location and effective access to the infrastructure, especially to navigable rivers and canals, is vital for its competitiveness. As a consequence of the increasing demand for rapeseed oil, the crushing capacity of oil mills will increase from 6
10、million tonnes at present to 7.5 million tonnes by the end of 2007. Existing oil mills will either be enlarged or integrated into biodiesel production plants or built in direct proximity. 340 FEED AND INDUSTRIAL RAW MATERIAL: Industrial Materials and Biofuel Establishment of biodiesel on the market
11、Parallel to the capacity development, biodiesel sales achieved again an all-time peak value of all in all 1.8 mio.tonnes in the year 2005 and estimated 2,2 mio. tonnes 2006. In 2005 about 1.5 million tonnes of biodiesel were sourced from domestic production, while already 300,000 to 400,000 tonnes w
12、ere imported. Reliable statistical data is not available so far, due to still missing integration of biofuel data in the relevant mineral oil statistics. Nonetheless, biofuels are subject to the same obligation to report as fossil fuels. So there is still a need for the creation of a reporting netwo
13、rk which is under discussion at present amongst the responsible authorities (Federal Ministry of Finance, Federal Ministry for Economy, Federal Ministry for the Environment and Federal Ministry for Agriculture) and the biofuel industry. According to an assessment carried out by (AGQM Arbeitsgemeinsc
14、haft Qualit?tsmanagement Biodiesel e.V. / Association for the Quality Management of Biodiesel e.V .agqm-biodiesel.de.) (January 2006), filling station operators invested some 8 million Euros for the construction and conversion of public biodiesel filling stations in 2005 alone, totalling about 35 million Euros since 1996. For those companies, with a sold quantity of about
