1 Indonesia Plans Increase in Palm Oil based Biodiesel In 2025
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JAKARTA, July 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer, is evaluating fuel with a view to increasing to 40% from 35% the share of palm-oil mixed into biodiesel next year, the energy ministry stated.

If implemented, the B40 required might increase biodiesel consumption to approximately 16 million kilolitres (KL) next year, the ministry said, from 13 million KL estimated to be consumed in 2024.

"We hope the trials might be ended up in December, so that complete execution of B40 could be carried out in 2025,” energy ministry senior official Eniya Listiani Dewi stated in a statement on Tuesday.

The Indonesian Biofuel Producers Association (APROBI) said the industry had the capability to satisfy B40 need, with installed capacity anticipated to increase to 20 million KL every year next year from 18 million KL now.

"However we will need more basic materials to satisfy B40 demand,” Ernest Gunawan, the secretary general of APROBI told Reuters on Wednesday.

The biodiesel industry would require 13.9 million metric lots of unrefined palm oil to produce 16 million KL biodiesel next year, from the estimated 11 million lots required this year, he included.

palm oil association GAPKI said a decline in exports suggested there would be sufficient raw products to supply the B40 required for now.

But the market would require to evaluate “which one would be better”, GAPKI chairman Eddy Martono said, describing the possibility an increase in exports would make supplying the domestic market less feasible.

Indonesia’s palm oil output is estimated to reach 54.4 million tons in 2024, a 2.26% boost from last year, while exports are expected to decline by 2.47% to 29.5 million loads as domestic consumption rose, driven by biodiesel required.

The ministry had actually checked the biodiesel, blended with 40% of palm oil, on a train for the very first time previously today, while preparing to check the B40 mix on farming equipment, power plants and in the shipping market, it stated. (Reporting by Bernadette Christina and Dewi Kurniawati