Liquid biofuels for transport; supply, consumption and blending

This table contains figures on the supply and consumption of biofuels and the amount of biofuels that are blended into ordinary petrol and diesel. There are also figures on the production capacity of biofuels. The figures are available both for the total biofuels and for the two types of biofuels used in road traffic and mobile equipment, namely bio gasoline and biodiesel.

The supply of biofuels on the domestic market is equal to the sum of production, the import balance (net imports) and the stock movements of biofuels minus bunkers for transport abroad. The import balance also distinguishes between pure and blended biofuels.

Consumption is equated with deliveries from oil companies to pumping stations in the Netherlands. For the most part, the deliveries are biofuels that have been blended into ordinary diesel and petrol and are therefore no longer recognizable as biofuels.

Data available from: 2006, annually

Status of the figures: This table contains definite figures up to and including 2020 and revised provisional figures for 2021.

Changes as of December 15th 2022: 2020 and 2021 figures have been updated and are now respectively definite and revised provisional. Figures in this table are revised from 2015 until and including 2019. The revision of Biodiesel data is a consequence of improvements in the figures about total Diesel for road transportation, construction and agriculture (also see the explanation in the Energy balance sheet. As Biodiesel is blended with Diesel for consumption this adjustment has an influence on blended Biodiesel as viewed in this table. The consumption of Biodiesel in road transportation will be a little lower and consumption of Biodiesel for construction and agriculture will be a little higher. The adjustments are in the range of several hundreds of TJ. Additionally a technical error is restored in the data for the supply of Biodiesel in the years from 2006 until and including 2013.

Changes as of June 2022: Provisional figures of 2021 have been added.

When will new figures be published? Revised provisional figures for the previous year appear in June each year. Definite figures for the previous year appear in December each year and also new updates of the revised provisional figures will be adjusted.