Alternative Diesel Mandates

On June 12, 2009, the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities published the Sustainable Biofuels Act (Law No. 468 of June 12, 2009), which entered into force in 2010. The act defined a blending obligation to fuel suppliers of at least 5.75% by energy content of biofuels in fuels, e.g. gasoline, diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquified petroleum gas (LPG), sold for land transport purposes by 2019. Biofuels can be bioethanol, which is blended into gasoline, biodiesel, which is blended into diesel and biomethane, which is blended into natural gas.

The blending obligation increased to 7.6%, by energy content, from 2020, as per The Biofuels Act (Consolidated Act No. 122 of February 10, 2020). Under the overar