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STUDY REPORTS CELLULOSIC ETHANOL WON'T BE PRICE COMPETITIVE UNTIL 2020
Nov. 28, 2011
Source: The Brock Report
It will apparently be several years before corn-based ethanol faces much price competition from cellulosic ethanol.
A study published in Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining concluded the production of ethanol from "wood residue, waste paper, used cardboard and straw cannot yet be achieved at the same efficiency and cost as from corn starch" and that it will be 2020 at the earliest before ethanol from these materials will be competitive.
Two of the challenges cited in this study that must be overcome by the cellulosic ethanol industry are a high degree of variability in feedstuffs and expensive pretreatments of the biomass.
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