The National Petroleum and Natural Gas Agency (ANP) announced on Friday (03/13) the certification of another 11 plants for the National Biofuel Policy (RenovaBio). As of now, these plants are already capable of issuing Decarbonization Credits (CBios). Earlier this week, the Agency had already announced the certification of seven other plants.

Altogether, 60 units have already been certified and are able to issue CBios. Of this total, 49 plants are for ethanol and 11 for biodiesel, which corresponds to 25.5% of the total units under certification.

After certification, the production units still need to go through a last stage, the authorization of the Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro) to register the invoices referring to the certified volumes and effectively start issuing CBios.

Each Decarbonization Credit is equivalent to one ton of carbon that will no longer be released into the atmosphere. It is estimated that by 2028, the fuel matrix in the country will reduce 10% of its carbon emissions.

Fuel distributors have a mandatory target for the acquisition of CBios, established by RenovaBio. The target will be determined annually, according to the amount of fossil fuels sold in the previous year.

Check out the certified plants this week: Colombo, at the Palestina, Santa Albertina and Ariranha units; São José da Estiva; Strand, São José das Colinas unit; Tereos, Sonora Estância unit; Viracool, Castilho and Pitangueiras units; Brenco- Alta Taquari and Água Emended; Potatoes; Lins; Caçu; Continental; FS; MB, from Biosev; and the São Martinho Unit in Pradópolis.

RenovaBio 

RenovaBio is a national policy, instituted by Law 13.576 / 2017, which aims to outline a joint method for recognizing the strategic role of all types of biofuels in the Brazilian energy matrix, both for energy security and for reducing emissions greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

RenovaBio does not propose the creation of a carbon tax, subsidies, deemed credit or volumetric mandates for adding biofuels to fuels and the purpose of CBios commercialization is to offset the sale of fossil and polluting fuels, in compliance with the goals established by the Paris Agreement.