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Indonesia to conduct B40 road test in February
The government will soon conduct a B40 biodiesel road test as it pushes ahead with its plan to use more palm oil-derived fuel in transportation.
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Nikolai Kunz pumps biodiesel into his car at Dogpatch Biofuels on March 22, 2013 in California, US. California is one of the nation's leaders in venture capital funding for green technology, green tech patents and the growth in clean power generation, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions despite a growth in population. (AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)
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he government will conduct a B40 biodiesel road test in February as it pushes ahead with its plan to use more palm oil-derived fuel in transportation.
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry said on Monday that the test would involve numerous producers and government institutions, namely the Indonesian Automotive Industry Association, the Indonesian Biofuel Producers Association (Aprobi), state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina, the Indonesian Oil Palm Plantations Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS) and the Industry Ministry.
“The test will take up to five months,” the ministry’s New and Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Director General Dadan Kusdiana told reporters during a virtual press conference on Monday.
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The B40 biodiesel program had been slated to be implemented in July 2021, following the success of the earlier B30 program in 2019, but it was postponed by a year.
The government is hoping that increasing the portion of processed crude palm oil in biodiesel will help cut oil imports. Indonesia has long been known as one of the largest fuel importers, be it in the form of crude oil or gasoline.
The ministry finished an initial test on the B40 last year, which granted the government knowledge on specifications it needed to prepare for this year’s test.
