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Statistics on the supply of renewable fuels, reported under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation for 2022, based on data available as of 10 October 2022.

This is the second of 5 provisional reports for 2021 and therefore contains an incomplete dataset for the year. The final report is scheduled for publication in November 2023. We have incorporated changes to the report and tables as a result of changes to the legislation. Further information on these?changes is available.

The report and accompanying tables includes information on the:

• amount of UK road transport fuel from renewable and fossil fuel
• number of Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates (RTFCs) which have been issued to fuel meeting the sustainability requirements
• balance of RTFCs by obligation period
• trades of RTFCs between suppliers and traders
• carbon and sustainability characteristics of the renewable fuel to which RTFCs have been issued
• voluntary scheme data of renewable transport fuel

Until 2021, to calculate average greenhouse gas (GHG) savings from renewable fuels, we have used the value of 83.8 grammes of CO2 (equivalent) per MJ of energy contained in the fuel (gCO2eq/MJ) to represent the average figure of fossil fuel. Starting from 2022, the RTFO GHG methodology has been updated to use 94 gCO2eq/MJ to calculate GHG savings, in accordance with latest evidence. The method for calculating the average GHG saving has also been updated from an average across fuel consignments to a weighted average taking account the volume and energy content of fuel.

For more details, see thenotes and definitions.

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