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While hydrogen costs, demand, and infrastructure dominate industry attention, carbon dioxide (CO2) is emerging as another potential constraint facing the scale-up of e-fuels.
As clean fuel mandates across shipping and aviation accelerate demand for e-fuels, competition for eligible CO2 is set to intensify across Europe. Yet supply remains limited, increasingly regulated, and structurally tied to industrial processes undergoing decarbonisation.
Analysts at the non-governmental organisation Transport and Environment (T&E) said governance of the molecule will become a key “enabling factor” as e-fuels demand rises.
Even in the group’s “optimistic scenario,” where biogenic carbon is prioritised and CO2 infrastructure unlocks biogenic CO2 potential, T&E warned that “carbon demand of the e-fuels industry will outstrip the biogenic CO2 supply.”
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