US Grains Council takes ethanol push to Portugal and UK
In the US, the US Grains and BioProducts Council announced it has conducted market development missions to Portugal and the United Kingdom, meeting with government agencies, energy regulators, and private sector companies to build demand for American ethanol in on-road fuel, sustainable aviation fuel, and marine applications.
In Lisbon, the delegation met with Portugal’s national energy regulator and the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology to discuss the country’s biofuel landscape. Portugal is nominally an E5 market but blends at roughly 3 percent in practice, with interest in moving to E10 and no domestic ethanol production to speak of.
In London, the group met with the UK Department for Transport, Valero Energy, LanzaJet, and Fuels Industry UK. The visits were the Council’s first to the UK since the US-UK Economic Prosperity Deal was announced in 2025, with discussions covering higher on-road blending rates, crop-derived SAF, and ethanol as a marine fuel.
Category: Sustainable Marine Fuels
