Minnesota Low Carbon Fuels Standard Study

This project investigated and developed modeling and analytical frameworks with available data in order to compare the greenhouse gas, economic, and environmental implications of various low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) policies for vehicles operated on Minnesota public roads. The attached reports provide findings of work performed under this contract. A low carbon fuels standard (LCFS) would require any person producing, refining, blending, or importing transportation fuels in Minnesota to reduce these fuels’ average carbon intensity (AFCI), measured across the full fuel cycle: feedstock extraction, production, transport, storage, and use. An LCFS is expected to lower overall emissions from the transportation fleet. The framework was used in part to analyze a performance-based LCFS that measures progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a life cycle basis and the economic and environmental impacts on each transportation fuel and production pathway as compared to the state’s current policies to replace gasoline consumption with 20 percent ethanol by 2013, and to replace diesel consumption with 20 percent biodiesel by 2015.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/pdfdownload.pl?id=1538
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• Summary URL:
  • http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/reportdetail.html?id=2030
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/61307
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  Department of Applied Economics
  St Paul, MN  United States  55108

  Minnesota Department of Commerce

  Office of Energy Security
  St Paul, MN  United States  55101
• Authors:
  • Taff, Steven J
  • Apland, Jeffrey
  • Kittelson, David B
  • Smith, Timothy M
• Publication Date: 2011-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 245p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Greenhouse gases; Policy; Standards
• Uncontrolled Terms: Low carbon fuels
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Environment; Highways; Policy; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01343321
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: B24112
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 29 2011 4:25PM