Rebuilding Europe’s Biofuel Future
Europe’s biofuel sector, battered by dumping, cost inflation, and policy delays, now faces a fragile recovery shaped by new mandates and trade protections.
Over the past three years, the European biofuel sector has endured one of the harshest operating environments in its history. Producers, once buoyed by the promise of clean transport fuels, have faced a toxic mix of collapsing margins, input cost spikes, demand delays, and geopolitical shocks. Many plants have idled. Projects have been paused. And a once-hopeful sector has largely shifted into defensive mode.