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This page last reviewed May 29, 2009
Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Program
This page provides information regarding ARB's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Program pursuant to the
California Assembly Bill AB 32 and the
Governor's Executive Order S-01-07.
Executive Order S-1-07, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) (issued on
January 18, 2007), calls for a reduction of at least 10 percent in the
carbon intensity of California's transportation fuels by 2020. It
instructed the California Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate
activities between the University of California, the California Energy
Commission and other state agencies to develop and propose a draft
compliance schedule to meet the 2020 target. Furthermore, it directed
ARB to consider initiating a regulatory proceedings to establish and
implement the LCFS. In response, ARB identified the LCFS as an early
action item with a regulation to be adopted and implemented by 2010.
What's New
- Presentations delivered to USEPA (PDF), The CA Farm Bureau (PDF), and ASABE (PDF).
- Final Resolution 09-31 and Attachment B now are available in the ARB Board Hearing website
 - Draft Relsolution 09-31 regarding the new Low Carbon Fuel
Standard
and Attachment B regarding Suggested Modifications to the
ISOR.
(See Board Hearing Documents section below)
- Introduce
LCFS
Peer Review website
regarding relevant information of peer review for the proposed
Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation.
- April 23, 2009: ARB
Board Hearing to consider the LCFS Regulation. For
more information...
- March 5, 2009: Low Carbon
Fuel
Standard Board Hearing Documents (see
details below)
Board Hearing
Documents
LCFS Working Groups
1.
Lifecycle Analysis: Investigation of
the lifecycle of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gases of available
transportation fuel pathways (so called Well-to-Wheel or WTW) including
Sustainability, Land Use Conversion, Fuel Co-products, Default Values,
Uncertainty, etc.)
- Detailed
California-Modified GREET Pathway for Transportation Fuels:
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Fuels Pathways
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Version 1 |
Version 2 |
Version 2.1 |
| CARBOB (California
Gasoline
Blendstock) |
Apr 22, 2008 (PDF-657k)
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Jan 12,
2009 (PDF-365k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-434k)
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| CaRFG (California
Reformulated
Gasoline) |
Apr 22, 2008 (PDF-271k)
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Jan 12,
2009 (PDF-
96k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-99k)
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| ULSD (California Ultra Low
Sulfur
Diesel) |
Apr 22, 2008 (PDF-675k)
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Jan 12,
2009 (PDF-358k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-596k)
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| Corn Ethanol |
Apr 22, 2008 (PDF-835k)
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Jan 20,
2009 (PDF-459k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-461k)
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| Sugarcane Ethanol from
Brazil |
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Jan 12,
2009 (PDF-177k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-223k)
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| Cellulosic Ethanol (Farmed
Trees) |
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Jan 20,
2009 (PDF-324k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-352k)
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| Cellulosic Ethanol (Forest
Waste) |
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-411k)
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| Biodiesel (Soybean) |
Oct 3, 2008 (PDF-148k)
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Jan 20,
2009 (PDF-278k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-306k)
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| Renewable Diesel (Soybean) |
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-285k)
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| Compressed Natural Gas
(CNG) from North American
Natural Gas |
Apr 22, 2008 (PDF-580k)
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Jan 12,
2009 (PDF-490k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-572k)
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| Landfill Gas to CNG |
Oct 3, 2008 (PDF-151k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-196k)
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| Electricity (California
Mix) |
Apr 22, 2008 (PDF-682k)
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Jan 20,
2009 (PDF-305k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-295k)
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| Hydrogen (Gaseous
Hydrogen from North
American Natural Gas) |
Jul 29, 2008 (PDF-148k)
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Jan 20,
2009 (PDF-160k)
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Feb 27, 2009 (PDF-243k)
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- February
2009: Estimated Carbon Intensity for Renewable Diesel
from Tallow (XLS-69k)
- February
2009: GTAP
model and modeling files: Corn Ethanol and
Soy Biodiesel (ZIP-5,246k),
and Sugarcane Ethanol (ZIP-4,864k)
- February
2009: Updated California-GREET Model
version
1.8b (modified by Life
Cycle
Associates LLC) (XLS-15.36Mb)
- June
30, 2008: Draft Calculation of Land Use Change for Bio-fuels production
utilized GTAP model (Global Trade Analysis Project) by University of
California - Berkeley (XLS-1mb)
- March
18, 2008: GREET Seminar presented by Michael Wang from Argonne National
Laboratory. For
more
information...
2. Compliance and
Enforcement: Development of the Compliance Tools and
Enforcement Protocol for the LCFS such as tracking, certification, and
enforcement of fuels and fuel feedstock of LCFS.
3.
Policy and Regulatory: Examination and
Recommendations of the appropriate Policy and Regulatory frameworks for
LCFS Program in accordance to the California Legislature mandates and
Governor's Executive Orders.
- January
29, 2009: Revisions to the Draft LCFS Regulation
(PDF-110k)
- December
1, 2008: Changes to the Draft Regulation for the
California
Low Carbon Fuel Standard (PDF-196k)
(as of December 1,
2008)
- October
10, 2008: The Draft Regulation for the California Low
Carbon
Fuel Standard (PDF-200k)
- March
20, 2008: Proposed Concept Outline for the California
Low
Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation (PDF-
186k)
4.
Environmental and Economic: Evaluation
of
Economic and Environmental Impacts of the LCFS Program including Cost
Effectiveness, Environmental Justice, Multimedia Impacts, etc. of the
LCFS Program.
- December
2008: Proposed Economic (PDF-35k)
and
Environmental
(PDF-30k)
Analysis Workplans
for the LCFS.
Public Comments
- Public
Comments received prior than 45-day Board Hearing comment
period (before March 5, 2009)
Computation
Modeling Softwares Used
1)
Life Cycle Analysis (without Land Use Change Estimate)
2)
Land Use Change Assessment
- February 2009: Biofuel Time - Integrated
Model of
Emission (BTIME) version 1.1 (by UC Berkeley, UC
Davis, and Union of Concerned Scientists) - Modified by California Air
Resources Board (XLS-696k)
(used in the
indirect LUC calculation of the LCFS Staff Report)
- February 2009: Emission Factor Tables
(GTAP,
Woods
Hole) (XLS-232k)
- July 2008: GTAP Model
version 6 from Purdue
University, used to estimate the Land Use Change effect in biofuels for
the LCFS Regulatory Process:
- October 2008: RunGTAP
version used for the corn
ethanol analysis by ARB, UC Berkeley, and Purdue University:
- It
will require user to log in and verify that you have a version 6 data
base.
- Individuals
wishing to access must login separately.
- Useful
reference papers for any written work using this model (PDF-20k)
- June 30, 2008: Release of
Draft of Land Use Change Calculation for
Bio-fuels Production by University of California of Berkeley (GTAP
model) (XLS-1mb)
3) June 2007:
A preliminary
version of the VISION-CA model has been
posted online. This model was used to construct the scenarios presented
in Part I of the UC LCFS study. Please visit the UC Davis -
Institute
of Transportation Studies website for more
information.
Background
Information
- California
Governor Executive Order S-01-07 (January 2007) (PDF-27k)
- Governor
Schwarzenegger's Website: Low
Carbon Fuel
Standard
- The
Governor Office White Paper (January 2007) (PDF-149k)
- California
Assembly Bill AB 32 - Global Warming Solutions Act (Nunez - 2006)
(PDF-88k)
- Supporting Website
- California
Assembly Bill AB 1007 (Pavley - 2005) (PDF-79k)
- Supporting Website
- California
Assembly Bill AB 1493 (Pavley - 2002) (PDF-29k)
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Supporting Website
- UC
Davis - Institute
of
Transportation Studies - Analysis of
California's LCFS
- UC
Berkeley - Transportation
Sustainability Research Center - Low-Carbon Fuel
Standard Project
- ARB
Presentation
at the Board
Hearing June
21 & 22, 2007 considered approval
of a list of proposed early actions measures to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
- U.S
EPA - Regulation
of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Renewable Fuel Standard Program (May 2007)
- Final
Rule
- European
and Others Experiences:
- Low
Carbon Fuel Activities in United Kingdom (2007)
- Carbon and Sustainability Reporting Within the
Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation Requirements and Guidance (PDF-1.87mb)
- Carbon Reporting within the Renewable Transport
Fuel Obligation Methodology (PDF-611k)
- Low
Carbon Fuel Activities in Canada (2008)
- University of California Study: A
Low-Carbon
Fuel
Standard for California - The final report was
produced by the University of California for the State in response to
the Executive Order S-1-07 - Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
- May 28-30, 2008: California
Biomass
Collaborative 5th Annual Forum by joining with California Energy
Commission, the California Institute for Food and Agricultural
Research, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies,
the California Air Resources Board, and the University of California -
Davis to present a 3-day program on bioenergy sustainability and
lifecycle analysis (PDF-46k)
Other Information
Existing Fuels
Regulations
Related Links
Related Literature
Low
Carbon Fuel Standard Overview
- "Low Carbon Fuel Standards" by Daniel
Sperling
and Sonia Yeh, Winter 2009, Issues in Science and Technology -
publication of the National Academies (PDF-356k)
Bio-fuels
Policy
- UC
Davis Report for the Western Governors' Association, June 27 2008:
Strategic Development of Bioenergy in the Western States
- "Task 3: Spatial
Analysis and Supply Curve Development" (PDF-9.6Mb)
Lifecycle
Analysis
Land
Use from Biofuels Diversity
Co-Products
for Biofuels
- Institute
of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis Incorporating
the
Effect of Price Changes on CO2-Equivalent Emissions from Alternative
Fuel Lifecycles: Scoping the Issues DRAFT Research
Report UCD-ITS-RR-05-19, October 2005, Delucchi, Mark.
- Updated
Energy and
Greenhouse Gas Emission Results of Fuel Ethanol The 15th
International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels, San Diego, CA, September
26-28, 2005, Wang, Michael.
Fuel
pathways
- Institute
of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis Appendix X: Pathway
Diagrams June 20, 2005,
Wang, Guihua, and Delucchi, Mark.
Contact Us
If you have questions regarding this program,
please contact John Courtis, Manager, Alternative Fuels Section via
email at jcourtis@arb.ca.gov
or call (916)
323-2661.
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