Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origins in the EU: Examining the Legal Framework and its Implications for Sector Coupling
Article from: OGEL 1 (2026), in Renewable Energy
Summary
While the European Union strives to achieve more ambitious climate goals, one of the tactics that it has undertaken in this regard is sector coupling and decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors. Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origins- RFNBOs- can be considered an important tool in addressing sector coupling. The EU put special emphasis on RFNBO development by setting specific targets for transport and industry by the means of the Renewable Energy Directive which is also supplemented by Commission Delegated Acts. There have been voices that perhaps the legal framework ...
