The Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (Cewep) and the European Suppliers of Wte Technology (Eswet) along with other European industry associations are calling for sustainable alternative fuels to be give a more substantial and more clearly defined role under the EU's proposed Net-Zero Industry Act. Presented by the Commission in March of this year, the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) is intended to help manufacturing capacity for "net zero technologies" be scaled up more quickly, in part by removing administrative hurdles and encouraging investment.
However, some of the proposed legislation's measures, such as limits on the duration of the permitting process or a 40 per cent manufacturing capacity benchmark, apply only to a short list of "strategic net zero technologies". That list contains technologies for "sustainable biogas / biomethane" among its eight entries, but not the more inclusive category of "sustainable alternative fuels"....
