Biodiesel grants scheme

The Biodiesel Grants Scheme aims to kickstart the biodiesel production industry in New Zealand. 

It is designed to:

• Provide support for the growing New Zealand biodiesel manufacturing industry as an economic development measure
• Offer comparable treatment with bioethanol for biodiesel
• Diversify the New Zealand fuel market; and
• Encourage the adoption of environmentally responsible fuels which reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the scheme, which started on 1 July 2009, a grant of up to 42.5 cents per litre for biodiesel or biodiesel content of a biodiesel blend will be available to biodiesel producers. The grant will be payable monthly in arrears to producers whose product sales amount to, or are in excess of 10,000 litres, B100 content, (100% biodiesel) per month.

More information on the Biodiesel Grants Scheme