报告：截至2025年底我国已建成绿色燃料产能约每年800万吨油当量Report: China Had About 8 Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent per Year of Green Fuel Capacity by End-2025

Green Fuel International Business Network has learned that on August 6, the National Energy Administration released the "China Green Fuel Development Report 2026", whose data show that by the end of 2025 China had built green fuel production capacity totaling about 8 million tonnes of oil equivalent per year. It is understood that this is China's first panoramic report in the green fuel field.

Green fuel refers to fuels represented by green methanol, green synthetic ammonia, green aviation fuel, biofuel ethanol, biodiesel and biomethane that meet ecological and environmental protection requirements and have relatively low carbon emissions over their full life cycle. Developing green fuels helps strengthen energy self-sufficiency, helps reduce carbon emissions and supports the global response to climate change, and also helps the non-electric use of new energy and promotes the building of a new-type energy system.

At present, China's green fuel industry has formed a diversified structure of "traditional biofuels as the foundation and emerging green fuels growing rapidly". Among them, biofuels are the "ballast stone" of China's green fuel industry; data show that China's biofuel ethanol annual capacity has reached 5.3 million tonnes, biodiesel annual capacity is about 3 million tonnes, and 146 biomethane projects have been built with an annual capacity of about 1 billion cubic meters.

In the emerging green fuel track, by the end of 2025 China had built 6 green methanol projects with a capacity of about 380,000 tonnes per year, 3 green synthetic ammonia projects with an annual capacity of 700,000 tonnes, and green aviation fuel capacity of about 1.7 million tonnes per year. At present, China's shipping sector has achieved bunkering of green fuels across all categories, ten key airports in the aviation sector have blending and bunkering capability, and application pilots in the industrial and power generation sectors are advancing steadily.

The report also objectively points out the real difficulties and challenges facing the green fuel industry: first, production costs are relatively high - China's green fuel industry is generally in an early stage of development with a small capacity scale, and production costs are 1.5 to 2 times those of traditional fossil fuels; second, the international market faces uncertainty; third, technology and equipment need improvement, as the level of technology and equipment for biomass gasification, flexible production of hydrogen, ammonia and methanol, and carbon dioxide hydrogenation synthesis has yet to be raised.

The report makes clear that the 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for cultivating and developing China's green fuel industry, and that relevant departments will uphold five principles - systematic planning, pilots first, innovation leadership, optimizing the environment and demand-driven development - to promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry. Li Zhijian, vice president of the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Planning Institute, said that technological breakthroughs and industrialization pilots should continue to be the core focus, coordinating international and domestic markets, actively participating in the building of the international green fuel market and accelerating the cultivation of domestic application scenarios. Zheng Zhaohui, vice president of the China Industry Development Promotion Association, said that as technology and equipment continue to iterate, market demand is gradually activated and policy dividends are continuously released, green fuels will become important support for safeguarding energy security, promoting green transition and cultivating new quality productive forces.