Renewable fuels for a resilient society by Dutch Platform Renewable Fuels, German Platform InnoFuels & ETIP Bionergy

Joint Workshop: Renewable Fuels for a resilient society

The Dutch Platform Renewable Fuels, the German Platform InnoFuels and ETIP Bioenergy invite you to join our collaborative online workshop on how renewable fuels can contribute to the resilience of our societies.

We aim to have stakeholders develop propositions together that can organise improved energy resilience, making use of already commercially available renewable fuel conversion technologies, that produce drop-in renewable fuels, distributed and produced in existing infrastructure, and with European feedstock.

We are pleased to invite you to our Online-Workshop, which will take place on 06.November 2025 from 09:00 to 12:15. With this workshop we kick-off of a collaborative effort in which we aim to build the necessary coalition to organise this European renewable fuel system.

Such a system makes use of already commercially available renewable fuel conversion technologies, able to rapidly scale. Moreover, it needs to produce drop-in fuels that can be used in existing engines and infrastructure and make use of the European feedstock base (renewable electricity, biomass, CO ). The inherent decentral character of renewable fuel production also improves the resilience of such a system.

Please find the agenda below.

Joint workshop agenda

• 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome and proposition of renewable Fuels on Resilience
  
  • Loes Knotter of the Platform Renewable Fuels
  • Dr.-Ing. Olaf Toedter (InnoFuels) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Patrik Klintbom (ETIP Bioenergy) Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)

• 09:15 - 10:00 | Part 1: Setting the scene for a proposition of renewable fuels for resilience
  
  • Contributors: Patrick Bosmans (NATO/CEPS) Ville Korhonen (DG ECHO), Frank Schulze (Exolum Gmbh)Discussing:
    • Analysis to set the scene (Platform Renewable Fuels)
    • Mismatch between current renewable fuel production capacity and European feedstock base
    • Military requirements
    • NATO’s single fuel strategy
    • Assessing current instruments for strategic autonomy & resilience in the EU
    • Stockpiling Strategy & Critical Stock Obligation
• 10:00 - 10:15 | Break
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• 10:15 - 11:00 | Part 2: Co-creating a ramp-up proposition of renewable fuels for resilience
  
  • Contributors: Patrik Klintbom (ETIP Bioenergy), Olaf Toedter (KIT), Christian Hanke (German efuel one)
  • Discussing:
    • Questions we have on process engineering: How fast can the sector ramp-up?
    • European-based production with European feedstocks: Avoid material dependencies from overseas
    • Central vs. decentral: How to combine the inherent decentral character of renewable fuel production to current storage & distribution infrastructure
    • Need for Member State collaboration for increased and accelerated test and demo capacity
    • How to combine efuel and biofuel capacity for enhanced production system?
• 11:00 - 11:15 | Break
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• 11:15 - 11:45 | Part 3: How do we organise a new kind of supply system based on renewable fuels?
  
  • Discussing
    
    • How to fast-track collaborations between Member States?
    • Roadmap for enhanced renewable fuel production (renewable electricity, biomass, CO2)
    • Identifying key stakeholders
    • How to apply for funding?
• 11:45 - 12:15 |Closing and next steps
  
  • Loes Knotter (Platform Renewable Fuels)
  • Dr.-Ing. Olaf Toedter (InnoFuels) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Patrik Klintbom (ETIP Bioenergy) Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)

We look forward to your participation and valuable contributions to this important dialogue.
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