The £27m ($38.5m) centre, which will have research hubs at six universities and will work closely with industrial partners, represents the UK’s biggest ever investment into bioenergy research.
The UK’s transportation sector is a major hurdle in reaching the country’s emissions reduction targets for 2020. Transportation accounts for around a quarter of the UK’s emissions, government data show.
In April 2008, the UK mandated that at least 2.5%