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Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics

Supply of renewable road and non-road mobile machinery fuels under the RTFO in the UK.

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Department for Transport
Published
12 February 2025
Last updated
12 February 2026 — See all updates

The Department for Transport (DfT) publishes provisional and final statistics on renewable fuel supply and trading. We are seeking external users’ views on reducing the frequency of publication of provisional data.

We are inviting users of the RTFO and SAF Mandate statistics to provide comments on the proposed change by the 13th March 2026.

Further details on the consultation can be found here: Change of frequency of Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Mandate Official Statistics: user engagement

Table RF_0103 revision note:

The ‘still in existence’ values for 2023 and 2024 were not accounting for the use of certificates carried over from the previous obligation year.

The incorrect calculation was:

  • certificates still in existence = issued - revoked - redeemed

This has been corrected to:

  • certificates still in existence = issued + carried over from previous year - revoked - redeemed

Also, the 2022 ‘still in existence’ value was corrected as those certificates have since been used. This results in the ‘redeemed’ values for 2022 also being adjusted to the correct value.

These values have been corrected in the following statistical tables:

All values relating to the 2020 and 2021 obligation years in RF_0103 of the 2023 final report statistical tables and the 2021 obligation year values of the 2024 final report statistical tables were copied incorrectly into the tables but have now been updated to reflect the correct values.

The ‘still in existence’ value for the 2025 obligation year in the 2025 second provisional release has been corrected due to a small filtering error in the original production.

These statistics were previously called Renewable fuel statistics and have been renamed to Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics as of February 2025, due to the publication of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) Mandate statistics. The previous renewable fuel statistics can still be accessed from their old URLs.

Due to the SAF Mandate coming into effect as of January 2025, SAF, reported as ‘Avtur (renewable)’ and ‘Aviation turbine fuel (development)’, will not be included in the 2025 obligation year RTFO statistics series, or any year after that. To view data on SAF being supplied to the UK under the SAF Mandate, please go to the Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) Mandate collection page.

Latest RTFO statistics

The supply of renewable fuel (commonly referred to as biofuel) is measured annually as required under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO).

Figures for each reporting year are updated, revised and published quarterly until final. The final report, with a complete dataset for the year, will typically be published in the winter.

Renewable fuel information on current and previous renewable fuel statistics are available.

Data tables

Data on the supply of renewable fuel under the RTFO.

About RTFO data and reports

All the statistics published in this series are official statistics. The department’s view is that all statistics which are not designated as accredited official statistics are robust and have been produced to a suitable standard.

The RTFO is one of the government’s main policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fuel supplied for use in transport. Under the RTFO, all road transport fossil fuel suppliers are required to provide a volume of eligible low carbon fuel as a percentage of the total road and non-road mobile machinery fuels they supply. By 2030, 19.474% of all fuel supplied by fossil fuel companies is required to be approved eligible low carbon fuel. Similarly, under the RTFO, suppliers are also required to submit reports on the carbon and sustainability standards of the low carbon fuels.

All provisional tables contain fuel volumes which are cross-verified with HMRC data. However, as suppliers can provide their data up to 7 months after the obligation period ends, all data published prior to the final report for each obligation period subject to change.

The final figures for each obligation period are usually in report 6. There can be some discrepancy between the provisional and final figures so provisional reports should be viewed as indicative rather than definitive. Further information on provisional data is contained within the data tables themselves.

Updates to this page

Published 12 February 2025
Last updated 12 February 2026 show all updates

  1. Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics 2025: Third provisional release published.

  2. Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics: 2025 Second provisional release and Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics: 2024 final release published.

  3. Latest renewable transport fuel obligation report added.

  4. Latest renewable transport fuel obligation report added.

  5. First published.

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