We want to hear from you about the retail market for E10
IPART has commenced work monitoring the retail market for E10.
We have published a Consultation Paper and we want to hear from a range of stakeholders on:
- recent developments in the retail and wholesale markets for E10
- the factors influencing E10 availability, sales and pricing
- the effect of IPART’s determined reasonable price for wholesale ethanol on the retail market for E10
- whether our approach to determining the reasonable price for wholesale ethanol remains appropriate.
Stakeholders can make a submission until 30 September 2026.
The determined price of ethanol is 158.1 cents per litre (excluding GST)
Under the Biofuels Act 2007, fuel sellers must ensure that 6% of fuel sold is ethanol. This means that 60% of fuel sales would need to be E10 (which is made up of 10% ethanol, and 90% unleaded fuel).
Fuel sellers can be exempt from this requirement on various grounds. One of these is that the wholesale price of ethanol paid by retailers exceeds the price determined by IPART.
Every 6 months we determine a reasonable wholesale price of ethanol. The current price for fuel ethanol from 1 March 2026 is 158.1 cents per litre (excluding GST).
You can find our determinations before 2023 here.