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Vouchers for fixed contract businesses, guarantees for heavy industry, and investment in biorefining could ease short and long term fuel pain in WA, according to the state's peak business group.

The state government will spend $1.2 million with consultants to chart a path forward for WA's stuttering biofuels sector.

The backer of WA's biggest active biorefinery plan wants to see the federal government's $1.1 billion biofuels fund used to stimulate domestic demand for low carbon fuels.

Biofuel project backers have lauded a large federal government investment into domestic processing capacity as foundational for the nascent sector.

Rio Tinto will test a native tree's suitability as a biodiesel crop in Queensland to offset carbon emissions from its Pilbara mines.

Biofuel gained a foothold in Australia in the mid-noughties, but it wasn't to be. Today a second wave of projects hopes to cement the industry in WA

The state government is probing what needs to be done to ensure the latest attempt to establish a bioenergy industry in WA doesn't suffer the same fate as efforts nearly two decades ago.

A $300 million bioenergy plant to supply renewable fuel to the aviation and trucking industries has been earmarked for Esperance.