The Renewable Fuels Association has congratulated member company Husker Ag LLC, as it recently produced its 1 billionth gallon of ethanol. The Plainview, Nebraska, facility began production in 2003 and expanded its production capacity in 2007.
Attis Industries Inc. has completed the acquisition of a 100 MMgy corn ethanol plant and grain malting operation in Fulton, New York, from Sunoco LP. Attis plans to develop the site into a state-of-the-art green tech campus.
Growth Energy and Casey's General Stores have announced that Casey's will expand its E15 offering to more than 60 new sites this summer. The company attributed this rapid expansion to the EPA's May 31 approval of year-round E15 sales.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has announced a future rail project at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge will allow for expedited shipments of wood pellets. He said development of the project is expected to begin in the near future.
Data recently released by Imperial College London as part of the Drax Electric Insights Quarterly report shows that biomass accounted for 5.3 percent of the Britain's electricity supply mix during the first quarter of 2019.
Now that the EPA has approved E15 for year-round use in conventional gasoline markets, the RFA will host a webinar June 6 to help retailers and others in the supply chain learn how this decision impacts the marketplace.
The RFA hosted a conference call on June 3 to discuss the expected impact of the U.S. EPA's rule to allow year-round sales of E15 on the ethanol industry and fuel retail markets. The call also addressed expected legal challenges to the rule.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts recently signed a bill creating a renewable infrastructure grant program. The bill creates a grant program to provide financial assistance to retailers who undertake projects to dispense and store E15 or higher blends.
The USGC is helping U.S. DDGS suppliers capture more market demand in South Korea through two events held in May that provided updated technical information to formulators, research and development staff and feed industry buyers.
The EPA released its final E15/RIN market reform rule May 31. The rule extends the RVP waiver to E15. It also includes reforms to the RIN market compliance system, although those changes are less severe than those originally proposed by the agency.
The EPA released its final E15/RIN market reform rule May 31. The rule extends the RVP waiver to E15. It also includes reforms to the RIN market compliance system, although those changes are less severe than those originally proposed by the agency.
Market Forces of Fiber
May 31, 2019
Sharing information, ideas and, in this particular case, challenges and precautionary words, is important to the success of the wood pellet industry as a whole.
Hand in Glove
May 31, 2019
The health of the wood pellet industry will forever very tightly correlate with the passion and expertise in selling wood pellet appliances found within the retail segment.
From Risk to Benefit
By Holger Streetz
May 31, 2019
Market development for wood pellets in recent years has been strong, but the increased demand for raw material and larger storage capacities has led to new, challenging hotspots.
The new $115 million LaSalle Lumber Co. LLC facility was dedicated in Urania, Louisiana, May 29. The sawmill will provide residual wood waste from its lumber operations to Drax Biomass's adjacent LaSalle Bioenergy pellet plant.
Rex American Resources Inc. released fiscal first quarter 2019 financial results on May 30, discussing the impact of weather-related interruptions to the company's business and projecting continued low crush margins into the second quarter.
Hanover, New Hampshire-based Dartmouth College has narrowed down potential locations for the Dartmouth Green Energy Project to three options. A final location is expected to be selected by the end of summer.
SPX Cooling Technologies Inc. will showcase its mobile display trailer with displays of field-erected cooling tower components during the upcoming Fuel Ethanol Workshop, June 10-12 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
The Nebraska Ethanol Board is pleased to announce that Roger Berry began working at the board May 28 and will assume the position as NEB's administrator following the next board meeting May 31. Barry previously served at the Nebraska Corn Board.
Summit Natural Gas of Maine has announced a new renewable natural gas (RNG) program under which it will partner with the state's dairy industry to produce home-grown RNG through the construction of an anaerobic digester in Clinton, Maine.
U.K.-based Stobart Group Ltd. released fiscal 2018 financial results on May 29, reporting a 51 percent increase in the volume of biomass fuel it supplied to renewable energy plants when compared to fiscal year 2017.
Vitol has renamed C&N Ethanol Marketing to Vitol Biofuels Marketing. The name change reflects Vitol's continued commitment to developing its ethanol business, both as part of its renewables portfolio and and its core gasoline offering.
European renewable ethanol delivered an average of more than 71 percent greenhouse-gas savings compared to fossil fuels in 2018, well above the minimum legal requirements, according to new certified data from producers.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced sugarcane processing and ethanol production were both down during the first half of May. Sales of ethanol, however, remained strong.
The U.S. EPA recently approved an efficient producer pathway for The Andersons Denison Ethanol LLC, allowing the facility to generate RINs for non-grandfathered volumes of ethanol. The 65 MMgy plant is located in Denison, Iowa.
Velocys plc released 2018 financial results in mid-May, highlighting progress with the development of its proposed biorefineries in Mississippi and the U.K. and discussing the recent close out of the Envia joint venture.
The Renewable Fuels Association has added Ken Colombini to its staff as its new communications director. Colombini has worked as a freelance communications consultant since 2016 and previously was employed by the National Corn Growers Association.
A recent analysis by the U.S. Grains Council shows non-beverage ethanol has been the fastest growing U.S. agricultural export over the past decade by a significant margin, growing 13 percent year-over-year over the past 10 years.
The Canadian government has announced it will invest $13.8 million in Kruger Inc. to support two projects, including one that will allow the company's Corner Brook, Newfoundland, location to produce biomass energy.
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