PHOTO: BOB MODERSOHN
April 16, 2013
BY Holly Jessen
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The U.S. Grains Council’s Latin America (LTA) Regional Ethanol Consultants Freddy Villao and Juan Sebastian Diaz traveled to El Salvador in September to discuss terms of an MOU to assess an ethanol blending program in the country.
U.S. fuel ethanol production was up 3 percent the week ending Sept. 22, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Sept. 27. Stocks of fuel ethanol were up nearly 2 percent and exports were down 29 percent.
Badger State Ethanol is updating and expanding its grain processing facility to produce 90 MMgy of ethanol along with corn oil and CO2. As a result, surplus processing and support equipment will be sold via a timed online auction.
The Renewable Fuels Association elected officers and its board of directors on Sept. 26 at its annual membership meeting in Des Moines. Erik Huschitt, CEO of Badger State Ethanol, was re-elected as chairman of the organization.
Evident on Sept. 21 announced that World Energy has become the first user of its new, international global standard for SAF. The certification scheme, named Fly-i, will work in a similar way to the procurement of RECs.