
PHOTO: LAUREL BIOCOMPOSITE
April 11, 2016
BY Ann Bailey
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Verbio on Oct. 6 commissioned the world’s first large-scale ethenolysis plant based on rapeseed methyl ester at its Bitterfeld site. The new plant is capable of producing up to 60,000 metric tons of biobased chemicals annually.
As carbon intensity (CI) becomes increasingly important to the value of renewable fuels, the industry is facing a new challenge: making carbon accounting more interoperable between countries, without the adoption of a single, identical model.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration maintained its forecasts for 2026 and 2027 fuel ethanol production in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Oct. 6. The forecasts for ethanol blending and exports were also unchanged.
Vault 44.01 and Cardinal Ethanol are wrapping up Indiana’s first-ever ethanol CCS project.
U.S. fuel ethanol production expanded by nearly 5% the week ending Oct. 2, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Oct. 7. Stocks of fuel ethanol were down nearly 1% and exports expanded by 17%.