Digging Deeper: Ethanol’s Role In the Carbon Age

Rainbow Energy Center, a coal-based power plant in central North Dakota, will be connected to a carbon capture injection project that is also linked to an ethanol plant, Blue Flint Ethanol. / PHOTO: RAINBOW ENERGY CENTER

September 14, 2023

BY Luke Geiver

North Dakota creates program to help ethanol producers lower their CI scores

By Erin Voegele

May 01, 2025

Policy Business Carbon Capture Sustainable Aviation Fuels

North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong on April 15 signed a bill creating a low-carbon fuels fund that is designed to help the state’s ethanol producers lower the CI of the fuel they produce, which could help producers participate in the SAF market.

By Erin Voegele

April 24, 2025

Carbon Capture Business

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission on April 22 denied Summit Carbon Solution’s pipeline application by a vote of 2 to 1. Summit has expressed disappointment with the decision and announced plans to refile its application.

By Erin Voegele

April 02, 2025

Carbon Capture Operations Business

Rex American Resources Inc. released fourth quarter financial results on March 26, reporting increased ethanol sales volumes and progress with the company’s planned carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois.

By Erin Voegele

March 27, 2025

Carbon Capture Policy Coproducts

The Iowa House of Representatives on March 26 voted 82 to 12 in favor of a bill that aims to ban the use of eminent domain on agricultural land for the development of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline projects.

By Erin Voegele

March 19, 2025

Carbon Capture Business Policy

The Iowa House Judiciary Committee on March 6 voted 20 to 1 to approve a bill that aims to ban the use of eminent domain on agricultural land for the development of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline projects.

2025 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo

June 9-11, 2025

CHI HEALTH CENTER | OMAHA,NEBRASKA

Now in its 41st year, the FEW provides the ethanol industry with cutting-edge content and unparalleled networking opportunities in a dynamic business-to-business environment. As the largest, longest running ethanol conference in the world, the FEW is renowned for its superb programming—powered by Ethanol Producer Magazine —that maintains a strong focus on commercial-scale ethanol production, new technology, and near-term research and development. The event draws more than 2,300 people from over 31 countries and from nearly every ethanol plant in the United States and Canada.View More

Carbon Capture & Storage Summit

June 9-11, 2025

CHI HEALTH CENTER | OMAHA,NEBRASKA

Capturing and storing carbon dioxide in underground wells has the potential to become the most consequential technological deployment in the history of the broader biofuels industry. Deploying effective carbon capture and storage at biofuels plants will cement ethanol and biodiesel as the lowest carbon liquid fuels commercially available in the marketplace. The Carbon Capture & Storage Summit will offer attendees a comprehensive look at the economics of carbon capture and storage, the infrastructure required to make it possible and the financial and marketplace impacts to participating producers.View More