Efficient Producers Up the Ante

By Susanne Retka Schill

PolicyOperations

Proving greenhouse gas reduction to the U.S. EPA now boils down to four numbers.

Spotlight on Illinois: Industry Research Gem

By Holly Jessen

BusinessCoproducts

EPM's Spotlight on Illinois also includes information about work at a research center in that state. The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center opened its doors in 2003.

Spotlight on Illinois: Ethanol History Book

By Holly Jessen

Business

EPM's Spotlight on Illinois digs into the details of the state's past and present ethanol industry, including efforts to write a book about the history of the ethanol industry as a whole. The author is a professor at an Illinois university.

Spotlight on Illinois

By Holly Jessen

Business

Some of the most influential players in gaining federal support for the early ethanol industry have roots in the Land of Lincoln.

Big Demand, Small Supply

By Holly Jessen

FeedstocksMarkets

Even while taking advantage of recent export opportunity to China, the U.S. sorghum industry continues developing long-term markets, like supplying California's ethanol plants with bigger volumes of feedstock.

2014 Corn Crop: Bumper Bushels, Good Quality

By Susanne Retka Schill

Feedstocks

An Ethanol Producer Magazine survey provides a snapshot of the new crop. 

USGC Survey: Top Quality Across Corn Belt

By Susanne Retka Schill

Feedstocks

USGC survey shows overall quality of corn crop is high, with good kernel filling and maturation.

First Pathway Petition Used By Few Grandfathered Corn Plants

By Susanne Retka Schill

FeedstocksPolicy

Only a handful of ethanol plants were approved under the original petition process used by EPA to determined if those grandfathered plants were achieving GHG reductions better than 20 percent compared to baseline gasoline.

The Cellulosic-RIN Revolution

By Katie Fletcher

Biogas

Expanded cellulosic fuel pathways have led to a surge of biogas-based fuel credits, and producers are taking advantage of a significant boost to project economics.

Constructing a Full-Service Vision

By Ron Kotrba

Advanced Biofuels

In the early stages of project development, startup company SG Preston has big plans for renewable diesel and its brand.

Opportunity Still Knocks

By Carla Harper

Pellets

In an industry largely focused on adding capacity in half million ton chunks, two producers acted on an opportunity they saw for far smaller pellet operations.

Pellet Plant VOCs: Best Practices In Control

By Malcolm Swanson

Pellets

Since the EPA decided many years ago that volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions must be controlled, state agencies and pellet plant operations, along with many others, have gone about the task of making it happen.

Eagar to Get Started

By Tim Portz

Power

Concord Blue Eagar LLC, a unique biomass power project that began its project development journey in 2009, is finally poised to break ground this summer, giving a unique conversion technology its first North American foothold.

Trial By Fire

By Katie Fletcher

PowerThermal

A year after firing up a Hurst biomass combined-heat-and-power system to service two critical-use properties in Unity, New Hampshire, Sullivan County attests to the robust unit's reliability.