White House reviews EPA plan to reallocate waived biofuel volumes
The agency's proposal concerns volumes waived via small refinery exemptions under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has delivered a proposed rule to the White House regarding its plan to reallocate 2025 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes waived via small refinery exemptions.
The agency sent the proposal to the Office of Management and Budget on Oct. 2, according to a report.
The move comes during what is described as a banner year for ethanol producers, driven by high RIN prices, low ethanol prices, record blending rates, record production volumes and global market opportunities.
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In related industry news, equipment provider Alfa Laval is beginning the process of fully integrating Desmet, aiming to combine the two organizations as one global partner in process engineering for the oils, fats and biofuel industries.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that an executive order lifting taxes on dyed-diesel will represent about $640 million in combined federal and state savings across approximately 224.6 million harvested acres.
Separately, the U.S. Grains Council recently joined a USDA Agricultural Trade Mission in New Zealand and Australia to meet public and private sector leaders and discuss opportunities for the U.S. agricultural industry to further support the feed and fuel needs of the region.
The biofuels industry is preparing for several major conferences, including the International Biomass Conference & Expo, now in its 20th year.
The event is expected to bring together more than 1000 attendees, 180 exhibitors and 100 speakers from more than 25 countries.
It is the largest gathering of biomass professionals and academics in the world and provides relevant content and unparalleled networking opportunities in a dynamic business-to-business environment.
Co-located with it is the North American Biocarbon Conference, which brings together the full value chain of carbon-negative and carbon-smart technologies in one powerful, integrated event.
By aligning biocarbon producers, biomass power generators, biochar innovators, carbon-removal buyers, project developers, and equipment providers with the broader biomass, biogas, CHP, pellet, and renewable-power industries, this co-located experience creates unmatched cross-sector engagement.
The industry's main ethanol event, the Fuel Ethanol Workshop, is now in its 43rd year.
As the largest, longest running ethanol conference in the world, the FEW provides the ethanol industry with cutting-edge content and unparalleled networking opportunities in a dynamic business-to-business environment.
The event draws more than 2,300 people from over 31 countries and from nearly every ethanol plant in the United States and Canada.
Other upcoming events include the Sustainable Fuels Summit: SAF, Renewable Diesel, and Biodiesel, a premier forum designed for producers to learn about cutting-edge process technologies, innovative techniques, and equipment to optimize existing production.
Attendees will discover efficiencies that save money while increasing throughput and fuel quality.
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.
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.
With files from Ethanol Producer Magazine