Reuters: U.S. refiners talk up renewable projects after a year of lousy fuel demand
Feb 03, 2021 – Article here.
Platts: Rising RINs costs pump up US refinery margins
03/02/2021 US refining margins rose last week as higher RINs prices increased the cost of meeting the Renewable Fuel Standard mandate, with RINs for both ethanol and biodiesel breaching the…
BP launches new series – Charting the energy transition
2021 Feb 3 – BP Energy has launched a new series “Charting the energy transition” based on the analysis in BP’s 2020 Energy Outlook . The first in our series…
Statement from U.S. Grains Council, Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association on U.S. Ethanol Appeal Outcome in Peru
2021 February 1 – Release here The Peruvian National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) Tribunal announced on Jan. 29, 2021 that…
Methanol production capacity may quintuple on decarbonized industry transformation: IHS Markit
29 January 2021 – IHS Markit has released a study predicting global methanol production could increase five-fold by 2050, but only if half the total comes from a decarbonized “e-methanol”…
U.S. renewable fuel credits surge to at least 7-yr high: traders
2021 January 29 – Reuters reports RIN credits have surged to a 7 year high here . Renewable fuel (D6) credits for 2021 traded at $1.13 each on Friday. Biomass-based…
Blackrock CEO: Go carbon neutral or get left behind, world’s biggest money manager warns companies
You can read Larry Fink’s 2021 Letter to CEO’s here The Opportunity of the Net Zero Transition There is no company whose business model won’t be profoundly affected by the…
Opinion: GM makes huge mistake in abandoning their vehicle designs that could be powered by renewable fuels
2021 January 28 – GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra has announced that GM will abandon their Internal-Combustion-Engine (ICE) vehicle designs by 2035. This ignores the potential for renewable fuel…
IHS Markit: “Credible Paths to Net-zero”: A bridge to the future. The Race to “Net-Zero” is On.
Susan Farrell, Vice President at IHS Markit, has posted a new graph with Energy-related CO2 emissions for a variety of scenarios exploring bridging paths to net-zero emissions while engaging in…
China bought “roughly 200 million gallons” of U.S. ethanol for first half 2021
1/26/2021 – China has bought “roughly 200 million gallons” of U.S. ethanol for the first half of 2021, Archer Daniels Midland Co CFO Ray Young said. Financial Post article here.