Largest green diesel plant completed in US, Diamond Green Diesel: can it make money?

July 1, 2013 |

Renewable diesel – 3 reasons it really, really matters.

As we wrote in “Renewable Diesel Surges” last year:

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1. It’s a drop-in biofuel, requiring no infrastructure change – and there are generally no limits on its distribution except those imposed by cost and geography, and the size of the global diesel pool itself, which could absorb capacity from  hundreds of advanced biofuels projects.

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2. It’s renewable, here now, made at home, and at-scale today. No need to wait for the promise of algal biofuels, or other hot technologies still in the process of commercializing at scale. More than 600 million gallons of capacity already exists – Dynamic Fuels plant in Louisiana, and three from Neste Oil in Rotterdam, Singapore and Finland.

3. In the case of Dynamic Fuels, Diamond Green and Emerald Biofuels, all three projects can utilize animal waste residues – a classic case of turning low-value, noxious feedstocks into high-value molecules.

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In today’s Digest, we look at how the project confirms that existing feedstocks “rule” in advanced biofuels, for now; how scale matters, with up to 11% of US cooking fat will be processed at the plant. Plus, we show charts for the economics of making money from animal fats – all by following the page links below.

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