Verbio’s RNG facility at former DuPont cellulosic ethanol plant seen for fall 2021

In Iowa, Energy News reports Verbio is installing an anaerobic digester at the former DuPont cellulosic ethanol plant it purchased in 2018 to mimic the installations it has at existing facilities in Germany. The add-on will use up to 100,000 tons of corn stover annually to produce the equivalent of 20 million gallons of gasoline, but in the form of renewable natural gas. It will should be online by fall 2021 while the corn ethanol facility itself should be operating by 2022 and will produce a maximum of 12 million gallons per year.